Championship duel: Close contest expected between Bristol City and Preston North End

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Competition: England Championship
Competition: Sat 11.September
Match begins: 14:00 (UTC)
Venue: Ashton Gate Stadium (21497 seats)

Bristol City will fight against Preston North End in this Championship match. All you should learn about the fixture is right here!

Insights:
  • Bristol City have yet to win a game at home.
  • Preston North End have lost all their away matches so far.

Both contenders have had time to rest since their previous work day in an official game. Let's aim for an animated fixture!

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Bristol City form and stats

Two Championship home games so far for Bristol City, who are yet to win here at Ashton Gate Stadium. Only 1 point so far.

Bristol are returning here after visiting Cardiff City in a Championship game and winning with a 2-1 scoreline. Andreas Weimann (2) scored the goal(s). The attacker Andreas Weimann was "man of the match" for Bristol with a rating of 8.3/10. Weimann scored two goals and dribled passed the opponent 1 of 1 times.

Ahead of that match, Bristol lost 0-1 at home to Swansea City.

This is expected to be a close game, with Bristol City perhaps considered small favourites due to their home advantage. Looking back at earlier matches similar to this one (expected to be close with Bristol City as a small favourite), we find twelve games. Bristol City has won six of these, drawn one and lost five.

The match schedule is unforgiving for Bristol City as they have a new game in only four days, a Championship match thankfully also at home. Luton Town are visiting.

It's still early days, but we have some goal stats for the Bristol City at home in the league. 1 on target and 2 scored by the opposition; from 2 matches.

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Preston North End form and stats

It's not happening yet for Preston North End on their Championship travels, with zero points from their first 2 away games. Maybe today will be different? Preston has lost their two previous away games and are eager to kill a negative trend in its infancy.

Preston North End are travelling after their nice 3-1 home win in the Championship against Swansea City (placed 20th). Sepp van den Berg got a match rating of 8.04 in that game, top player of the team. Berg scored one goal and dribled passed the opponent 1 of 1 times.

Ahead of that match was the victory versus Morecambe at their stadium, the result 4-2.

As mentioned above, this is an open game with no clear favourite. We have found 18 similar matches played by Preston in our archives, and the results are: eight wins for Preston North End, four draws and six defeats.

There might be some complaints about the fixture list from the Preston manager F. McAvoy as the team has another away game coming up in only three days, this time against Sheffield United.

Preston North End have the goal stats of 1-3 (for/against) from 2 business trips in the league at this early stage of the season.

Head 2 Head

As for the last ten games between these two teams, there's one Bristol victory, three draws and six Preston North End wins. Over/under statistics; five of these games ended with three goals or more, five matches with two goals or less.

Top Goalscorers

BristolA. Weimann
A. Weimann
4 goals
Bristol CityC. Martin
C. Martin
2 goals
Preston North EndE. Riis Jakobsen
E. Riis Jakobsen
2 goals

Bristol City missing players

Preston North End missing players

Bristol City Preston North End
Total Home vs mid Statistics Stat vs mid Away Total
5 2 0 Played P 0 2 5
2 0 0 Won W 0 0 2
1 1 0 Drew D 0 0 0
2 1 0 Lost L 0 2 3
7 1 0 Scored S 0 1 6
7 2 0 Conceded C 0 3 8
100% 100% 0% Over 0.5 O 0.5 0% 100% 100%
80% 50% 0% Over 1.5 O 1.5 0% 50% 60%
60% 0% 0% Over 2.5 O 2.5 0% 50% 60%
20% 0% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 0% 40%
20% 0% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 0% 20%
80% 50% 0% BTTS BTTS 0% 50% 60%
0% 0% 0% Clean Sheets C S 0% 0% 20%
20% 50% 0% Failed to Score F T 0% 50% 20%
 
1.8 1.5 0 Corners for (avg) C F 0 8 5.2
3.2 3 0 Corners against (avg) C A 0 3 2.4
2 3 0 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 0 1 2
0 0 0 Red cards R C 0 0 0
 
