Bristol City 2-0 Preston North End: result and report

Championship · Saturday 16 January 2021

Result

Bristol City 2-0 Preston North End

Championship · Saturday 16 January 2021, 15:00 UTC · half-time 1-0

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Bristol City 2-0 Preston North End: match report

Bristol City beat Preston North End 2-0 in the Championship on Saturday 16 January 2021. It was 1-0 at half-time.

Famara Diédhiou opened the scoring in the 8th minute. Bristol City's goals came from Famara Diédhiou (8') and Zak Vyner (77'). Preston North End did not score.

Discipline: Bristol City received 1 yellow card; Preston North End received 1 yellow card.

Going into the game Bristol City were 10th on 33 points from 22 and Preston North End 12th on 32 points from 23. Bristol City went on to finish that season 19th with 51 points, and Preston North End 13th with 61.

Bristol City lined up in a 4-4-2 and Preston North End in a 4-2-3-1. The highest match rating in our data went to Tomas Kalas of Bristol City (8.1), ahead of Alfie Mawson (8.0).

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 0 Bristol City wins, 3 draws and 7 for Preston North End.

Data as of 4 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 8'Goal · Famara DiédhiouBristol City · 1-0
  • 61'Yellow card · Kasey PalmerBristol City
  • 77'Goal · Zak VynerBristol City · 2-0
  • 83'Yellow card · Darnell FisherPreston North End

Head-to-head

10 meetings: Bristol City 0, draws 3, Preston North End 7.

Team news

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Bristol City line-up (4-4-2)

Daniel Bentley, Jack Hunt, Tomas Kalas, Alfie Mawson, Tommy Rowe, Hakeeb Adelakun, Zak Vyner, Ádám Nagy, Kasey Palmer, Famara Diédhiou, Chris Martin

Preston North End line-up (4-2-3-1)

Daniel Iversen, Darnell Fisher, Paul Huntington, Ben Davies, Andrew Hughes, Alan Browne, Ben Whiteman, Tom Barkhuizen, Daniel Johnson, Scott Sinclair, Sean Maguire