{"id":586713,"date":"2025-11-22T11:55:15","date_gmt":"2025-11-22T11:55:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/586713\/"},"modified":"2025-11-22T11:55:15","modified_gmt":"2025-11-22T11:55:15","slug":"preston-1-2-blackburn-rovers-it-was-on-us-paul-heckingbottom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/586713\/","title":{"rendered":"Preston 1-2 Blackburn Rovers: &#8216;It was on us&#8217; &#8211; Paul Heckingbottom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Paul Heckingbottom says his Preston North End side were responsible for their defeat by Lancashire rivals Blackburn Rovers. <\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Lilywhites could have gone second in the Championship if they had taken the three points, but instead ended the evening fourth.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Heckingbottom told BBC Radio Lancashire: &#8220;Sometimes you come off having given your best and you&#8217;re really pleased with how you played and you can hold your hands up but today, I think it was on us.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The two stand out things are when you&#8217;re on top and you miss your chances and then you give two set play goals away, you&#8217;re going to have to do something special to win the game. So, yeah, disappointed with those two elements really.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">North End are away to Watford on Tuesday evening before travelling to Sheffield Wednesday next Saturday for the final game of the month.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sounds\/play\/p0mj3whx\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">You can listen to more from Paul Heckingbottom on BBC Sounds.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Paul Heckingbottom says his Preston North End side were responsible for their defeat by Lancashire rivals Blackburn Rovers.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":586714,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5311],"tags":[49,978,659],"class_list":{"0":"post-586713","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-states","8":"tag-united-states","9":"tag-us","10":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115593224053297134","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=586713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586713\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/586714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=586713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=586713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=586713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}