[NoSkillz]

Sun. July 19, 2020 - Preseason Friendly

Preston North End vs. Dover
Deepdale, Preston, UK

We head to Preston in our first road friendly. We start a pretty strong lineup today, with only Luke McCullough and Andrea Rocca missing due to injury. Otherwise we have a pretty full squad for this one.

Dover: 4-4-2 Control
GK - I. Wilke
D - R. Gaucho, L. Stetina, O. Nicholas, S. Loucif
M - A. Bamba, D. Pratley, N. Cairney, G. Bolis
S - G. Gesios, G. Escobar

Preston 2 - 2 Dover
Goals - Arsene Bamba (7.7), Giorgos Gesios (8.2)
Assist - Giorgos Gesios, Neil Cairney (7.0)
Man of the Match - Giorgos Gesios
Other Notables - Salim Loucif (7.4), Renato Gaucho (7.1), Gianluca Bolis (7.2)
Attendance - 4770

We were up 2-0 with about 10 minutes left in the match but after substituting most of our starters, Preston would score twice in a three minute stretch to even things up. Once again, our depth looks very poor and I may have to look for some veterans in the free transfer market.



-- After the match, I get word that one of my transfer targets has accepted his contract but that we need to get a work permit issue sorted out. My scouts don't have much faith that we'll be able to get the permit for Namibian DC Paulus Tjiuoro but we'll find out next week. I'm not optimistic.