Summary

  • Atkinson double gives Bristol City much-needed win

  • Preston had levelled through Hughes

  • Robins up to 11th, one point behind Preston

  • Visitors miss chance to move into play-offs

Live Reporting

Sophie Hurcom

  1. Bristol City 0-0 Preston North End

    Not a huge amount of action in front of goal to speak of at all as we approach half-time.

    We've only had one shot on target between the two teams.

  2. Bristol City 0-0 Preston North End

    Antoine Semenyo slides the ball in to Tommy Conway in the box, but Conway's effort is gathered fairly comfortably by Freddie Woodman.

  3. 'Not a goal fest'

    Bristol City 0-0 Preston North End

    Chris Honor
    Former Bristol City defender, BBC Radio Bristol

    This wasn't going to be a goal fest but at the moment Bristol City seem to be running out of ideas, and Preston are slow going forward and very defensive minded.

  4. Bristol City 0-0 Preston North End

    After a bit of a lively opening 10 minutes, the fizz has gone out of this match quite a bit.

    Neither team can really get much of a grip on proceedings to take control.

    Preston are so solid in defence, while Bristol City are clearly lacking that flow up front to break them down.

  5. Bristol City 0-0 Preston North End

    Glen Little
    Former Burnley winger on BBC Radio Lancashire

    The way it dropped for Sean Maguire, it was worth a go.

    I don't think Max O'Leary was ever really in any kind of trouble, though.

  6. Bristol City 0-0 Preston North End

    Preston's Sean Maguire takes a shot from distance and is trying to dip it under the bar, with Max O'Leary slightly off his line, but it's too high.

  7. Bristol City 0-0 Preston North End

    Alex Scott gets called up for pushing Sean Mcguire, although the Bristol City player isn't happy as he says his shirt was pulled first.

    It means Preston get another free-kick, this time on the edge of the box deep on the right.

    It comes all the way through to Ben Whiteman at the back, yet his shot is blocked and puts Bristol City on a break on the counter attack.

  8. YELLOW CARD

    Bristol City 0-0 Preston North End

    Jay Dasilva becomes the first Bristol City player to go into the book after challenge on Ali McCann, and the Bristol City midfielder doesn't look happy about it.

    It gives Preston a free-kick just inside their half and while they send it towards the box it comes to nothing.

  9. Bristol City 0-0 Preston North End

    Bristol City v PrestonPA Media

    There are a lot of empty seats at Ashton Gate tonight, which you can partly understand considering the run of results Bristol City have been on of late and the fact it's a Wednesday night fixture.

    Still, the atmosphere so far is fairly muted...

  10. Bristol City 0-0 Preston North End

    Alex Scott's free-kick comes in to the near post and it gets over the wall but doesn't get further than the head of Ben Whiteman, who clears the ball away.

  11. YELLOW CARD

    Bristol City 0-0 Preston North End

    Jay Dasilva wins a free-kick in a dangerous area right on the edge of the box after a tussle with Liam Lindsay, the latter who is shown a yellow card by the referee.

    He does well to make something out of nothing, really, getting goalside of the defender before being brought down.

  12. Preston hard to break down

    Bristol City 0-0 Preston North End

    Glen Little
    Former Burnley winger on BBC Radio Lancashire

    Defensively you can see why Preston are keeping clean sheets.

    They're good at reading the game and Liam Lindsay in particular looks strong.

  13. Bristol City 0-0 Preston North End

    Preston are slowly growing in confidence and Sean Maguire was almost in on goal then.

    Daniel Johnson feeds a lovely pass through into the box and Maguire breaks the offside trap to run onto it.

    Max O'Leary comes off his line first however and covers the ball before the Ireland international gets to it.

  14. Bristol City 0-0 Preston North End

    Zak Vyner fires a ball in from the right across the face of goal, there's just none of his team-mates there to do anything with it.

  15. Bristol City 0-0 Preston North End

    We know Preston aren't the most active in front of goal, but so far they've seemed happy to soak up all the pressure from Bristol City in this opening 20 minutes.

    The Robins midfield quartet of Sykes, Weimann, Scott and Dasilva have comfortably been controlling things.

  16. Bristol City 0-0 Preston North End

    Preston finally do get the ball into the Bristol City box, as Sean Maguire brings a chip over the top down and chests it to Andrew Hughes.

    But it's blocked well by the home defence and comes to nothing.

  17. 'Bristol City have belief'

    Bristol City 0-0 Preston North End

    Chris Honor
    Former Bristol City defender, BBC Radio Bristol

    There's a belief already that we didn't see on Saturday and a confidence.

    There's a way that Bristol City are playing that we just didn't see at the weekend.

  18. Bristol City 0-0 Preston North End

    Bristol City have really started this match with intensity, Preston just can't get near the ball.

    They get another dangerous ball into the box and Tommy Conway offloads to Andi Weimann, but the Austrian's shot is blocked as it goes goalwards.

  19. Bristol City 0-0 Preston North End

    Antoine SemenyoRex Features

    Antoine Semenyo was almost played in on goal by Joe Williams but couldn't quite get on the end of the pass.

    It all came from a lovely bit of play from Alex Scott, whose ball through midfield cuts right through the Preston team.

  20. Bristol City 0-0 Preston North End

    Preston have barely been out of their half so far in this opening few minutes.

    They finally get a chance to get hold of the ball a bit but it's stolen straight back by Alex Scott, who wins the Robins another free-kick.