The Peterborough Evening Telegraph
Excitement is guaranteed, but winning games isn’t
Posh are doing their best to blur the important difference between winning football and attractive, entertaining football.
Manager Graham Westley has cracked the latter as every Posh game under him has been breathlessly exciting.
But the demand for consistency will soon overtake the praise for quality football. Posh have actually won just one of their last four games, a point that has been underreported in the clamour to marvel at outstanding goals, flowing attacks and inadequate defending.
This match summed up where Posh are. It was a fantastic spectacle, but Posh lost, rather bewilderingly as they created the better chances throughout the game, even though Coventry themselves were outstanding in the second period.
Striker Conor Washington will bear the brunt of the blame even though he was superb until reaching the penalty area. His speed, movement and touch were all impressive, but he could have scored five goals. Most crucially he missed a decent chance at 2-0 in the first-half and two one-on-ones at 2-1 in the second-half.
Getting the main part of his job right on any of those occasions would probably have sealed three points for his team. Instead Coventry were able to come back from a two-goal half-time deficit to claim the victory.
Covent ry boss Tony Mowbray made changes during the game that affected the action positively. By his own admission Westley made changes that had a negative impact on his own side, most notably replacing Chris Forrester (he was ill) with Jack Collison early in the second half.
Collison lacks the ‘legs’ to compete in such a fast-paced game. Jermaine Anderson (after great wok by Washington) and Erhun Oztumer (from 25 yards) scored for Posh. Romain Vincelot and the exceptional Adam Armstrong ( 2) scored for the Sky Blues. Armstrong would have bagged six if he’d played in pink.
He was one of a few Coventry players who ran Ricardo Santos ragged.
Washington was superb until he reached the penalty
area.