Preston working with injuries ahead of clash

PRESTON North End boss Paul Heckingbottom hopes Montenegro internationalo Milutin Osmajic will be involved against Derby County today.

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The Pride Park clash may come too soon for the striker to start, but Osmajic has trained this week.

He injured his ribs in the Carabao Cup defeat to Wrexham and has missed the last two League games, away to Portsmouth and at home to Middlesbrough.

"He's back in training," said Heckingbottom, the former Barnsley, Leeds United and Sheffield United manager, who joined the club at the start of last season.

"He'd been touch and go but he'd not done any training before the last game.

"When you've waited over the international break and he'd only missed a couple of games in that three, four-week period, we knew if we risked him and the worst was to happen, we've got another four games before the next international break, which he would miss.

"He's obviously missed quite a bit of training and all the physical things that come with that.