Preston North End 2-3 Brentford: result and report

Championship · Saturday 28 October 2017

Result

Preston North End 2-3 Brentford

Championship · Saturday 28 October 2017, 14:00 UTC · half-time 1-1

Preston North End · Brentford · Championship predictions

Preston North End 2-3 Brentford: match report

Preston North End lost to Brentford 2-3 in the Championship on Saturday 28 October 2017. The half-time score was 1-1.

Nico Yennaris opened the scoring in the 25th minute. Preston North End's goals came from Sean Maguire (41') and Tom Barkhuizen (66'). Brentford scored through Nico Yennaris (25'), R. Sawyers (56') and O. Watkins (69').

Discipline: Preston North End received 3 yellow cards; Brentford received no yellow cards.

Going into the game Preston North End were 8th on 21 points from 13 and Brentford 18th on 13 points from 13. Preston North End went on to finish that season 7th with 73 points, and Brentford 9th with 69.

Preston North End lined up in a 4-2-3-1 and Brentford in a 4-3-3. The highest match rating in our data went to Ollie Watkins of Brentford (8.2), ahead of Calum Woods (7.3).

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 1 Preston North End win, 0 draws and 3 for Brentford.

Data as of 4 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 2'Yellow card · Sean MaguirePreston North End
  • 25'Goal · Nico YennarisBrentford · 0-1
  • 25'Yellow card · Paul HuntingtonPreston North End
  • 41'Goal · Sean MaguirePreston North End · 1-1
  • 56'Goal · R. SawyersBrentford · 1-2
  • 66'Goal · Tom BarkhuizenPreston North End · 2-2
  • 69'Goal · O. WatkinsBrentford · 2-3
  • 82'Yellow card · C. WoodsPreston North End

Head-to-head

4 meetings: Preston North End 1, draws 0, Brentford 3.

Team news

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

Chris Maxwell, Darnell Fisher, Calum Woods, Paul Huntington, Josh Earl, Ben Pearson, Daniel Johnson, Sean Maguire, Tom Barkhuizen, Callum Robinson, Jordan Hugill

Brentford line-up (4-3-3)

Daniel Bentley, Andreas Bjelland, John Egan, Josh Clarke, Henrik Dalsgaard, Nico Yennaris, Islom Ismoilov, Ryan Woods, Florian Jozefzoon, Ollie Watkins, Lasse Vibe