It will be tough for Peterborough United to maintain their decent recent Easter record this season
Peterborough United appear to have a tough Easter programme with a trip to Luton Town on Good Friday followed by the visit of promotion favourites Cardiff City to the Weston Homes Stadium on Monday (both 3pm kick offs).
But the Easter weekend has been kind to Posh in recent seasons. The holiday period was late in the League One calendar last season, but draws for Posh at home to high-fliers Stockport County and at Barnsley secured their safety after a poor third-tier campaign. Ricky-Jade Jones scored in both games.
Posh finished on 51 points last season which was good enough for 18th place – the lowest League One finish of the 19-year Darragh MacAnthony era. Posh are on 50 points now with eight matches to play.
The only Easter defeat for Posh in the last seven seasons was a shock 3-1 home reverse at the hands of relegation-bound Carlisle United on Good Friday, 2024.
Posh even won their Easter games in their Championship relegation season of 2021-22. There were no Easter games in the Covid-wrecked campaign of 2019-20.
Posh have won six, drawn five and lost just one of their 12 most recent Easter games.
Posh at Easter...
2024-25: D1-1 v Stockport (H) (Jones); D1-1 v Barnsley (A) (Jones).
2023-24: L1-3 v Carlisle (H) (Randall); W2-1 v Orient (A) (Kyprianou, Mason-Clark).
2022-23: W3-0 v Shrewsbury (A) (Clarke-Harris, Mason-Clark, Taylor); W3-1 v Exeter (H) (og, Mason-Clark, Clarke-Harris).
2021-22: W2-1 v Blackburn (H) (Szmodics, Marriott); W2-0 v Barnsley (A) (Marriott, Taylor).
2020-21: W1-0 v Fleetwood (A) (Clarke-Harris); D1-1 v Sunderland (H) (Dembele).
2018-19: D1-1 v Fleetwood (A) (Maddison); D1-1 v Sunderland (H) (Godden).