Preston North End 3-1 Norwich City: result and report

Championship · Wednesday 13 February 2019

Result

Preston North End 3-1 Norwich City

Championship · Wednesday 13 February 2019, 19:45 UTC · half-time 2-0

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Preston North End 3-1 Norwich City: match report

Preston North End defeated Norwich City 3-1 in the Championship on Wednesday 13 February 2019. The half-time score was 2-0.

Ben Davies opened the scoring in the 2nd minute. Preston North End's goals came from Ben Davies (2'), Paul Gallagher (24', penalty) and Sean Maguire (69'). Norwich City scored through Teemu Pukki (90+3').

Discipline: Preston North End received 3 yellow cards; Norwich City received 2 yellow cards.

Going into the game Preston North End were 14th on 40 points from 31 and Norwich City 1st on 60 points from 31. Preston North End went on to finish that season 15th with 61 points, and Norwich City 1st with 94.

Preston North End lined up in a 4-2-3-1 and Norwich City in a 4-2-3-1. The highest match rating in our data went to Declan Rudd of Preston North End (9.0), ahead of Paul Gallagher (8.6).

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 2 Preston North End wins, 4 draws and 4 for Norwich City.

Data as of 4 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 2'Goal · Ben DaviesPreston North End · 1-0
  • 24'Penalty goal · Paul GallagherPreston North End · 2-0
  • 32'Yellow card · Ben PearsonPreston North End
  • 33'Missed penalty · M. StiepermannNorwich City
  • 36'Yellow card · Christoph ZimmermannNorwich City
  • 69'Goal · Sean MaguirePreston North End · 3-0
  • 71'Yellow card · Lukas NmechaPreston North End
  • 90+3'Goal · Teemu PukkiNorwich City · 3-1
  • 90+4'Yellow card · M. AaronsNorwich City
  • 90+4'Yellow card · Declan RuddPreston North End

Head-to-head

10 meetings: Preston North End 2, draws 4, Norwich City 4.

Team news

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

Declan Rudd, Darnell Fisher, Ben Davies, Jordan Storey, Andrew Hughes, Ben Pearson, Alan Browne, Paul Gallagher, Tom Barkhuizen, Brad Potts, Sean Maguire

Norwich City line-up (4-2-3-1)

Tim Krul, Ben Godfrey, Christoph Zimmermann, Jamal Lewis, Max Aarons, Emiliano Buendía, Marco Stiepermann, Tom Trybull, Onel Hernández, Alexander Tettey, Teemu Pukki