Who will join these Posh players in assuming hero status with a match-winning display at the Abbey Stadium on Saturday (noon kick off)?
Posh have won 13 and lost 11 of 33 Football League meetings with Cambridge. They’ve only won twice on enemy ground.
1. DENNIS OAKES
Posh first beat Cambridge United in a Football League game in March 1972 when Oakes and Ritchie Barker scored in a 2-0 win in Division Four in front of just under 5,000 fans. Photo: David Lowndes
2. TOMMY ROBSON
A month later Robson (2), Barker (2) and Jim Hall scored in a 5-2 win for Posh at the Abbey Stadium to complete a league 'double'. Photo: s
3. GARY SARGENT
Posh beat Cambridge 2-0 in a Third Division promotion tussle at London Road in November 1977. Sargent and Tony Cliss scored the goals. Photo: David Lowndes
4. NOEL LUKE
It was almost another nine years before Posh beat Cambridge again. Goals from Luke and Errington Kelly enabled Posh to come from behind and win a Division Four game 2-1 in January, 1987. Photo: PT