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Preston manager Paul Heckingbottom:
“I have got a headache, my voice has gone, I think I had a mini-heart attack second half. It was hard work.
“I am probably over the moon with it for all the wrong reasons. As good as we were Saturday and rightly got all the plaudits, we have won a game today where we weren’t at our best.
“We have had to be really resilient
The visitors started the brighter and Aaron Ramsey’s shot from range tested Millwall keeper Max Crocombe early on.
At the other end, Leicester keeper Stolarczyk used his legs smartly to keep out the in-form Azeez.
Just before the break, Casper De Norre dropped deep on halfway and played a long ball up to Azeez, who left Luke Thomas floundering before lashing the ball into the back of the net –
Brentford heaped further misery on Premier League champions Liverpool with a fully deserved victory at Gtech Community Stadium.
An emphatic midweek triumph at Eintracht Frankfurt in the Champions League ended a sequence of four successive defeats in all competitions for the Reds – but it proved to be a false dawn as the weaknesses that have plagued Arne Slot’s side this season surfaced yet again.
Michael Kayode’s lethal long throw
Since being thrashed 7-0 by Nottingham Forest at the beginning of February, Brighton have beaten Chelsea – in the Premier League and FA Cup – Southampton and now Bournemouth to reignite their hopes of qualifying for Europe next season.
Seagulls boss Fabian Hurzeler made two changes to the team that began the 4-0 win at St Mary’s on Saturday, restoring fit-again Pervis Estupinan to the XI and handing a first
Everton scored twice in the opening six minutes, including the fourth fastest goal in Premier League history, to thrash woeful Leicester City at Goodison Park.
The match was billed as a crucial bottom-of-the-table meeting but the Toffees’ brilliant first half helped send them 10 points clear of the relegation zone as the Foxes remain in real trouble, one point above the bottom three.
Abdoulaye Doucoure latched on to Jordan
Football, like life, has a nasty habit of bringing you back down to earth and it is very rare the landing is a soft one.
Eighteen months ago Coventry City and Luton Town came face-to-face at Wembley with a place in the Premier League at stake.
The Hatters took the honours and then plenty of plaudits for the way they came so close to staying in the top flight.
A UK-based investment firm, backed by two ‘western billionaires’, has become the fourth party to make a bid to buy Everton.
Vici Private Finance began initial talks with Toffees owner Farhad Moshiri earlier this year and has now made an all-equity offer without taking on additional debt.
The firm has provided proof of cash, believed to be in the region of £1bn, which allows the capability of getting a deal