{"id":336962,"date":"2025-12-26T18:20:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-26T18:20:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/336962\/"},"modified":"2025-12-26T18:20:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-26T18:20:10","slug":"stoke-city-0-0-preston-north-end-potters-frustrating-run-continues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/336962\/","title":{"rendered":"Stoke City 0-0 Preston North End: Potters&#8217; frustrating run continues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Stoke have lost a significant amount of momentum, with six defeats in their past nine games, and there was frustration inside the ground at the final whistle after another home game delivered so little.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Preston, whose manager Heckingbottom was watching from the stands as he served a touchline suspension, had the better of the early chances, with Thierry Small&#8217;s effort at the end of a lovely flowing move smothered brilliantly at close range by keeper Viktor Johansson in the Stoke goal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Small had another shot saved by the Swede shortly afterwards, but those turned out to be the visitors&#8217; best moments.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Stoke&#8217;s on-loan striker Divin Mubama created a great opening for himself from Mohammed Lawal&#8217;s centre but, after doing the hard work with his first touch, he hit the side netting from a tightening angle.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Potters defender Ashley Philips then had an effort from the edge of the area deflected over the bar by Odeluga Offiah, while Jordan Storey headed straight at Johansson with Preston&#8217;s one notable chance of the second period.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Sorba Thomas went close to breaking the deadlock with a curling shot from the left side of the area late on &#8211; Iversen pulled off an excellent save to his left to tip the ball around the post.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Stoke have lost a significant amount of momentum, with six defeats in their past nine games, and there&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":336963,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-336962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336962","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=336962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336962\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/336963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=336962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=336962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=336962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}