It’s just what he does.
It’s just business as usual.
It’s just Daryl bloody Horgan.
62 minutes into Horgan’s life as a professional footaller, he’s already set the Championship alight with his first assist in his first start for Preston North End.
https://www.instagram.com/p/BPP4IHyjQMM/?taken-by=sportsjoedotie
The former Dundalk player was thrown into the deep end for his first taste of English league football and he took to it like a deadly shark.
The obstacle: Christ Hughton’s table-topping Brighton.
The outcome: a nifty assist for the Irishman, and Preston doubling their lead.
With Ireland assistant manager Roy Keane in attendance, the Galway native gave the Deepdale crowd all the thrills and delights they could not have been expecting from a man on his first start against the most in-form side in the league but it took Horgan 53 minutes to carve an opening for Callum Robinson.
In front of 11,391 spectators, Horgan feared absolutely nothing and his long ball sent Robinson in for the hosts’ second of the game.
The weight, the precision, the vision. Look at it in all its glory.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5c18AMlrRaI
Naturally, everyone was raving about the man. The new hero of Preston.
What a ball by Horgan to set up Robinson #pnefc
— PNEFC (@allthingspne) January 14, 2017
Daryl Horgan 1 start 1 assist, Roy Keane at the game 2
— Séamus McGee (@SeamusMacAoidh) January 14, 2017
Daryl Horgan making big impact against league leaders Brighton today. Delighted for him 👍🏻
— Alan Cawley (@alancaw) January 14, 2017
Daryl Horgan is the real deal #Preston #Horgan
— Peter masterson (@Peesheen) January 14, 2017
Horgan is unreal. Him, McGeady and Robinson are an awesome front three #pnefc
— Ash (@Aimms95) January 14, 2017
Horgan with an assist for Preston. I'm telling you he will be quality
— Irish_Leeds (@Irish_Leeds) January 14, 2017
Horgan is immense #pnefc
— Alan Baldwin (@albalders39) January 14, 2017
Horgan with his first of many assists
— Ryan Kavanagh (@RyanKavanagh_) January 14, 2017
Horgan's assist going down well with PNE fans pic.twitter.com/iZZyOMOCa1
— Keith Dunne (@dunne109) January 14, 2017
Just another day. The start of something special.
https://twitter.com/Kxndaira/status/820304058904784896
And it wasn’t like he stopped there. He kept it going, he kept terrorising. And even when Robinson was subbed off, Horgan went nowhere.
76' Lovely turn from Horgan before the Irishman's bending effort is fractionally wide of the target.#pnefc 2-0
— Preston North End FC (@pnefc) January 14, 2017
Well, not until the 90th minute anyway. And there was a reason for it.
90' Second sub of the afternoon sees Horgan make way to a standing ovation, he's replaced by Spurr.#pnefc 2-0
— Preston North End FC (@pnefc) January 14, 2017
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