Blackburn's Beck 'has bite mark' after Osmajic clash

Preston North End guardant Milutin Osmajic could look a lengthy prohibition aft allegedly biting Owen Beck during their Lancashire derby against Blackburn Rovers.

Beck, connected indebtedness from Liverpool, was sent disconnected successful nan 89th infinitesimal of the 0-0 draw astatine Deepdale aft kicking retired astatine Preston's Duane Holmes.

After nan melee which followed, Beck furiously protested to referee Matthew Donohue that he had been bitten by Osmajic, who was fixed a yellowish card.

Television replays appeared to show Osmajic, 25, biting nan 22-year-old connected his precocious back.

Blackburn head John Eustace told BBC Radio Lancashire: "Owen's sewage a large wound people connected nan backmost of his cervix and it's a shame nan referee didn't spot that."

Luis Suarez, past of Liverpool, received a 10-match ban successful 2013 for biting Chelsea's Branislav Ivanovic.

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Both teams ended nan lucifer pinch 10 men - Preston's Sam Greenwood was sent disconnected precocious successful nan first half for a crude situation connected Blackburn midfielder Lewis Baker.

Eustace said: "It's a very superior incident, no-one likes to beryllium bitten.

"Everyone's angry astir it. It's not a bully business to beryllium in. I'm judge nan correct group will spot it and we'll return it from there.

"It's a section derby, there's humor and thunder and bodies connected nan line.

"Those [Greenwood's reddish card] are nan challenges that you expect to spot successful a section derby. They'll beryllium disappointed their lad's been sent disconnected and we will beryllium having a man sent off."

Osmajic, 25, was a grounds signing for North End erstwhile he arrived from Cadiz last year and has scored 8 convention goals for nan club.

Preston head Paul Heckingbottom says he had not seen nan incident erstwhile asked but told BBC Radio Lancashire: "All I tin opportunity is, location nary spot for that [biting] and we cognize you can't do that. Mistimed tackles and things for illustration that are portion and parcel of nan game, you judge them.

"Anything that's not, we cognize really that's dealt with. But I've not seen thing truthful I'm conscionable going disconnected [the media] saying there's an incident.

"I tin spot why Greenwood's situation is simply a red. I've seen acold worse tackles successful nan Sunderland crippled yesterday and they ended up pinch 11 men and won nan crippled 1-0.

"I deliberation nan decisions are beautiful easy ones. If that's going to beryllium a reddish past nary problem."