PNE shared the spoils with the Canaries on Tuesday night

Preston North End midfielder Ali McCann didn’t have too many complaints after Tuesday night’s 2-2 draw with Norwich City.

After 12 minutes, the Lilywhites were in dreamland as goals from Sam Greenwood - who scored from the penalty spot - and Duane Holmes put the hosts in a strong position. But, the Canaries pulled a goal back right before half-time and they got themselves on level terms just after the hour mark.

On the whole, McCann - who has been one of Preston’s form players in recent outings - recognised the challenge posed by Johannes Hoff Thorup’s team. He felt North End could still take plenty of positives away from Deepdale and knows that winning at Plymouth, on Saturday, would make it an excellent week.

“Yeah, that’d be really good,” said McCann. “To maintain consistency in this league is hard, so if we could come away with that it would be huge for us. Then, we can go and attack the cup game (against Arsenal) after that which will be under the lights, here, again. That will be a good night, but the weekend is the important one and we can hopefully come away with the win.”

On sharing the spoils with Norwich, he added: “It was a great start. The two of them (Greenwood and Holmes) give us great energy and they’re always a goal threat. They deserve it because they came in and Duane, in particular, has been patient to get those minutes - and he took his chance. They are probably one of the best teams we have played so far.

“They move the ball well and their rotations are really hard - Sainz and Marcondes, they pick up good positions, so it is difficult to mark. But, I feel like we did a good job in the main. They got through us a few times, but like I say they’ve got quality players throughout their squad and in the grand scheme of things, it is probably a good point.

“I think it was one little lapse of concentration (for their first goal) and they took advantage. They have got good players, it was a great ball in and a good finish to be fair. Then, they kind of did us quickly and I didn’t even realise (Shane Duffy) started the move and finished it. That is just disappointing for us, but we’ll take it on the chin. We managed to hold on to a point. Saying that, we still created chances in the second half and could’ve nicked it ourselves.”