League 1 : Gillingham - Peterborough United
Posh are our League 1 selection, are in the top two already and can extend an already three point advantage over the pack with all three points this evening. They are coming off a 0-0 home draw with Notts County, but will get a lot more space this evening and are defending a 100% record on the road. My preseason notes on them are reproduced at at the foot of the email. In the update, written earlier this month I added .....
Posh have won 4 of 5 and outplayed Sheffield United for long periods in their only defeat.
They lost Britt Assombalonga to Nottingham Forest, who made an offer no L1 club could ever refuse. Boro already had targets lined up and signed Marcus Maddison from Gateshead and 19 yo Luke James from Hartlepool, both are archetypal Posh signings (Ferguson, Barry Fry and MacAnthony all have a very good eye for non and lower league talent), banking the other circa £4-5m. Maddison is only 20 and was very well thought of at Newcastle United a couple of years back, but paid the price for perhaps believing the hype and had to drop out of league football to prove himself and is now very hungry to impress. James was totally adored by supporters at Hartlepool and has been monitored by a host of bigger clubs.They have also signed defender Christian Burgess on loan from Middlesbrough .They face Port Vale, Notts Co and Fleetwood at home, Yeovil and Gillingham on the road this month and that it not a set of fixtures to strike too much terror into Boro . I felt the 12-13 was too big pre season and feel similarly about the 9.0 now, but there is no need to bet again. However, I have to say I will be shocked if they are too far away come the end of the season.
They have taken four points from the two starts since then and I expect them to add to that tally this evening, they are another team who should be suited to a quick turnaround, having a strong group of players with competition for starting places. Gillingham less so and they look an archetypal mid table side, who look short of goals. They have heavily relied upon Cody McDonald to provide those in recent seasons, but he has only scored one in six, Danny Kedwell has scored four this season, but has been carrying a knock and has not played this month and is again a doubt this evening and the goals have dried up. They conceded four at both Barnsley and MK Dons, neither of whom pose the offensive threat of Boro and the problem is that when they try to protect the backline, the offense suffers, witness three consecutive starts without scoring. Defensively they have not been helped by the three match suspension to Gavin Hoyte who will again be missing tonight and the long term injury to former Brentford keeper Stuart Nelson, who had missed only one match over the previous two seasons, they have conceded an average of 1.86 goals per game in his absence. Away win. 1.25 units Peterborough United -0.5 ball 2.17 asian
Posh are our League 1 selection, are in the top two already and can extend an already three point advantage over the pack with all three points this evening. They are coming off a 0-0 home draw with Notts County, but will get a lot more space this evening and are defending a 100% record on the road. My preseason notes on them are reproduced at at the foot of the email. In the update, written earlier this month I added .....
Posh have won 4 of 5 and outplayed Sheffield United for long periods in their only defeat.
They lost Britt Assombalonga to Nottingham Forest, who made an offer no L1 club could ever refuse. Boro already had targets lined up and signed Marcus Maddison from Gateshead and 19 yo Luke James from Hartlepool, both are archetypal Posh signings (Ferguson, Barry Fry and MacAnthony all have a very good eye for non and lower league talent), banking the other circa £4-5m. Maddison is only 20 and was very well thought of at Newcastle United a couple of years back, but paid the price for perhaps believing the hype and had to drop out of league football to prove himself and is now very hungry to impress. James was totally adored by supporters at Hartlepool and has been monitored by a host of bigger clubs.They have also signed defender Christian Burgess on loan from Middlesbrough .They face Port Vale, Notts Co and Fleetwood at home, Yeovil and Gillingham on the road this month and that it not a set of fixtures to strike too much terror into Boro . I felt the 12-13 was too big pre season and feel similarly about the 9.0 now, but there is no need to bet again. However, I have to say I will be shocked if they are too far away come the end of the season.
They have taken four points from the two starts since then and I expect them to add to that tally this evening, they are another team who should be suited to a quick turnaround, having a strong group of players with competition for starting places. Gillingham less so and they look an archetypal mid table side, who look short of goals. They have heavily relied upon Cody McDonald to provide those in recent seasons, but he has only scored one in six, Danny Kedwell has scored four this season, but has been carrying a knock and has not played this month and is again a doubt this evening and the goals have dried up. They conceded four at both Barnsley and MK Dons, neither of whom pose the offensive threat of Boro and the problem is that when they try to protect the backline, the offense suffers, witness three consecutive starts without scoring. Defensively they have not been helped by the three match suspension to Gavin Hoyte who will again be missing tonight and the long term injury to former Brentford keeper Stuart Nelson, who had missed only one match over the previous two seasons, they have conceded an average of 1.86 goals per game in his absence. Away win. 1.25 units Peterborough United -0.5 ball 2.17 asian
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