Posh v Bolton 22/12/12

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MATCH FACTS

Head-to-head

• Bolton have won five of their seven league and cup matches against Peterborough.

• The 1-0 home win in February 1992 in the old Third Division, is Posh's only victory in their six league matches against the Trotters.

• The clubs are going toe-to-toe for the first time in 19 seasons.

Peterborough United

• Victories have come in twos for bottom-placed Peterborough this season. So having dramatically lowered the colours of top-of-the-table Cardiff last time out, Darren Ferguson will be hoping his side can register back-to-back victories for the third time this term.

• A draw will give the Cambridgeshire club 200 all-time points in second level league football, but a fifth successive London Road defeat would take their total of home league defeats to 300.

• Posh are hoping to go into Christmas on the back of a victory for the fourth year running.

Bolton Wanderers

• Bolton are hoping to complete successive league wins for the first time this season.

• The Trotters, who've only lost one of nine games under Dougie Freedman, have not been beaten in four away league outings, but remain the highest placed club with just two Championship victories on the road.

• Wanderers have dropped points on only one of their last seven pre-Christmas fixtures; losing 1-0 at Sunderland on 18 December 2010.

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Well if you stayed at home for whatever reason then tough titty, some you win but this one you lost, unlike 5 goal Posh

Peterborough withstood a fierce Bolton comeback to win a thrilling game at London Road.

Lee Tomlin and Dwight Gayle had Posh two goals ahead after five minutes, and after Keith Andrews pulled one back from the spot, George Thorne made it 3-1 two minutes after the break.

Andrews added another penalty but Mark Little and Gabriel Zakuani gave the hosts a three-goal lead.

But Benik Afobe and Martin Petrov both scored to set up a tense finish.

Darren Ferguson's side remain bottom of the Championship despite their second successive win.

Tomlin broke on to George Boyd's cross-field pass to guide past Adam Bogdan and Gayle added a second on the half-volley.

After Zakuani was penalised for holding Sam Ricketts at a corner, Andrews scored the resulting spot-kick but Thorne restored the two-goal margin by sweeping in from the edge of the area two minutes after the break.

Andrews converted another penalty after Joe Newell fouled Afobe but Little finished from Newell's cross and Zakuani headed in from Tomlin's ball to make it 5-2.

Dougie Freedman's Bolton cut the lead when Afobe finished Petrov's corner from close-range.

Petrov then produced a powerful finish with three minutes left, but Peterborough held on.

Peterborough manager Darren Ferguson: "The game should really have been over at 5-2 and we can't afford the make the sort of lapses in concentration that we did late on.

"We are in a battle to stay up and goal difference could be a factor so we cannot afford to give soft goals away, but I don't want to be too critical of my players after producing such a good performance against a team that were in the Premier League this time last year.

Bolton boss Dougie Freedman: "We knew that individual mistakes could well influence a game played in very testing conditions and that is an area in which we let ourselves down.

"We weren't in the game for the opening 20 minutes and full credit to Peterborough for the way they started.

"But we were much-improved in the second half and it was pleasing to see the players continue to show such desire even when it looked as though the match had gone."

Peterborough United

01 Olejnik
05 Zakuani
19 Little (Alcock - 89' )
06 Bostwick
14 Rowe
17 Newell (Ferdinand - 81' )
20 Knight-Percival
33 Thorne
08 Tomlin
10 Boyd
34 Gayle

Substitutes

13 Day
03 Alcock
04 Brisley
07 Swanson
11 McCann
16 Kearns
18 Ferdinand

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Checking out the Bolton forum and they enjoyed it ;D

"Is their anyone who is willing to defend this shower of s**** ? We could have been 5-0 down in the 1st 40 mins they battered us - they are bottom of the league FFS, I bet their entire squad in terms of transfer fee's and wages is a 1/10th of ours."