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Reserves: Day and Green on target but Posh can only draw
POSH RESERVES 2, Southend Reserves 2 THE Posh side at the top of a table were given the first opportunity to impress the club's new management team.
POSH RESERVES 2, Southend Reserves 2
THE Posh side at the top of a table were given the first opportunity to impress the club's new management team.Director of Football Barry Fry is so proud of the reserve team's position at the summit of the Totesport Combination League (East Division), he felt the urge to tell the national media about it during that bizarre press conference called to discuss the departure of Darren Ferguson last week.
Unfortunately Sky Sports and The Sun were more interested in tapping-up allegations than Shaun Batt's blistering goal form. Mark Cooper and Nicky Eaden took the opposite view and watched an entertaining game which didn't include any Batt goals, but a couple of players did take the opportunity to enhance their reputations.
Cooper said: "I liked the look of Josh Simpson, who used the ball well, while Dominic Green was impressive when he ran at defenders.
"To be honest I've seen these players many times so I didn't learn a lot that I didn't already know, but it was the first chance for players to impress in match situations and some took it."
Cooper's first Championship selection for the trip to Sheffield United on Saturday is not likely to include those in action at London Road yesterday, unless club captain Russell Martin did enough in his 45 minutes at right-back.
Jamie Day must have impressed when he curled home a superb equaliser from a set-piece in the 28th minute and Green fired home a fine strike from the edge of the penalty area five minutes later to put Posh in front, while young sub Jay Davies also delivered some fine touches.
But Ben Wright and Krystian Pearce missed sitters to make the game safe and Posh suffered when Southend skipper Stuart O'Keefe netted from a 25 yard free-kick in the 93rd and final minute. The visitors had opened the scoring in the sixth minute through James Walker.
"The referee must have had the game down as a score draw," Fry joked afterwards despite the absence of any cameras.
"He kept giving them free-kicks until they equalised."
Teams:
Posh: Coles, Martin (sub, Austin 46 mins), Day, Dove (sub, Davies 54 mins), Piergianni, Pearce, Simpson, McCrae, Wright, Batt, Green. Subs not used: Adjei, Ralph, Lee.
Southend: Joyce, Owinja, Osifuwa, James-Lewis (sub Dennis, 63 mins), Whittaker, Reynolds, Scannell, O'Keefe, Calver, Asante (sub Crawford, 80 mins), Walker (sub, Milner 85 mins). Sub not used: Dennis.
Goals: Posh - Day (28 mins), Green (33 mins).
Southend - Walker (6 mins), O'Keefe (90 mins).
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