He has to balance the need to bust a gut to reach a Wembley final with a desire to keep his better players fresh for a League One promotion push that has stalled badly this month.
If anything a defeat to Blackpool at home on Saturday makes tomorrow’s game more important. This is a Posh team in need of any sort of win to breathe some confidence into the squad, and reaching a Wembley final would be a huge boost for everyone.
It’s a situation made more complicated by a trip to local rivals Cambridge United next Saturday when Posh will be keen to end a miserable run of results at the Abbey Stadium.
The PT did consider resting the entire first-choice XI, but that would be asking for trouble having raised hope among the fanbase that a first Wembley trip for 10 years was in the offing.
Instead we made three changes to the team that lost to Blackpool at the weekend, but retained the 4-2-1-3 formation.
It’s a situation made more complicated by a trip to local rivals Cambridge United next Saturday when Posh will be keen to end a miserable run of results at the Abbey Stadium.