Peterborough Sports played well in defeat at the home of National League North title fancies.
Peterborough Sports boss Phil Brown was delighted with the performance of his side despite a 2-1 defeat at National League North title fancies South Shields on Tuesday.
Brown felt the game between two technically gifted sides was a great advert for the competition. The win kept Shields in second place behind AFC Fylde, while Sports stayed in the relegation zone ahead of a home game against play-off chasing Scarborough Athletic at PIMS Park this Saturday (December 20, 3pm).
All the goals arrived in the first-half with a splendid individual goal from Sports’ forward Luca Miller sandwiched between two Shields’ goals. The winner came after a cruel deflection in the final minute of the first-half.
"We should have got something from the game,” Brown told Peterborough Community Radio. “I saw a performance containing technical ability, heart, spirit and quality. In fact it was a top drawer spectacle for the division and a great advert for both clubs.
"We expected a tough game obviously and we got one, but we gave a team who might well the league a real run for their money on their own patch. We gave ourselves every chance of winning despite conceding a goal so early in the game.
"Luca’s goal was special and he is a boy going places. It’s a pleasure to be coaching him. Their second goal could have knocked the stuffing out of us, but we came out for the second half in the same vein and we had lots of good possession, many entries into the final third, but we just lacked that extra bit of quality to get another goal.
"We did everything we could to get something from the game, but all we ended up getting was a good performance which counts for nothing.”
Former Football League player Mustapha Carayol should return for the match against Scarborough, but there are doubts about captain Dan Jarvis, full-back Aaron Powell and centre-forward Ben Beresford.