“Preston advance to the FA Cup quarter-finals,” proclaimed the PA announcer at Deepdale. It is a sentence no Preston fan has heard since 1966 but a reality after Paul Heckingbottom’s team produced a dominant display to shred Burnley.
Milutin Osmajic, almost inevitably, was central to Preston’s passage into the last eight. Robbie Brady, with a superb free-kick, Osmajic, with a clinical strike, and a predatory finish from Will Keane gave the hosts victory in the meeting of two founder members of the Football League. Burnley’s previously mean and lauded defence was nowhere to be seen. Defeat could have been greater for Scott Parker’s side.
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