NEIL DIGS DEEP TO BURY BURTON
Austrian’s a one-man band as he puts freeze on Tykes
REFEREE: Possession 53% 47% Shots On Target 4 3 Shots Off Target 7 6 Blocked Shots 5 4 Corners 6 4 Fouls Conceded 11 13 Offsides 0 5 Yellow Cards 0 1 Red Cards 0 0 one back for Albion in stoppage time it was Neil’s side who took a deserved three points back to Deepdale.
Neil said: “We looked a lot more threatening when the lads came on. I think up until that point I would argue that we had the best chances in the game.
“We had a great shot from Darnell [Fisher] which the keeper makes a fantastic save to put it out for a corner and Callum [Robinson] has one cleared off the line and we had a couple of decent chances on the edge of the box which maybe we didn’t take full advantage of.” Neil admitted that taking off his leading scorer was a risk but it paid off. He said: “It was a bit of a gamble making the change because we lose the presence of Jordan [Hugill]. Thankfully the players made that work.” Burton boss Nigel Clough rued two refereeing decisions which he said cost his bottom of the table side the game.
The Albion boss, who saw his side slip to a seventh home league defeat in a row said: “Today it came down to decisions. I thought it was a foul for the first goal and we should have had a penalty 30 seconds later.
“Those two decisions dictated the outcome of the game today.” Possession 46% 54% Shots On Target 6 7 Shots Off Target 2 5 Blocked Shots 3 5 Corners 5 7 Fouls Conceded 16 11 Offsides 0 1 Yellow Cards 3 2 Red Cards 0 0