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Coca-Cola Football League Championship
Game 12: Saturday 16 October 2004
Leeds United 1 - 0 Preston North End
(Half-time: 0 - 0)
Crowd: 30458
Referee: G Lewis (Tyne and Wear)
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Danny Pugh finally ended Leeds United's lengthy wait for a
goal. Their drought had lasted for more than seven hours when the
former Manchester United winger struck to extend Preston's dreadful
away record.
It ensured a victory that this lethargic Leeds team hardly
deserved, but nobody could dispute Pugh's right to emerge as the
match-winner with his sixth goal of the season.
It was an appropriate reward for Pugh's industry and intelligence
down United's left flank, adding to the belief that his arrival in the
summer on a free transfer was one of the shrewder recent moves by a
troubled club.
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