Bristol City 2-0 Preston North End: Diedhiou and Vyner seal points for Robins
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Famara Diedhiou leapt above everyone else to head in for Bristol City
Goals from Famara Diedhiou and Zak Vyner gave Bristol City victory over Preston North End in a hard-fought Championship clash.
Diedhiou put City in front after rising above everyone else to guide Tommy Rowe's curled corner past the diving Daniel Iverson inside the first 10 minutes at Ashton Gate.
Preston piled pressure on the hosts early in the second half before Vyner sealed the three points for Dean Holden's side with a mis-hit volley into the bottom corner.
Before Vyner's first goal for the Robins, Preston came close to scoring an equaliser when Paul Huntington's looping header clipped the top of the bar from debutant Ben Whiteman's corner.
But the Lilywhites failed to really test home keeper Daniel Bentley, with their only shot on target resulting from a Scott Sinclair strike straight at the keeper shortly before the interval.
Victory for the Robins moves them up one place to ninth in the table, four points outside the play-off places, while Preston drop to 13th.
The result also ended a 15-game unbeaten run for Preston against City, which had stretched back to November 2013.
Bristol City manager Dean Holden told BBC Radio Bristol:
"(I am) really pleased with a clean sheet, really pleased with two goals at home against a tough opponent.
"I've just been told it's been quite a while since we beat them. They always give you problems with the physicality and energy that they play with and I thought we handled that really well today.
"We knew they would come out on the front foot a little more in that second period. We really stepped on it in that final 20 minutes of the game and seen it out pretty comfortably.
"It sets us up nicely to go to Norwich and to try and put in a similar performance."
Preston North End manager Alex Neil told BBC Radio Lancashire:
"I didn't think there was a great deal in the game in general throughout the 90 minutes.
"I thought the first 20 minutes we didn't get started really. To be fair to them I thought they were really quite aggressive to start with.
"They get the goal from a set play which is extremely disappointing. Right in the middle of box, we should be clearing that.
"For 30 minutes in the second half we were completely dominant, totally dominant in the game and we didn't create enough. I didn't think we deserved to lose but we certainly didn't do enough to win."
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