Soccer betting preview: Millwall welcomes Preston North End in what could be a tight duel

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Competition: England Championship
Date: Sat 03.August
Match begins: 14:00 (UTC)
Venue: The Den (20146 seats)

Only the second game in the Championship for these teams and it's all to play for here at The Den as Millwall welcomes Preston North End. Check out this preview!

There’s little time for restitution or working hard at the training pitch these days, with both teams having played their last game less than four days ago.

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Millwall form and stats

The hosts won their first game here at The Den, lifting spirits. Home statistics for Millwall last season were 7 wins, 9 draws and 7 losses from 23 games.

Millwall's last game was hosting Preston North End and winning 1-0. A defeat was the result before that one, 0-1 away at Wigan Athletic.

This is expected to be a close game, with Millwall perhaps considered small favourites due to their home advantage. Looking back at earlier matches similar to this one (expected to be close with Millwall as a small favourite), we find eleven games. Millwall has won 3 of these, drawn 6 and lost 2.

Early season goal statistics from Millwall's 1 home game: 1 goal, 0 conceded.

Last season, Millwall's league statistics were 10 wins, 14 draws and 22 losses, resulting in a 21st position in the Championship. Over these 46 matches they scored 48 goals and conceded 64. Playing at home last season Millwall managed 7-9-7 (win-draw-lost) with 26 goals and 27 conceded.

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Preston North End form and stats

The visitors' first away game ended a defeat. Last season Preston North End had these away match statistics: Played 23; won 8, drew 3 and lost 12.

Preston North End play their second straight away game, having lost the previous one 0-1 to Millwall. Prior to that match, the Preston North End manager A. Neil faced defeat when travelling to Brentford and losing 0-3.

As mentioned above, this is an open game with no clear favourite. We have found nine similar matches played by Preston North End in our archives, and the results are: 2 wins for Preston North End, 1 draw and 6 defeats.

It's early days yet, but Preston North End has scored 0 and conceded 1 goals from their travels so far (1 game).

Let's have a look at how Preston North End performed last season in the Championship: They landed a 14th position in the league table after playing out 16 victories, 13 draws and 17 defeats. In total they scored 67 and conceded 67 goals in these matches. The numbers for away games only are: Won 8 - drew 3 and lost 12 with 26/37 goals scored/conceded.

Head 2 Head

Millwall - Preston North End 1-0 was the story when these teams last met, earlier this season. H2H stats regardless of arena (last ten matches): Millwall 3 wins, 3 draws and Preston North End 4 victories. As for goals, 4 matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), 6 games had two or less.

Top Goalscorers

J. Wallace
1 goals

Millwall missing players

Preston North End missing players

Millwall Preston North End
Total Home Home vs no_table Statistic Away vs top Away Total
1 1 0 Played 0 1 1
1 1 0 Won 0 0 0
0 0 0 Drew 0 0 0
0 0 0 Lost 0 1 1
1 1 0 Scored 0 0 0
0 0 0 Conceded 0 1 1
100% 100% 0% Over 0.5 0% 100% 100%
0% 0% 0% Over 1.5 0% 0% 0%
0% 0% 0% Over 2.5 0% 0% 0%
0% 0% 0% Over 3.5 0% 0% 0%
0% 0% 0% Over 4.5 0% 0% 0%
0% 0% 0% BTTS 0% 0% 0%
100% 100% 0% Clean Sheets 0% 0% 0%
0% 0% 0% Failed To Score 0% 100% 100%
 
8 8 0 Corners For (avg) 0 7 7
7 7 0 Corners Against (avg) 0 8 8
2 2 0 Yellow Cards (avg) 0 3 3
0 0 0 Red Cards 0 0 0
Millwall Last season Preston North End
Total Home   Statistic   Away Total
46 23   Played   23 46
10 7   Won   8 16
14 9   Drew   3 13
22 7   Lost   12 17
48 26   Scored   26 67
64 27   Conceded   37 67
89% 83%   Over 0.5   100% 96%
72% 74%   Over 1.5   78% 78%
43% 48%   Over 2.5   52% 52%
24% 22%   Over 3.5   22% 35%
11% 4%   Over 4.5   17% 22%
54% 57%   BTTS   48% 57%
24% 35%   Clean Sheets   17% 22%
33% 26%   Failed To Score   35% 26%
 
5.6 6.3   Corners For (avg)   4.9 5.1
5.5 4.6   Corners Against (avg)   6.2 5.6
1.7 1.4   Yellow Cards (avg)   1.9 1.6
1 1   Red Cards   4 7
Key stats last season:
  • Millwall have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Preston North End haven’t played a single 0-0 game away.

Millwall
All Championship Club Friendlies Carabao Cup FA Cup
All Home Away
21-07-19 CF Gillingham 1 - 2 Millwall
24-07-19 CF Southend United 2 - 1 Millwall
27-07-19 CF Millwall 3 - 3 Real Sociedad
29-07-19 CF Dover Athletic 4 - 2 Millwall
03-08-19 CH Millwall 1 - 0 Preston North End
10-08-19 CH West Bromwich Albion 14:00 Millwall
13-08-19 CC West Bromwich Albion 19:00 Millwall
17-08-19 CH Millwall 14:00 Sheffield Wednesday
21-08-19 CH Fulham 18:45 Millwall
24-08-19 CH Middlesbrough 14:00 Millwall
Preston North End
All Championship Club Friendlies Carabao Cup FA Cup
All Home Away
13-07-19 CF Fylde 0 - 4 Preston North End
16-07-19 CF Chorley 0 - 2 Preston North End
20-07-19 CF Preston North End 1 - 3 Southampton
26-07-19 CF Fleetwood Town 1 - 0 Preston North End
03-08-19 CH Millwall 1 - 0 Preston North End
10-08-19 CH Preston North End 14:00 Wigan Athletic
13-08-19 CC Bradford City 18:45 Preston North End
17-08-19 CH Swansea City 14:00 Preston North End
21-08-19 CH Preston North End 18:45 Stoke City
24-08-19 CH Preston North End 14:00 Sheffield Wednesday

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A D P
1 Sheffield Wednesday 1 1 0 0 3 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 3 1 2 3
2 Barnsley 1 1 0 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 3
3 Birmingham City 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 1 3
4 Charlton Athletic 1 1 0 0 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 2 1 1 3
5 Millwall 1 1 0 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 3
6 Queens Park Rangers 1 1 0 0 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 2 1 1 3
7 Swansea City 1 1 0 0 2 1 1 1 0 0 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 3
8 West Bromwich Albion 1 1 0 0 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 2 1 1 3
9 Wigan Athletic 1 1 0 0 3 2 1 1 0 0 3 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 3
10 Luton Town 1 0 1 0 3 3 1 0 1 0 3 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
11 Middlesbrough 1 0 1 0 3 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 3 3 0 1
16 Blackburn Rovers 1 0 0 1 1 2 1 0 0 1 1 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0
17 Brentford 1 0 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0
18 Cardiff City 1 0 0 1 2 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 2 3 -1 0
19 Fulham 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 1 -1 0
20 Hull City 1 0 0 1 1 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 1 2 -1 0
21 Nottingham Forest 1 0 0 1 1 2 1 0 0 1 1 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0
22 Preston North End 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 1 -1 0
23 Stoke City 1 0 0 1 1 2 1 0 0 1 1 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0
24 Reading 1 0 0 1 1 3 1 0 0 1 1 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 -2 0

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