Peterborough United vs Salford City: Live Blog as Posh get FA Cup campaign underway

Zak Sturge tries to dig out a cross against Salford. Photo: David Lowndes.placeholder image
Zak Sturge tries to dig out a cross against Salford. Photo: David Lowndes.
Peterborough United host Salford City in the first round of the FA Cup at the Weston Homes Stadium (November 4, 3pm).

The two sides met at exactly the same stage last season with the match ending in a drab 0-0 before Posh ran out 3-0 victors in front of the TV cameras at Salford.

Posh may revert to a line-up close to the one which beat Blackpool last Saturday after making seven changes before the midweek victory over Spurs U21.

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

LIVE: Posh vs Salford

Salford corner

Mallan shoots over from 30 yards and is taken straight off for Lund.

What a tactical masterstoke.

Fernandez guides a brilliant header into the bottom corner past Cairns after a cross from the left.

91 mins 2-1 Salford

Looked like a chance for Mothersille after a flick on from JCH but Cairns springs off his line to close the angle and make the block.

As shockingly low amount

89 mins 2-1 Salford

Fernandez has gone up front....

Looks like a front three with Mothersille, him and JCH.

Crichlow, Ricky off

Fernanadez and Mothersille on.

87 mins 2-1 Salford

Poku finds JCH with a great cross into the box, balloons off his head, nowhere near goal.

86 mins 2-1 Salford

Ingram yellow card for just not taking the throw in. This is hard to watch now.

84 mins 2-1 Salford

Posh don’t seem to have any ideas of how they’re going to break down Salford.

79 mins 2-1 Salford

Posh corner, ball into the box from Poku looking for JCH, headed away.

Triple Posh change

Katongo, Randall, Sturge of

Edwards, JCH, Burrows on

Salford in full time wasting mode now.

Smith refuses to follos the ref’s orders to go off on the far side, walks over to the far side instead.

Connor McLennan comes on in his place.

Theo Vassell also comes on for Mariappa.

Salford take the lead and it’s an absolute calamity.

Sturge passes back to Bilokapic, the keeper just completely misses the ball and it goes under his foot and rolls into the net.

Salford can’t live with Poku.

He’s destroying the backline every time he coems forward, beats Ingram on the right, a few of his calssic rolls, fires across goal but just misses the far corner.

He really is Posh’s only outlet.

It’s all Posh now, Jones waits too long to get a shot away after Poku again drives into the box, he picks him oiut of tne right of the box all alone but he’s not clinical enough.

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