Jesters, OK, I'll do it, Official Posh v Gas matchday thread

It’s amazing isn’t it. Play players in their correct positions and the team performs a lot better. Hope that is lesson learned and no more centre backs playing on the wing or as a midfielder.

Don’t get sucked in

A good point, we rode our luck but sometimes you get that when working hard.

2 goals in 4 league games shows hat extra firepower is needed.

With so many league 1 squads at our level only having 3 strikers is it a matter of expense? Availability? Being able to attract the players.

3 strikers is fine if they are all fit and scoring. If Daly is long term injured we need a new striker yesterday!

So many positives and I was telling my mate not to get too carried away as we did let up 12 shots... I just checked the xG analysis (and yes for those of you that hate stat based discussion please ignore and let the ones that do enjoy it for a few moments - ta) and it was much much closer than I had expected



For large parts of the game we were looking on top... start and end parts a bit nervy but you know after our run and the quality of the attack on our opponents I guess you might expect it.

As for our players performances... great, just great!  Real TEAM effort and 'partnerships' developing all over the place.  (MORE STATS incoming - look away now)

Day - 12 Shots saved!
Baldwin - 6 Defensive Aerials won, 2 Tackles, 5 Interceptions, 4 Clearances, 1 dribble, 1 shot and 6% of our possession (+ obviously the EYE test - looked awesome)
Leahy - 4 Tackles and 5.8% of our possession (partnership with Baldwin working well)
Ozzy - 3 Tackles, 2 Shots, 90% pass success rate (on that pitch) and 3 key passes
Special shout to Ayunga who won 5 aerials in 30 mins and looked to be getting right up to speed and putting himself about really well... do we have this target man right under our nose already?  (ok lets not get too carried away lol only played 240 mins this season so far)

Average player positions are interesting also with us playing way more up the pitch and Abu holding back shielding a little more and Alfie playing the deepest of the back 3 offering that option to pass back if overwhelmed!  Looks pretty balanced - I like

It was interesting listening to the peterborough commentary team. How they saw that ogogo and grant were key figures in the game.
Posh usually play through the middle (they say) and in this game they were unable to do that so came more down the sides. This meant they didnt get the key through balls theirs strikers thrive on.
The difference having nicholson and oztumer on the pitch was obvious to see. An actual attacking threat.

Ayunga I have noticed brings the ball under control very well ,so whilst his finishing is poor at the moment there is a future for him.

Hanlan played very well ,perhaps having nic and oz around means the opposition cant over mark him (?) Still needs to shoot more .

Good result .

"Just goes to show, if you can attack more you defend less". Confucious 24 BC

Great all round performance especially from Ogogo and Grant who stopped the Posh midfield from playing their normal game.

I'm not sure how vocal Ogogo is, but he certainly leads by example, and was the heartbeat of that side last night. You could see by his reaction at the end he was absolutely shattered. But that's what we want from our players - to play for the shirt.

The quality of Oztumer and Nicholson shone through. I'm sure we would have got points had they'd been available in the last few games.

Where was the post match comment from Tis though or did I miss it?

There was one moment second half where the ball went in to their half near Hanlan and Ayunga but they left it for each other and Peterborough broke from it,Ogogo sprinted 20 yards to their player smashed him with a great block tackle and then turned to Ayunga and Hanlan smashed his fists together as he shouted what looked like Dam get stuck in.
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He was dead long before then.