News
March 2010
6 March, 2010:
POSH OUTCLASSED BY STEAD
Banana skins? Pfft, we're stepping over them carefully every week these days, and the 'March to the Arch' is becoming ever more of a reality for the Sky Blues.
The defence, whoever plays in it, is keeping clean sheets now and we're scoring the odd goal here and there, with Jon Stead looking like a useful acquisition indeed.
All we can do is win our own games, and it's true that Cardiff's win today keeps us three points off the play-offs with no hope of making up the goal-difference. But we're keeping in touch with only a quarter of the season remaining, and at the very least we'll have no relegation worries this season.
We don't play in midweek, but lots of teams do, and if those results go our way, we could inch closer to the play-offs without even kicking a ball, and our game next weekend is against second-bottom Plymouth - another banana skin, but another chance to get three points on the board before a crunch contest with Cardiff.
5 March, 2010:
INTERNATIONAL ROUND-UP
It's been a relatively quiet week for our International stars, with Sammy Clingan missing Northern Ireland's 1-0 defeat in Albania due to illness, and Keiren Westwood being an unused sub for the Republic as they lost 2-0 to Brazil.
But Aron Gunnarsson was back in action for Iceland, as they drew 0-0 in Cyprus.
Championship Preview
Peterborough Utd
Coventry CityIt's becoming quite exciting now as the season approaches it's business end, and for all the rightest of right reasons. We're three points behind the club in 6th place and with a serious chance of making the play-offs. Yes, Cardiff have two games in hands on us and a hugely better goal difference so 'three points behind' is fairly meaningless, but our proximity to the top six shows just how far we've come in recent weeks. Peterborough, on the other hand, are staring instant relegation squarely in the face. They have really struggled since winning promotion from League One and are ten points short of safety. On paper we should win comfortably, but as we know, games aren't played on paper'n'shit.
We managed to beat Scunthorpe despite injuries to Richard Wood and David Bell who have been two of Chris Coleman's most important signings. They will both miss out once again, and Sammy Clingan is struggling with a virus and missed the International friendlies in midweek. Leon Barnett is, once again, suspended having got himself sent off again last week. This means that Ben Turner will probably make a long-awaited return to the side in central defence, while the exciting Gary Baker will continue on the wing. Posh are without Josh Simpson and Ryan Bennett while Reuben Reid and Exodus Geohaghon are doubts.
We've done really well in recent weeks, only losing to the top side in the division, but it has to stop some time, and we'll probably get beaten by the bottom side here.
Stats
- We have only been to London Road three times in the league - in three successive seasons in the early 1960s - and the games saw us winning twice and losing once.
- We are looking for back-to-back away wins for the first time since November 2008.
- Peterborough are bottom of the league, and no side has lost more games than them this season.
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Last Season's score
no fixture
SBS Score Prediction
2-0