Peterborough United match-winner on playing in different positions, finding ways to win and Tuesday's big derby game

Poku scored the goal – his first since New Year’s Day – that delivered a 2-1 win for Posh against Exeter City at the Weston Homes Stadium on Saturday, but only after he’s left his usual station on the wing to play as a number ‘10’.

He could well stay there for the visit of local rivals Northampton Town on Tuesday if manager Darren Ferguson decides to give Joel Randall a break as Posh have two back-up right wingers available in David Ajiboye and on-loan Brentford star Michael Olakigbe.

The match is a crucial one for Posh as it’s one of their games in hand on top two Portsmouth and Derby County. Third-placed Bolton Wanderers travel to fourth-placed Barnsley on the same night.

Ephron Mason-Clark scored the other Posh goal after a terrific run and shot from Malik Mothersille. He now has 17 goals in all competitions, 12 of them in League One. Poku has 10 goals, nine of them in League One which are excellent returns from wingers.

"I don’t mind where the manager chooses to play me,” Poku said. “I was happy to go and play inside against Exeter and thankfully it came off. I’d had a couple of shooting chances earlier in the game which didn’t come off, but I didn’t want that to stop me having a go. Shooting across the goalkeeper is the sort stuff you work on at the training ground.

"I was just happy to play my part in an important win. We made silly mistakes in the first-half despite Ephron’s improvised finish, but we bounced back well after they equalised and started to dominate.

"There were spells in the game when we played well and spells when we didn’t play so well, but it’s all about finding ways to win.

“We dominated the individual battles all over the pitch in the second-half which we will need to do to win games for the rest of the season. Michael and David came on and did well so it was a good all-round performance.

"The manager was right to take me off before the end as I’m not long back from injury and games are coming thick and fast now.

"It’s a derby game next and we are all looking forward to that and if we show the same levels of application in that game as we did against Exeter and at Blackpool in the Trophy semi-final we will be fine.”