Forget the formbook Peterborough United are set to face a team with huge threats in Stevenage
Peterborough United boss Luke Williams is taking no notice of the current form table ahead of the Tuesday night League One game at Stevenage (7.45pm kick off).
Over the last 10 League One games Posh have the second best points tally in the division of 22. They’ve won seven of those matches and lost just twice.
In contrast Stevenage have won just one of their last 10 League One games and collected a meagre eight points. Only three teams have a worse recent record, although tonight’s hosts are still proving hard to beat. Five of those 10 games have been drawn.
And Williams points to the November meeting between the teams at London Road when Posh struggled to land a blow in a 1-0 defeat, a result that took Stevenage to the top of the table, as proof of how hard tonight’s game will be. Stevenage were 14 points and 20 places ahead of Posh after that night, but now the gap is one point and one place.
But Williams said: “Stevenage remain very hard to beat. We had such a tough game with them at our place and we are trying to prepare as best we can for the threats and challenges we will inevitably face.
"Stevenage would be crazy not to want to take ideas and the attitude from that game as they were outstanding. They don’t approach too many games in a different way and why would they as they’ve been formidable? If they do something different we will adapt.
"But we have to be confident as we’ve been proved to each other we can find solutions and overcome problems. As we’ve progressed as a group the opposition have inevitably tried to make things more difficult.
"We’ve had to recognise things won’t often be exactly how we want them to be, but the players have responded. We’ve had attackers sacrificing themselves to defend for the team and defenders sacrificing themselves to help out in attack. As a result we’ve responded very well to setbacks. It reflects very well on the personalities in the group.”
Peter Kioso could return at right back in place of James Dornelly to the Posh starting line-up after suspension tonight, but otherwise the team that won at Wycombe Wanderers on Saturday will remain intact.