Not giving up hope just yet

Posh’s Jonson ClarkeHarris inexplicably flicked the best chance of the first-half wide with his left foot.

“It was a big moment,” said Posh boss Grant McCann. “We were all expecting Jonno to swing the right foot.”

Millwall midfielder

George Saville fired straight at keeper David Cornell soon after the restart. But they needed a smart Bartosz Bialkowski save from Jack Marriott’s 25-yard drive to keep things level before opening the scoring.

McCann

VITAL STATS

MILLWALL PETERBORO 4 ........ Shots on Target ......... 3 10 ....... Shots off Target ......... 5 8 ................ Corners ............... 12 9 .................. Fouls .................... 9 2 ............... Offsides ................ 0 73.6.Passing Success %..76.9 406 ...... Total Passes ........ 446 47.9 ..... Possession % ...... 52.1 51.8 ..Territorial Adv % ..48.2 was upset with the left-foot shot into the left officials for awarding corner. Rowett brought on Millwall a 53rd-minute forwards Jed Wallace and throw in. Mason Bennett.

Ryan Leonard hurled it Murray Wallace, then into the box and Afobe Saville were denied by the dispatched an angled woodwork in the space of MILLWALL: Bialkowski 7; Leonard 6 (J Wallace 55, 8) Hutchinson 6, Cooper 6; McNamara 7, Mitchell 7, Saville 6, M. Wallace 6; Burke 6 (Burey 82), Bradshaw 6 (Bennett 55, 7), Afobe 7.

Subs not used: Long, Kieftenbeld, Pearce, Evans.

PETERBOROUGH: Cornell 7; Knight 6, Edwards 7, Kent 6 (Jones 57, 6); Ward 6, Taylor 6, Fuchs 5 (Randall 73), Burrows 6; Szmodics 6, Clarke-Harris 6, Marriott 6 (Poku 57, 6).

Subs not used: Blackmore, Beevers, Grant, Taylor.

MAN OF THE MATCH: Jed Wallace. Provided the creative spark Millwall lacked in first half.

REFEREE: Geoff Eltringham 7. 60 seconds as the hosts pressed to boost their goal difference.

The second came when Knight turned Wallace’s cross into his own net.

And when the same man swung the ball over for Saville to head home at the far post, there was a feeling a late promotion charge might still be on.

As it is, that will have to come at Bournemouth on Saturday.