Monday, 1 December 2014

Bristol City 0 Preston North End 1

Callum Robinson has two targets: Silverware for Preston and a hand in Kevin Davies's 150th career goal.

Villa rookie Robinson, 19, scored his fifth goal in seven starts to keep the Lilywhites promotion push on track and condemn City to only their second reverse this season before revealing:

"I'm only a young player learning my trade and when you have class acts like Kevin around it makes it easier. He's a gentleman too."

Former Bolton and England striker Davies fluffed his lines when Robinson set him up in the second half, but Robinson said:

"It'll come, I have no doubts. When it does I want to be there to play my part. He had a chance of it last week In Cup against Havant, but he let me take a penalty for my hat trick instead. That says a lot about him."

Robinson extended a one month loan deal at the beginning of the campaign until January and said:

"If Villa don't need me it makes sense for me to stay at Preston and help them try and get promoted. That would be brilliant for someone of my age. I'm already full of confidence and I've learned so much playing at this level.

"Obviously I want to play at the highest level possible, but I'm loving every minute at the moment."

Delighted North End boss Simon Grayson joked:

"It'll be nice if we can go up and Bristol can follow us. They have a great side. It was a case of two good teams going head to head."

Manager Steve Cotterill shrugged off City's second successive defeat and said:

"All in all, I'm very proud of these players. I'll take the second half performance and the first fifteen from the first half. We'll get these points back by the end of the season."



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