Posh Blog

Pretty much sums up Tuesday night's game against Carlisle. You could have been forgiven for falling asleep during the first half as so little happened. To be fair to the teams, you could forgive them for perhaps being a little shaken at seeing Gabriel Zakuani stretchered off on a spine board, something which ensured there would be 9 minutes of extra time. Then Lee Frecklington also had to make his way off after pulling a hamstring. Fortunately Zakuani escaped serious injury and will be back in two weeks while Frecklington could be out for quite a while longer.

The ball largely stayed in the midfield for the majority of the first half, even when one of the two teams did stray forward the shot that resulted was nothing to worry about. Carlisle gave us plenty of trouble back in October and we looked like we might struggle to win again tonight.

We started the second half slightly better, finally getting some decent shooting oppurtunities which Mackail-Smith was unlucky not to put away. Even though George Boyd had been quite dissapointing for most of the game he still managed to start the move off that resulted in our goal. Whelpdale had his shot saved but McLean is a goal poacher so there was no way he would miss the chance to put away the rebound. He's now scored 5 in the last 4 games and he's certainly hitting top form.

Joe Lewis kept his second clean sheet in a row and in the second half he had some important saves to make which he did with confidence. After the shakeyness of the last few games he seems to be back up to full confidence again. Charlie Lee had yet another great game in a position that isn't his, he created most of our attacks from left back, I don't think he's played in his normal position once this season.

The result means we are only 1 point behind MK Dons now although they do have two games in hand. They have to play Leicester on Saturday though and this hopefully will give us the chance to really close the gap on them. We have Southend on Saturday which our local TV station counts as a local derby despite it being well over a 100 miles away because it just about falls in the same TV region.

Next Match Attending

Posh v Southend
28/2/09 3pm
London Road