Enjoying a 3 point lead in the league table, Preston North End regulars wish to see their team get max points from this match hosting West Bromwich Albion.
- Preston North End have the fewest scored goals (3) in Championship
- West Bromwich Albion have yet to win a game away.
It’s busy days for these teams as both were in action only a few days ago. There’s no rest for the wicked, or in this case; no rest for Preston and West Bromwich Albion.
Preston North End form and stats
The home fans haven’t been spoiled with victories in the Championship this season. Preston North End have only managed 0 wins, 4 draws and 2 losses from their games here at Deepdale.
Times are rough for the home team, having gone 255 minutes without scoring a league goal. Storey was the last player to find the net.
An away draw last time out for Preston North End, facing Sunderland in a game that ended 0-0. Defender Storey got the top score of the team in the match with a rating of 8.0/10. Storey won 7 of 9 duels.
Ahead of that match, Preston North End lost 0-2 at home to Sheffield United.It should be noted that a glance at the 11 latest league games shows that 10 of them qualified as a both teams not to score result (only one or none of the sides scored a goal).
There's a new game coming up fairly quickly for Preston as they are travelling to their away game against Norwich City in the Championship. That match is three days after this one.
Preston North End has huge difficulties finding the net and are scoring on average only once per two home matches in the league: 1 goal from 6 games. Preston have only conceded 4 from their league home games. For more goal stats, check the Statistics tab above.
West Bromwich Albion form and stats
The visitors are W0-D4-L1 on the road this term. That's in the Championship. It's three draws from West Bromwich Albion's last three away games, a decent catch but one that could be so much better.
WBA failed to get anything from their last game, a home match vs Swansea City (placed 10th) that ended with defeat 2-3. Diangana got a match rating of 8.44 in that game, top player of the team. Diangana scored one goal and hit two key passes.
Ahead of that match was the away draw versus Norwich City that ended 1-1.Observe! Both sides have scored at least once in 10 of this club's last 11 league matches.
A quick return to home after this game, as West Bromwich Albion are hosting Luton Town in the Championship only three days away.
West Bromwich Albion have a decent goal production going in their away games, although not fantastic. In 5 league away games 6 goals have been scored. WBA have conceded 7 goals in these away matches.
Head 2 Head
Head-2-head stats last ten meetings: two - two - six (Preston North End wins - draws - West Bromwich Albion wins). As for goals, four matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), six had two or less.
Top Goalscorers
  K. Ahearne-Grant 3 goals |  J. Wallace 3 goals |  D. O'Shea 2 goals |
Preston North End missing players
West Bromwich Albion missing players
| Preston North End | West Bromwich Albion | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 11 | 6 | 1 | Played | P | 1 | 5 | 11 |
| 2 | 0 | 0 | Won | W | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 7 | 4 | 1 | Drew | D | 1 | 4 | 7 |
| 2 | 2 | 0 | Lost | L | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 3 | 1 | 0 | Scored | S | 1 | 6 | 17 |
| 4 | 4 | 0 | Conceded | C | 1 | 7 | 17 |
| 45% | 50% | 0% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 91% |
| 18% | 33% | 0% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 100% | 91% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 0% | 40% | 45% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 20% | 36% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 27% |
| 9% | 17% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 100% | 100% | 91% |
| 73% | 50% | 100% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 0% | 9% |
| 73% | 83% | 100% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 0% | 9% |
| 5.4 | 6 | 4 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 2 | 3.6 | 6.7 |
| 5.6 | 4.3 | 1 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 3 | 4.2 | 3.2 |
| 2 | 1.3 | 1 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2 | 1.4 | 1.6 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 11.3 | 13.8 | 20 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 7 | 11.6 | 14.8 |
| 3.8 | 4.2 | 6 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 2 | 2.8 | 4.5 |
| 7% | 4% | 0% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 50% | 43% | 34% |
| 13.4 | 10.2 | 7 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 8 | 10.8 | 8.8 |
| 2.5 | 2.7 | 1 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 2 | 2.6 | 3 |
- All of West Bromwich Albion's away-matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
- Preston North End have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored at home.
- Preston North End have the fewest conceded goals (4) in Championship
- Preston North End have the fewest conceded goals in the second half (1) in Championship
- Preston North End have the fewest matches over the total-line (0) in Championship
- Preston North End have the fewest scored goals (3) in Championship
- Preston North End have the fewest scored goals in the first half (2) in Championship
- Preston North End have the fewest scored goals in the second half (1) in Championship
- Preston North End have the most clean sheets (8) in Championship
- Preston North End have the most matches under the total-line (11) in Championship
- Preston North End have yet to win a game at home.
- West Bromwich Albion have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their away matches.
- West Bromwich Albion have scored in all their away matches so far.
- West Bromwich Albion have scored more than double the goals of Preston North End.
- West Bromwich Albion have won at least twice as many corners as they have conceded.
- West Bromwich Albion have won significantly less corners away then at home.
- West Bromwich Albion have yet to win a game away.
- West Bromwich Albion haven’t played a single 0-0 game away.
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Sheffield United | 11 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 20 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 12 | 2 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 8 | 4 | 14 | 24 |
| 2 | Norwich City | 11 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 17 | 9 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 12 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 8 | 23 |
| 3 | Reading | 11 | 7 | 0 | 4 | 13 | 15 | 6 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 11 | 6 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 9 | -2 | 21 |
| 4 | Burnley | 11 | 4 | 6 | 1 | 18 | 11 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 9 | 6 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 9 | 5 | 7 | 18 |
| 5 | Queens Park Rangers | 11 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 16 | 12 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 5 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 9 | 7 | 4 | 18 |
| 6 | Blackburn Rovers | 11 | 6 | 0 | 5 | 13 | 14 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 9 | 6 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 8 | -1 | 18 |
| 7 | Sunderland | 11 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 16 | 11 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 4 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 10 | 7 | 5 | 16 |
| 8 | Luton Town | 11 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 13 | 10 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 6 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 16 |
| 9 | Wigan Athletic | 10 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 11 | 11 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 8 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 8 | 3 | 0 | 16 |
| 10 | Swansea City | 11 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 13 | 14 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 8 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 6 | -1 | 15 |
| 11 | Rotherham United | 10 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 12 | 8 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 11 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 14 |
| 12 | Bristol City | 11 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 20 | 18 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 9 | 5 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 11 | 13 | 2 | 14 |
| 13 | Watford | 10 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 11 | 11 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 6 | 5 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 0 | 14 |
| 14 | Preston North End | 11 | 2 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | -1 | 13 |
| 15 | Birmingham City | 11 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 9 | 11 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 6 | -2 | 13 |
| 16 | Millwall | 11 | 4 | 1 | 6 | 12 | 16 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 9 | 6 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 10 | -4 | 13 |
| 17 | Stoke City | 10 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 11 | 11 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 7 | 0 | 12 |
| 18 | Cardiff City | 11 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 8 | 12 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 9 | -4 | 12 |
| 19 | Blackpool | 11 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 10 | 16 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 10 | -6 | 11 |
| 20 | Hull City | 11 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 11 | 23 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 7 | 11 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 12 | -12 | 11 |
| 21 | West Bromwich Albion | 11 | 1 | 7 | 3 | 17 | 17 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 11 | 10 | 5 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 6 | 7 | 0 | 10 |
| 22 | Middlesbrough | 11 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 13 | 16 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 8 | 7 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 9 | -3 | 10 |
| 23 | Huddersfield Town | 10 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 10 | 16 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 7 | 7 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 9 | -6 | 7 |
| 24 | Coventry City | 8 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 8 | 13 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 7 | 12 | -5 | 6 |
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