Ross Wallace will be aiming to put one over on his former boss, Roy Keane, this weekend.
The diminutive Scotsman was one of Keane's first ever signings as a manager when he was taken to Sunderland from Celtic in the summer of 2006, Wallace fell out of favour with Keane two years later but Sunderland's loss was Preston's gain. Regardless of the past history between player and manager, Wallace knows that North End are in for a tough test come Saturday afternoon.
"They are playing well at the moment, it is going to be a tough game," Wallace said as he looked ahead to the visit of an Ipswich Town side who have suffered just one league defeat in their last 15 matches.
"You know you are going to get a tough game with all Roy Keane's teams so we are going to have to be up for it and we are going to have to match them and hopefully we can get the win."
North End themselves got back to winning ways on Tuesday night when they grabbed a victory at Peterborough, Darren Ferguson's first as boss and Wallace is hoping that the win can provide the impetus for a late season surge up the table.
"I thought we deserved the win in the end, I thought we played well at times during the game on what was a bad pitch," said Wallace of the London Road victory.
"We've lost two and won one but Bristol City was a tough place to go to, especially in the first match then we got Chelsea at home so it was important that we went down to Peterborough and got a win.
"The manager said to us after we got the win that hopefully that can kick us on for the rest of the season. There is always one or two who break out from the pack in the bottom half of the table and hopefully that can be us with two home games coming up."
Preston's last home game was that high profile FA Cup clash with Chelsea last weekend, a game which though Preston lost Wallace believes the Club can take plenty of positives from.
He said: "We were expected to get battered against Chelsea, they had better possession and they are a slightly better team than us, they are a class team. But our organisation was there and defensively we were quite good so hopefully that can keep us in good stead for the rest of the season.
"Youl coming back has been massive for us, he is a big player for us and with him coming back into the back four he has done really well for us.
"With Bill sitting in there and the experienced back four and Lonners in goal it gives the rest of the players a go forward and maybe an opportunity to express themselves a little more going forward."
New boss Darren Ferguson has wasted no time in making a few tweaks and changes to North End's tactics and shape, and the introduction of Danny Welbeck brings a further dimension to Preston's attack.
"We are not going to be pumping long balls up to Danny all the time," Wallace said.
"We will have to get passing and try and slide some balls through and try and keep the ball on the deck a little bit and that will suit people like myself and Danny.
"We know we have got to get the ball wide and use our full-backs a bit more. Against Peterborough I thought Harty and Callum were outstanding, it was unfortunate that Callum got injured but hopefully that's a sign of things to come."
