LIVE: PETERBOROUGH UNITED v BRISTOL CITY: Late goal for City gives them fortunate win

Sammie Szmodics of Peterborough United takes on Cameron Pring of Bristol City. Photo: Joe Dent/theposh.com.

Peterborough United hope to continue their strong home form against Bristol City in a Championship fixture at the Weston Homes Stadium today (October 2, 3pm).

Former City player Sammie Szmodics is hoping for a recall to the Posh starting line-up for a game against his old club.

Follow all the action live on the PT blog below...

LIVE BLOG: Posh vs Bristol City

Key Events

3-2 Bristol City FT
Taylor, Grant and Clarke-Harris are replaced by Szmodics, Ward and Coventry
Clarke-Harris drops out of the squad
2-2 at the break after 3 goals in 8 minutes
Two goals for Szmodics against his old club

Sat, 02 Oct, 2021, 15:01 BST

1 mins

Looks like still the 4-2-3-1, Burrows out on the left, Szmodics in behind Dembele upfront.

Sat, 02 Oct, 2021, 15:00 BST

Kick-off

Sat, 02 Oct, 2021, 14:56 BST

Teams out

Sat, 02 Oct, 2021, 01:07 BSTUpdated 01:07 BST

Today’s other fixtures

Coventry vs Fulham

Barnsley vs Millwall

Birmingham vs Nottingham Forest

Blackpool vs Blackburn

Bournemouth vs Sheffield United

Cardiff vs Reading

Derby vs Swansea

Hull vs Middlesbrough

Luton vs Huddersfield

QPR vs Preston

Sat, 02 Oct, 2021, 14:14 BST

No JCH

The big news from that line-up is that Jonson Clarke-Harris is not in the squad, yet to be discovered if it’s an injury or his ban has kicked in. Taylor also drops out for Coventry and Ward comes in for Grant, looks as if Burrows is playing in behind Dembele and Szmodics.

Sat, 02 Oct, 2021, 14:05 BSTUpdated 14:18 BST

Bristol City line-up

Daniel Bentley, George Tanner, Tomas Kalas, Rob Atkinson, Cameron Pring, Matty James, Andy King, Joe Williams, Callum O’Dowda, Andreas Wiemann, Chris Martin

Subs: Max O’Leary, Tyreeq Bakinson, Zak Vyner, Sam Bell, Alex Scott, Kasey Palmer, Danny Simpson

Sat, 02 Oct, 2021, 14:03 BSTUpdated 14:07 BST

Posh line-up

Dai Cornell, Dan Butler, Frankie Kent, Ronnie Edwards, Nathan Thompson, Joe Ward, Oliver Norburn, Conor Coventry, Harrison Burrows, Siriki Dembele, Sammie Szmodics

Subs: Will Blackmore, Jack Taylor, Jorge Grant, Josh Knight, Kwame Poku, Idris Kanu, Joe Tomlinson

Sat, 02 Oct, 2021, 01:16 BST

Past meetings

The sides last met in League One in 2015, when Bristol City comfortably won the league with 99 points and Posh came 9th. That man again, Aden Flint scored for the hosts and ex-Posh man Kieran Agard.

Last 5:

17 Feb 15- Bristol City 2-0 Posh

28 Nov 2014- Posh 0-3 (Freeman 2, Wilbraham) Bristol City

11 Mar 2014- Posh (Bostwick) 1-2 (Baldock 10, 16) (El-Abd red card 20) Bristol City

14 Sep 2013- Bristol City 0-3 Posh (Barnett, Assombalonga)

29 Dec 2012- Bristol City (Baldock 2, Anderson, McManus) 4-2 (Tomlin red card 12) (McCann, Gayle)

Sat, 02 Oct, 2021, 01:05 BSTUpdated 01:05 BST

An hour from the teams, what do you think about this line-up?

PICK THE POSH TEAM: Old boy has to come in to face his former club and youngster should stay in the Peterborough United side for the visit of Bristol City

Peterborough United picked up a creditable draw against Bournemouth last time out at home so there is no need to make too many changes ahead of the visit of Bristol City on Saturday (October 2).

Sat, 02 Oct, 2021, 01:03 BSTUpdated 01:04 BST

Get well soon Nigel!

A reminder that Curtis Fleming, Bristol City’s Assistant Manager will be taking charge of the side today, as he did against Millwall. Late last week, manager Nigel Pearson tested positive for Covid. It was deemed that no one else part of the Bristol City set-up was a close contact of his in the relevant timeframe and therefore no other team member had to isolate.