The Dane missed Saturday’s game at Deepdale

Preston North End boss Paul Heckingbottom has explained why midfielder Mads Frokjaer was missing from the squad on Saturday.

The Lilywhites drew 1-1 against Wrexham with substitute Harrison Armstrong scoring the equaliser on 81 minutes. Frokjaer netted the winning goal last weekend in their 3-2 win at Sheffield Wednesday, but couldn’t follow that performance up due to a knock picked up in training. However, Heckingbottom is confident that Saturday’s outing is the only one he will miss.

“He felt his hamstring on Tuesday”, said Heckingbottom, “He’ll be back for Tuesday (against Coventry City). It’s history, it’s what has kept him out before. He did the right thing. He felt a little niggle straight away and came to tell me. He’s been on the training ground today. He’ll be on it tomorrow and then he’ll be back with us Monday.”

Heckingbottom stressed the changes to the starting line up that saw Jordan Thompson and Daniel Jebbison swapped out for Stefan Thordarson and Michael Smith were not precautionary.

“We don’t need to manage them, no,” said the PNE boss. “Tactically, we need to manage Jebbo and Smudge. We’ve got two nines at the minute if you like and we’ve got to mindful of that. I’d love to play with two nines all the time but it’s tactical. I think Lewis (Dobbin) has been great in that role and again, I thought first half he was outstanding.

“So no, there's nothing. Pol and Odel, maybe I'm thinking about because I want to get Pol more up to speed. I felt him being higher would have been better and suited his game a little bit more than Odel’s, and then I've got Odel fresh and ready to come back on Tuesday as well.”