Grant’s miss is costly
Lincoln City 1 Peterborough 1
LINCOLN boss Michael Appleton was frustrated not to have taken all three points.
Visitors Peterborough dominated the early stages, taking the lead through TJ Eyoma’s own goal on 10 minutes.
But Appleton’s league leaders dominated the second half and equalised through Anthony Scully four minutes after the break.
Imps were awarded a penalty midway through the second half when Nathan Thompson handled in the box, with the Posh defender being dismissed after receiving his second yellow card, but Jorge Grant missed from the spot.
“It is (two points dropped),” said Appleton, who only returned to the club on
Friday after suffering from Covid-19 and serving a period of selfisolation.
“There’s a little bit of frustration. I’ve got no doubt I’ll wake up tomorrow with the same bit of frustration inside me but I’ll also be delighted with the performance.
“To be fair, I only worked with them for the first time in 10 days yesterday. Maybe, if we’d had a little bit more prep, it might have been a bit different.
“After that early period I thought we were excellent. We came out of the blocks well in the second half and were dominating the game against 11 players, never mind against 10.”
Posh manager Darren Ferguson was happy with a point but felt his side should have killed the game off at 1-0.
“I thought at 1-0 we had them,” he said.
“We just didn’t kill them off.
“When you’re leading, you need to be ruthless.”