Match Day Thread Peterborough United v Sunderland – Monday 5th April 2021 - KO 15:00

What I saw today was a team with character who do not expect to get beat. Our mental strength and strength in depth means we will get automatic promotion.

 

This. Commentators mentioned how many late goals we score and it's excellent to see the team respond the way it did. Posh were having their best spell of the game went they went 1-0 up but we got ourselves back into it and were the more likely team to win it by the end imo.

This team has goals in it, that's 24 matches in a row we've scored and it's hard to beat, only losing 5 games so far. It's got some fight about it and it can play some decent footy. Really enjoying this season, run in will be class.

 

I agree whereas I've not believed that for years.

People who are looking for every fault possible can f**k off tbh ...

... we're not Barcelona but we never give up.

 

Just my opinion but I thought we were excellent along our back line in the first half and Leadbitter and Winchester bossed the scraps in the middle of the park winning just about every ball.
We struggled second half with the pace of Dembele and Brown when they came on, but Johnson countered that with his substitutions

 

Yes. Yes. Yes.

 

Winchester was excellent

 

On this, about Dembele, took his goal well but it was completely Jones’ fault as he wandered past him into the box. He tracks that and makes the tackle. He did one other thing all game and that was a good run past Sanderson who then put him back in his pocket. He then hardly had a kick. Looked good fir 45 minutes at ours but Flanagan had him in his back pocket the other 45 (yes THAT Flanagan!!)

Taylor Beevers ward looked good. Szmodics looked rusty but you could see his quality. Clarke Harris I forgot he was playing half the time!

 

20 unbeaten at the end of the season then.

 

To be honest I haven't seen KLD say much wrong and Wolfy is very negative at times and has a shìt avatar but I don't let it bother me.

 

Man of the match. Which considering Posh have the best home record in the division shows how much we made them work defensively. Liked the look of Ward an all, thought he had a good game.

 

Great point and great character to come back from a sloppy goal given away. Their keeper looked shocking and flapped a few times and was poor for our goal, seemed to dive past it. Wish we had another few shots as he was injured and we never peppered him, due to the time of the game.

We move to a tricky game against Charlton but feeling good as we head into the last 8.

 

Not denying he had a good game but thought the reasoning that Gabbidon made was a bit strange - that he kept 24 goal Charlie Wyke quiet. Ok but in that context a midfielder playing as a centre half who in Gabbidon's words was "all over the pitch" as well as a 21 year old kept Peterborough's 26 goal striker quiet! I thought O'Nien should have got it but then again I'm biased!

 

Thought O’Nien looked the best defender on the pitch personally!

 

Some good performances from both teams defensively. Get where he was coming from with Beevers as he was dominant in the air imo but we played into that a bit. He'll eat up that long straight ball all day but as soon as we got down the side and turned him, not so good. It was his initial attempt to get to the cross that had us hitting the post and bit of a shame we couldn't get that side of our game going consistently.

 

Pitch didn't do us any favours today and neither did their defence. You have to give credit to them for cutting out our attack.

O9 was immense for us. Couple of errors but he made up for them every time.

I'm happy Hume is back for us, he's going to make a big difference imo.

 

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The most telling point for me was that once we equalised Posh made little effort to try and win the game.
In fact they were time wasting so I assume that they were happy with a point.
Thanks for the compliment

 

I thought he was man of the match