'No good looking back... we have to forge on' - McCall

Preston North End cannot afford to look back at missed opportunities this season, according to assistant-boss Stuart McCall.

The Lilywhites have won just one of their past eight Championship matches to fall five points outside the play-off places as they prepare to meet third-placed Millwall on Saturday (15:00 GMT).

Preston conceded a stoppage-time equaliser at Swansea on Tuesday having lost in similar fashion to Blackburn Rovers last Friday.

"A couple of wins and you're right back up there," McCall told BBC Radio Lancashire.

"If we hadn't lost the goals like we did in the last two games we'd be seventh but seventh or 12th or 14th there's hardly anything in it."

North End's only league win at home since beating Sheffield Wednesday on New Year's Day is a 1-0 victory over Portsmouth three weeks ago and McCall says that game could also have gone either way.

"There's very little in a lot of games, a bad decision from you own side, a referee or whatever it might be, it's really tight and you need those little moments to go your way," he added.

"You've got to stick at it. It's no good looking back, we try to learn from what we've done and not done recently and forge on to the next game which is Millwall."

Preston will still be without first-choice goalkeeper Daniel Iversen for the game at Deepdale as he continues his recovery from a groin injury which has kept him out since the FA Cup loss to Wigan on 9 January.

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