Better late than never! Posh stay top of pile
Possession 50% 50% Shots On Target 10 3 Shots Off Target 7 5 Blocked Shots 1 1 Corners 9 4 Fouls Conceded 9 15 Offsides 1 2 Yellow Cards 0 1 Red Cards 0 0 Coker. But Toney’s winner three minutes from time left boss Evans delighted.
“We showed fantastic spirit and I thought we deserved it,” the Scotsman said.
“There were three parts of the game and for 70 minutes we were in complete control.
“We scored from a great set-play we worked on in training and got a second goal from another set-play after that.
“But from total control we went to total chaos for 12 minutes and it was then poor defending from us.
“At that point it looked like we are going to have to weather a storm with most of the fans in the stadium cheering for a home win.
“But we always looked like we could do something going forward and that’s the way it proved.
“We showed fantastic spirit to come back and although we’ll lose games this season and go behind, we will never lose that desire we have in the dressing room.
“Only good teams will come to Roots Hall and do that but we could’ve scored more.”
Former England international Chris Powell cut a dejected figure on his 49th birthday as Southend dropped to 15th in the table following successive defeats.
“It’s a tough one to take and it hurts,” said Powell.
“I thought the boys showed tremendous resilience and character – and on the balance of play I thought we were the better team.
“But we keep getting hurt and we have to manage certain situations a little better.
“They were poor goals to concede and when we got back to 2-2 we had to make sure we stayed organised.
“We couldn’t afford to get hit by a sucker punch and we spoke all week about how they like to counter.
“We managed that well, but not well enough.
“Sometimes we have to be a bit uglier and make sure we take something from the game because we should have done. today.”