DIZZY MUZZY HAS PRESTON FEELING LOW

MUSTAPHA CARAYOL put in a match-winning performance for Ipswich – despite suffering from a tummy bug.

The Gambia winger (above, right) powered through a weak tackle to slide in the game’s only goal after 21 minutes to sabotage Preston’s promotion hopes.

Carayol was terrorising the home defence, but boss Mick McCarthy replaced the forward at half-time despite his protests.

McCarthy said: “I never thought for one minute he’d play the whole game having had sickness and diarrhoea in the week. “We’d have got another 15 minutes out of him, but he’d run his race. They had stuck Josh Harrop on him midfield, so it was a tactical one as much as a physical one. “No, he didn’t want to come off, but I said to him, ‘Muzzy, how are you?’ and he said, ‘I’m OK’. It wasn’t a ‘I’m brilliant, gaffer, don’t take me off’.

“He used the wrong terminology to me. He was coming off anyway.”

Preston have not won in four games to sit in ninth, derailing their Premier League hopes.

But left-back Greg Cunningham said: “It was just one of those days where nothing really fell for us and every second ball seemed to drop to them, whereas nine out of 10 times we’re there to keep the press on.

“It was a bad day at the office, especially on the back of some good performances.”