Preston North End stopper Andy Lonergan loves playing under the floodlights at Deepdale and he tells pne.com that the special atmosphere created has been a key factor in previous victories.

Lonergan tells the Club's official website that he is looking forward to getting back in action so that the lads can banish the memory of last Saturday's derby defeat.

"It's good that it is at home and is a night game," the keeper told pne.com.

"Hopefully we can get back to the tempo we have been playing at because the last few games have been nowhere near good enough. We are guaranteed to get our hardcore turning out. I think for the Wolves game we had a few people coming because it was a big game but the fans that turn out every Tuesday night, they will be behind us and there is no reason why we can't put on a good performance.



"I just think that it's a better atmosphere on a night, the pitch is always livelier and that just helps how we play the game. On a Saturday afternoon the pitch never seems to be as flush and as a fast as it is on a night."

That flush and fast surface might suit both teams on Tuesday evening. Swansea boss Roberto Martinez has got plenty of continental talent at his disposal and as expected the Welsh club's foreign legion like to play football the right way. It's a measure of how dangerous a threat Swansea are that manager Alan Irvine spent most of his video analysis session prior to the match looking at Tuesday night's opposition rather than looking back to the Burnley match.

"I hate losing any game but I think Burnley deserved to win. We didn't create and we didn't do anything that we normally do but at the end of the day it is only three points, it doesn't matter who you win against and who you lose against, it's still three points.

"The Gaffer said a few things at half-time and after the game at Burnley, there were a few things he wasn't too happy about but we focused more on Swansea on Monday - what they do and how we need to play against them.

"We had a good meeting about them on Monday, they briefed us on them and I think the Gaffer rates them highly so we are not under any illusions; it's going to be a tough game."

One of the major talking points from Saturday's match was Joey Gudjonsson's amazing strike to equalise. There are many ways of describing the Icelandic's 35-yard dipping effort depending on what side of the fence you sit on, but there's no doubt in Lonergan's mind that it was a wondergoal: "I don't know how else you can describe it really. There was a few thousand fans behind the net who made it clear that they thought it was going over as he hit the ball.

"It'll teach me to treat the ball on its own merits. If the lads behind the net think it is going over then what does the keeper think? I've reacted as and when I could but the dip of the ball just made it virtually impossible to read.

"A couple of the lads said that they turned round thinking that it was already over the bar but then they have had a little glance and seen that it has hit the back of the net.



"It was a freak goal but their keeper has told me afterwards that he does it every day in training, so I suppose it's not a freak from their point of view. We should have stopped it but you have to hold your hand up and say well done for the strike."

The post-mortem from Turf Moor also revealed something of a crisis at left-back, Michael Hart's injury and Callum Davidson's suspension meant that PNE were seriously short of cover for Tuesday night's Championship. But an old friend of Lonergan's has arrived to fill the gap and the keeper is confident that Jay McEveley can do well at Deepdale.

"We went to the same college together and I have played with him for England a lot, me, him and Carts [Darren Carter], so I know him well, he's a good lad," Lonners said.

"He played a lot of games in the Premier League when he was really young and that's set him up perfectly. He's had a couple of bad injuries but he has put those behind him now and he went up from this division the season before last with Derby, he's a good signing.

"He's on loan from a team in our league but that doesn't mean that he is not good enough for us, things might have happened at Derby and he's fallen out of favour but he's definitely a top player and just because he's not playing at Derby doesn't mean there's anything bad against him."