One change from the side that beat Sheff Utd, as Bradley Wright-Phillips is left out due to an injury, and Saganowski partners Rasiak up front to give us a Polish strike force .

Well somethings not right at the shop!! Unless a radical review of our match performance is undertaken soon, we can forget anything to do with promotion as we fight and try and stay above the bottom three.

With Preston only scoring one goal at home this season it looked like  a nip and tuck routine for the Saints and both sides looked the part until a penalty on 57 mins that was extremely controversial changed things. Phil Ifil furiously denied any wrong doing as he looked to be pushed onto the ball by  Gallagher. Davis made a superb save but Carter drilled home the rebound.  Although two down after Preston got an early lead the Saints looked the part through Ifils power runs and dangerous crosses into the box.

This had the desired effect in the first half as In stoppage time he flicked the ball using the outside of his boot into the box and both saganowski and Jones chasing it as it passed the keeper. Although Saganowski claimed it, it was creditied as an own goal to Jones. 

The second half was much of the same with the penalty changing things about a bit. Saints found it difficult to control the game and lost all of their previous fluency and were regularly hit on the break.  On 73 minutes they were hit again  down the left with a pin point cross into the box  with Sedgewick heading just inside the left post.

Seven minutes from time Daillys backpass confused both Thomas and Davis as each one left it for the other and Agyemang nipped in and lofted it over the stranded Davis. Agyemang then did the double on the Saints as he broke the offside trap from the left to claim his second and Prestons 5th. They finished the game in an awful ragged state to the dismay of the 300 or so away fans.

With promotion prospects West Brom visiting St Marys on saturday it will be interesting to see who rallies the troops and what changes will be made to stop what could be the start of a potentially disastrous run. 

Preston: Lonergan, Jones, Mawene, Chilvers, Hill, Sedgwick, Nicholls, Davidson, Carter, Hawley, Gallagher. Subs: Agyemang, St Ledger, L Neal, C Neal, Mellor. 

Saints: Davis, Ifil, Thomas, Dailly, Ostlund, Dyer, Safri, Viafara, Surman, Rasiak, Saganowski. Subs: John, Wright, Euell, Idiakez, Bialkowski.

Referee: Graham Laws

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