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Published 16:47 3 Oct 2017 BST
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“I’ve only been here for three months but I feel I’ve improved in so many ways. It’s very different [to the League of Ireland] in many ways. The main one is probably physically. You’re coming up against guys who are 6ft 2in and built like machines. If you take that second or third touch, they’re going to go through you. Mentally, as well, going into the latter stages of the game, with 20-30 minutes to go, you really have to keep your concentration. If you lose the ball you’re going to get punished – even if you’re playing up front or out on the wing you can find that you end up conceding."Maguire is joined by a host of Irish over at Preston with Daryl Horgan one man that people have high hopes for, he moved to England at the start of the year and also highlighted the differences:
"It was evening sessions back home," Horgan told the Lancashire Evening Post. "We were pretty much full-time but a couple of the lads had jobs as well so that would mean you'd train in the evenings. You would do your gym work in the morning and then train at 6pm. I was still in the gym at the crack of dawn back home. "It's a different set-up here but one that's going to be good for me. I'm enjoying the training, with it being in the morning – it's brilliant. "Playing in the Europa League definitely helped me get up to the intensity a lot quicker."
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