LIVE: Peterborough United vs Nottingham Forest- Posh trail at the break

Peterborough United host Nottingham Forest in a must-win Championship tie this afternoon (April 23, 3pm).
Ricky-Jade Jones starts for Peterborough UnitedRicky-Jade Jones starts for Peterborough United
Ricky-Jade Jones starts for Peterborough United

Anything that isn’t a Posh win will see them relegated to League One for next season, even if they draw and Reading lose, it will not be official but it will be as good as given Posh’s poor goal difference.

It may still happen anyway if Reading win but Posh must do all they can first and hope for the best.

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

LIVE: Posh vs Nottingham Forest

Key Events

  • 3pm kick-off
  • Posh must win or they are relegated
  • Reading face Hull away
  • Joe Ward could return from a dead leg
  • Forest are 5th, having lost 1 of their last 13 league games

84 mins 1-0 Forest

Posh doingwhat they can but struggling to make an impression, a lot of timewasting, particularly by Samba.

81 mins 1-0 Forest

Burrows shot from the left. Has to go across goal, he’s never going to score from there.

80 mins 1-0 Forest

Forest go straight up the other end ad Grabban is in space. Chooses to cut inside when a good shooting chance opens up, great block by Kinght on the slide.

79 mins 1-0 Forest

Decent sniff of a chance thre. Nice lofted ball over the top from Poku. Burrows is onside but Spence is quicker and stronger and snuffs it out.

Fuchs coming off has definitely unbalanced Posh, it’s taken away some of the ability to press and win the ball but it’s hard to criticise McCann for doing it.

Surridge off, centre forward Lewis Grabbon on.

Oh wow, finally a Forest booking. Surridge with both arms on Knight and pulls him down.

This is going to happen but Posh have no choice. Cornell with a good save from Colback on the right of the box. He hits a first-time shot from about 5 yards out after a quick break.

Szmodics booked, it’s a clear late foul to try and stop a break. No complaining about that but the lack of any bookings for Forest players to this point is astounding.

66 mins 1-0 Forest Posh sub

Rnadall replaces Fuchs as Posh go for it.