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‘Not far from perfection!!’ | Palmer adds FOURTH to Blues’ goal haul
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Less than two months ago, on 17 January, Preston were in the play-off places in sixth while Norwich were just inside the relegation zone – but the diverging fortunes of both clubs since have been striking.
While Norwich topped the form standings for the previous 10 games – taking 24 points from a possible 30 – only already-relegated Sheffield Wednesday had taken fewer than Preston’s haul of six points during
Bristol City head coach Gerhard Struber told BBC Radio Bristol:
“We know what we had a week ago and I think today was reaction time and the boys showed a really good face against a team that had a really big momentum and many, many wins.
“The win and the performance was on a really high level otherwise you could not win here.
“The resilience was on a really high
Are in-form Wrexham really dreaming of a fourth promotion?
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Derby County boss John Eustace:
“I think we deserved at least a point, the way we started the game was not great, and going a goal down was poor.
“We grew into the first half, we scored a great goal and felt very comfortable, I thought we were very strong.
“Then we started the second half like we started the first half. We wanted to go out there, be on
Dobbin had the first opportunity for the in-form visitors – who have lost just one of their past 10 games – but his strike from range went just wide of the top corner.
Minutes later, though, Dobbin did break the deadlock, fed by midfielder Jordan Thompson – who pounced on a loose kick out by O’Leary – before finishing calmly one-on-one with the City keeper.
Robins defender Rob Atkinson strode
There was symmetry to a contest that featured hosts going into the game a point and a place outside the relegation zone and visitors who started a point and a place outside the top six.
Yet there was little balance on the field in an opening half that saw Bristol City charge out of the blocks and Pompey struggle to get any sort of a foothold.
Bristol City might have
Southampton fired themselves in front after 20 minutes.
Manning whipped in a curling free-kick from the left and Harwood-Bellis headed past Asmir Begovic.
The Foxes nearly brought themselves level immediately after as Gavin Bazunu had to scramble across his goal to keep out a header by Jordan James.
Saints’ fine start then got even better when in-form forward Azaz was played into the box by Scienza and bent in a
Hull went into the game without suspended Matt Crooks, while full-back Lewis Coyle made his 200th appearance for the club.
Ipswich boss Kieran McKenna, meanwhile, rotated almost his entire midfield and attack, making six changes to the starting line-up from their goalless draw with Wrexham at the weekend.
After a fairly nondescript opening 10 minutes, Hull’s Joe Gelhardt demonstrated the confidence of a player with six goals in his previous
Crystal Palace powered into the Premier League’s top four as they condemned new Wolves boss Rob Edwards to defeat in his first game in charge.
Daniel Munoz and Yeremy Pino struck in the second half to move the Eagles up to fourth with a deserved victory at Molineux.
Oliver Glasner’s side were a class above the hosts with bottom club Wolves’ survival chances looking bleaker by the game, despite Edwards’
