The Peterborough Evening Telegraph
Fantastic Fergie football at its finest in five-star show
Utter garbage followed by some great and glorious football.
The last two matches have pretty much summed up Posh in League One in the 2022-23 season.
Just how basically the same set of players can shake off a performance of mind-boggling ineptitude to deliver a display full of freeflowing, high quality attacking football would tax the most gifted of coaches, or even excessively rumunerated Match of the Day pundits.
This was Fergie ‘we’ll just score more goals than you’ football at its finest. Risks were taken at the back which caused alarm, but they were rewarded by some breathtaking attacking football.
Posh won 5-2 in a game that could have easily finished 10-4 such were the regular breaches of both defences.
Indeed for 10 minutes Posh looked likely to struggle. The home press was ferocious, the Posh passing was rushed and suspect as a result. Goalkeeper Will Norris made some sharp saves.
But from the moment Jonson Clarke-Harris headed home a precise cross from Ephron Mason-Clark to open the scoring on 12 minutes confidence soared back into a Posh team who ran their opponents ragged as a fab attacking four, which also included Joe Ward and Harrison Burrows, ran amok.
Outstanding movement and passing led to tap-in goals for Mason-Clark, Burrows
and Clarke-Harris again. Ward’s goal, the seventh of the game with 25 minutes still to play, involved some fine solo skill after a wonderful Jack Taylor pass.
Posh had scored twice in eight minutes to go 2-0 up, conceded before the half hour mark and then added a third goal which should have led to others from Frankie Kent and Mason-Clark before the interval.
Goals continued to flow after the break as the scoreline moved from 4-1 to 4-2 to 5-2 in 15 mad minutes before Posh eased home.
MATCH FACTS Goals: Posh – Clarke-Harris (12 & 51), Mason-Clark (20), Burrows (39), Ward (65). Burton – Powell (28), Smith (58).
Attendance: 2,383 (388 Posh).