Pre season friendly, Southport 2 Preston North End 1

The first of our six pre season games ended in a 2-1 win against a strong Preston North End side.

With plenty of new faces on show it was a great workout for The Sandgrounders and manager Jim Bentley was full of praise for the lads after the game.

Southport Line Up First Half: Trialist GK, 3 Jack Doyle, 4 Callum Spooner, 5 Harry Flowers, 6 Nat Kinight-Percival, 10 Marcus Carver, 14 Keenan Quansah, 18 Sonny Hilton, 20 Luke Burgess, 22 Sam Minihan, 24 Will Russ

Subs: Tony McMillan, Danny Lloyd, Tunde Owolabi, Tom Moore, Jordan Keane, Fin Heath, Danny Phillikirk and Trialist x 4

All the subs appeared at some stage of the game

19 Mins Carver-1-0 a superb cross in from Knight-Percival was headed home by Carver,

30 Equaliser for Preston

42 Superb save by Trialist keeper keeps the scores level

45 Trialist keeper repeats  it with another excellent save

Half Time 1-1

73 2-1 Southport A cross from a trialist is met by a trialist.

Southport had a chance to increase the lead with a fine header from Tom Moore, from a Danny Lloyd corner, was cleared off the line.

Preston did come close on a few occasions but a combination of good defending, goalkeeping and soem wayward finishing saw the home side able to end the game with a well deserved win.

Attendance 1142, thank you to everyone for your support

The thoughts of Jim