10.6 13.5 0 Shots (avg) S ( 0 8 10.2
3.6 3 0 Shots on Target (avg) S O 0 2 4.2
39% 17% 0% Goal Efficiency G E 0% 25% 29%
Key stats in Championship this season:
  • Bristol City have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their matches.
  • Bristol City have won significantly less corners at home than away.
  • Bristol City have yet to win a game at home.
  • Bristol City haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
  • Preston North End have created more than twice as many corners as Bristol City.
  • Preston North End have lost all their away matches so far.
  • Preston North End have won at least twice as many corners as they have conceded.
  • Preston North End have won significantly more corners away than at home.
  • Preston North End haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
Bristol City Last season Preston North End
Total Home   Statistics Stat   Away Total
46 23   Played P   23 46
15 7   Won W   11 18
6 3   Drew D   2 7
25 13   Lost L   10 21
46 18   Scored S   28 49
68 30   Conceded C   32 56
93% 91%   Over 0.5 O 0.5   96% 93%
74% 70%   Over 1.5 O 1.5   70% 63%
46% 30%   Over 2.5 O 2.5   57% 46%
24% 13%   Over 3.5 O 3.5   22% 15%
9% 4%   Over 4.5 O 4.5   13% 9%
46% 35%   BTTS BTTS   43% 33%
22% 26%   Clean Sheets C S   30% 35%
39% 48%   Failed to Score F T   30% 39%
 
3.3 3.9   Corners for (avg) C F   3.7 4.1
5.9 5.5   Corners against (avg) C A   4.5 4.8
1.2 1.3   Yellow cards (avg) Y C   1.3 1.1
2 1   Red cards R C   1 3
 
7.7 8.6   Shots (avg) S (   8.7 9.5
2.5 2.7   Shots on Target (avg) S O   3.3 3.1
39% 30%   Goal Efficiency G E   36% 34%

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 Fulham 5 4 1 0 13 3 3 2 1 0 6 1 2 2 0 0 7 2 10 13
2 West Bromwich Albion 5 4 1 0 12 5 2 2 0 0 7 2 3 2 1 0 5 3 7 13
3 Queens Park Rangers 5 3 2 0 11 5 3 1 2 0 5 3 2 2 0 0 6 2 6 11
4 Huddersfield Town 5 3 1 1 9 7 3 2 0 1 6 5 2 1 1 0 3 2 2 10
5 Stoke City 5 3 1 1 7 6 2 2 0 0 4 2 3 1 1 1 3 4 1 10
6 AFC Bournemouth 5 2 3 0 8 5 2 0 2 0 4 4 3 2 1 0 4 1 3 9
7 Coventry City 5 3 0 2 5 5 2 2 0 0 4 2 3 1 0 2 1 3 0 9
8 Birmingham City 5 2 2 1 7 3 2 0 1 1 0 2 3 2 1 0 7 1 4 8
9 Cardiff City 5 2 2 1 9 6 3 1 1 1 5 4 2 1 1 0 4 2 3 8
10 Blackburn Rovers 5 2 2 1 7 6 2 1 0 1 3 3 3 1 2 0 4 3 1 8
11 Bristol City 5 2 1 2 7 7 2 0 1 1 1 2 3 2 0 1 6 5 0 7
12 Luton Town 5 2 1 2 6 8 3 1 1 1 3 5 2 1 0 1 3 3 -2 7
13 Middlesbrough 5 1 3 1 6 6 3 1 1 1 5 5 2 0 2 0 1 1 0 6
14 Barnsley 5 1 3 1 5 5 3 1 1 1 2 2 2 0 2 0 3 3 0 6
15 Derby County 5 1 3 1 4 4 3 0 3 0 2 2 2 1 0 1 2 2 0 6
16 Preston North End 5 2 0 3 6 8 3 2 0 1 5 5 2 0 0 2 1 3 -2 6
17 Millwall 5 1 2 2 6 8 3 1 1 1 4 4 2 0 1 1 2 4 -2 5
18 Hull City 5 1 1 3 4 7 3 0 1 2 0 4 2 1 0 1 4 3 -3 4
19 Peterborough United 5 1 1 3 4 8 3 1 1 1 4 4 2 0 0 2 0 4 -4 4
20 Swansea City 5 1 1 3 4 8 2 0 1 1 1 3 3 1 0 2 3 5 -4 4
21 Reading 5 1 0 4 7 13 2 1 0 1 4 4 3 0 0 3 3 9 -6 3
22 Blackpool 5 0 2 3 4 8 2 0 0 2 0 3 3 0 2 1 4 5 -4 2
23 Sheffield United 5 0 2 3 1 7 2 0 0 2 1 3 3 0 2 1 0 4 -6 2
24 Nottingham Forest 5 0 1 4 4 8 2 0 0 2 2 4 3 0 1 2 2 4 -4 1

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The English Football League Championship (usually shortened to the Championship) is the second highest division in the English football league system. 24 teams play 46 fixtures from August to May, meeting each other twice. The Championship is the wealthiest second-level division in the world.