Derby County v Preston North End team news: Unchanged PNE side for Boxing Day visit to Pride Park

That was not too much of a surprise bearing in mind they beat Bristol City last time out and had been able to take advantage of an eight-day gap in the fixture list.

The single change in the match day squad was Ryan Ledson's return to the bench after a calf injury, the midfielder replacing Jacob Holland-Wilkinson among the substitutes.

Derby being a in tier 3 meant an empty stadium, that seeming even stranger on Boxing Day than in recent months.

Derby: Marshall, Byrne, Wisdom, Clarke, Buchanan, Shinnie, Bielik, Jozwiak, Knight, Waghorn, Kazim-Richards. Subs: Roos, Forsyth, Bird, Ibe, Sibley, Evans, Holmes, Watson, Hector-Ingram.

PNE: Rudd, Fisher, Huntington, Davies, Earl, Browne, Gallagher, Barkhuizen, Johnson, Sinclair, Maguire. Subs: Ripley, Bayliss, Harrop, Storey, Rafferty, Ledson, Riis, Stockley, O'Reilly.

Referee: Darren Bond (Lancashire)

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