| Wrexham's second of three home games in a week
sees Darren Ferguson visit the Racecourse for the first time as an
opposition manager. Peterborough are
currently the form team in the league and our draw at London Road two
weeks a go prevented Peterborough from recording seven straight wins.
Since that game, Peterborough have recorded three
straight wins against Chesterfield, Barnet and Macclesfield where as we
only returned to action on the weekend with the goalless draw at home to
Grimsby.
Peterborough did us a favour on the weekend with their
comfortable 3-0 win at Macclesfield and at the same time boosted their
own play off hopes as Posh sit in fourth position on sixty-two-points,
with only one goal keeping them below Darlington in third position.
Peterborough are League Two's top scorers this season
with sixty-one so far, which is forty more than us, and although they
have the fourth best defensive record this season with thirty three
conceded, this is only nine less than us.
Aaron Maclean has netted twenty-three of
Peterborough's goals in the league and his goal on Saturday makes him
the league's top scorer as well.
McLean arrived at London Road at the beginning of
January in a £150,000 move from Grays Athletic after spending a couple
of months on loan prior to his move and is so far averaging a goal every
other game for Peterborough.
Recent Encounters:
The match at London Road earlier on this month ended
goalless with the main talking point being the twenty-man brawl after
Steve Evans clashed with Posh keeper Joe Lewis.
This was not the first match between the two teams
this season with Peterborough running out comfortable 4-1 winners at
London Road in the First Round of the FA Cup.
Our last win over Peterborough was back in December
2003 by two unanswered second half goals from Brian Carey and Hector Sam at the Racecourse.
The overall league record between the teams sees
Peterborough ahead with twenty-one wins to our fifteen and there have
been seventeen draws
in the fifty-three league games played.
Team News:
Wrexham are waiting on a decision on striker Drewe
Broughton after he completed a one month loan from MK Dons after the
Grimsby game on the weekend.
Broughton scored the penalty shootout winner for for
the Dons on Monday night and if Paul Ince allows Broughton to rejoin
Wrexham, Broughton could play his third game in four days against
Peterborough.
If Broughton does not feature then it will most likely
mean a first start in a Wrexham shirt for Rob Duffy but Michael Proctor
must be pushing for a first team start at the expense of Stuart
Nicholson, who, like Broughton, has failed to score during his one month
loan with Wrexham and Proctor has replaced Nicholson in the second half
of recent matches.
With Neil Roberts still sidelined with an ankle
injury, don't expect many changes to a Wrexham side that has recorded
three straight clean sheets.
Peterborough have captain Micah Hyde back for his
five-game absence because of a hamstring problem.
Jamie Day who missed the 3-0 win at Macclesfield with a back injury is
also fit to return.
Elsewhere in League Two:
The big game down at the bottom of the table is second
bottom Mansfield entertaining Bury in twenty-first position.
Third bottom Macclesfield are not in action but
Dagenham & Redbridge will be looking to continue their recent upturn
in form but face a difficult task at home to second placed Hereford. |
