Peterborough United Post Match Thoughts

[millertop]

Mattock will be out, hamstring tear

Be surprised if Warney uses Purrington, Ihiekwe will be in is my guess

[mikemiller]

Thanks for the information, Topper... although it's not good news

[Grist_To_The_Mill]

I thought we did well to be honest. Wasteful in front of goal, it should have been put to bed on the hour mark.

Still Peterborough battled well and got the get out of jail card

Injuries are a worry though for the run in.

[flourbasher]

We've got the injuries covered.
Ihiekwe or Purrington at LB.
Vaulks for Towell
Wood at CB

[jocksgloves]

It doesn't take much to lose an 8 point lead, given the form we are in. More worrying is going into the play-offs on a downward curve.

[dmentor]

We need a player like Marriott,20 shots today & could not put them away.2 points lost for me.Poor attendance today I thought.MOM palmer.

We have been banding on about this for years,we found one,but refused to sign him permanently,so he went to Barnsley.

[dmentor]

We brought about our own downfall yesterday,they were on the back foot,and we were creating a lot of good opportunities,however with ten minutes to go,plus the time added on,we decided to drop deep,and just hoof the ball in any direction,why Warne and Barker allowed them to do it was beyond me,they just kept giving the ball to the lad out wide,and he was putting quality balls in to our box,and you just knew with the porous defence we have got,that a chance would fall to Marriot,and he would stick it away,i wonder if anyone else notice Ajayi,in the first half,do exactly the same as he did at Southend,go to head the ball which Emmanuel had got covered,and made a balls up of it again,this time he got away with it,will the guy ever learn.

[millertop]

Williams has been a good player to bring on to see out games, that's why he fetched him on.

So bringing Wood on and putting Vaulks back in midfield wouldn’t have been a better option? A better chance that they wouldn’t have got that equaliser imo

[fc_miller]

they chucked the centre halves forward, and we brought smith back to defend. We should have kept two strikers upfront, and they would have had to cover them, as when you hoof the ball clear Lavery had no support. We defended too deep for the last couple of minutes of normal time and the 9 minutes of added time.

[flourbasher]

We need to learn from this.
If you continually sit back for as long as we did the opposition grow in confidence knowing you won't hurt them on the break and they had a full 10 minutes to do it.
We never made any attempts to make them defend and if we had of done it would have put doubt in their defenders minds that that can't go so far forward for so long. Otherwise they go two down and it's game over even if they 6m OT
We actually did it properly vs Wimbledon and we got a second to kill the game off
We had two real opportunities to do this yesterday with the Rodak kick up field and Lavery also had it on the RHS but he dithered, was dispossessed far too easily and the ball came straight back