{"id":425740,"date":"2026-02-14T18:02:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-14T18:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/425740\/"},"modified":"2026-02-14T18:02:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-14T18:02:08","slug":"preston-north-end-2-2-watford-hornets-earn-point-for-new-boss-ed-still","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/425740\/","title":{"rendered":"Preston North End 2-2 Watford &#8211; Hornets earn point for new boss Ed Still"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Preston wanted a win to climb into the play-off places and instead remain seventh with just one win in their last six matches.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Watford remain 12th \u2013 three points outside the top six \u2013 and Still can take heart from his side&#8217;s point at Deepdale.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Preston took advantage of some slack defending to open the scoring on 19 minutes when Imran Louza failed to track back and Benjamin Whiteman fired in a low cross for Dobbin to sidefoot home his eighth goal of the season at the far post.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Hornets levelled on 55 minutes out of nowhere when Louza broke and fed Maamma, who cut inside and curled the ball into the far corner.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">And two minutes later, they went ahead when Nampalys Mendy found Kwadwo Baah and his cross for Luca Kjerrumgaard went in off the unfortunate Offiah.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Heckingbottom made changes and two of his substitutes combined to haul them level on 70 minutes when Lang, on debut, played a fantastic ball into Osmajic, who buried his shot in the bottom left-hand corner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Preston wanted a win to climb into the play-off places and instead remain seventh with just one win&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":325315,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-425740","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\/425740","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=425740"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425740\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/325315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=425740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=425740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=425740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}