Bradford City vs Peterborough United - prediction, team news, lineups

A spot successful the EFL Cup quarter-finals volition beryllium astatine involvement erstwhile Bradford City invited Peterborough United to Valley Parade connected Tuesday.

The Bantams are unbeaten successful 11 competitory matches, portion the visitors person failed to triumph their past 3 matches.

Match preview

Bradford whitethorn beryllium successful the 4th round, but Michael Duff is acceptable to instrumentality complaint of his archetypal EFL Cup arsenic the Bantams brag aft being named Graham Alexander's successor earlier this month.

Prior to taking connected the manager's occupation astatine Preston North End, Alexander oversaw a 2-0 occurrence against Rochdale, a punishment shootout triumph implicit Burnley and a 3-1 triumph against Leyton Orient successful the archetypal 3 rounds of the EFL Cup.

As a result, the Bantams are present looking guardant to making their archetypal fourth-round quality since making an bonzer tally to the last successful the 2012-13 season.

Duff volition transportation an unbeaten grounds into Tuesday's fixture, having started his tenure with 4 consecutive cleanable sheets successful League One, though lone 1 of those matches yielded a three-point haul.

After drafting 0-0 with Leyton Orient successful Duff's archetypal crippled successful charge, Bradford claimed a 2-0 triumph implicit Stevenage, earlier playing retired back-to-back goalless draws successful distant games against Burton Albion and Oxford United, leaving them successful 3rd spot successful the League One table.

The Yorkshire outfit person present gone 11 competitory matches without defeat, and they volition besides surely instrumentality assurance from the information they person won each of their past 3 location meetings with Peterborough, including a 2-0 occurrence erstwhile the 2 sides faced disconnected successful August. 

Like the hosts, Peterborough are nether comparatively caller absorption aft Robbie Savage was appointed arsenic Luke Williams's successor astatine the commencement of the month.

In the EFL Cup, Williams led Posh to a 1-0 triumph implicit Bristol Rovers, a 5-1 thrashing of Watford and a punishment shootout occurrence against Barnsley.

Despite guiding Peterborough to the 4th circular for the archetypal clip since 2009-10, Williams was dismissed aft picking up conscionable 1 triumph from their archetypal 7 league games of the season. 

Savage began his tenure with a 3-1 triumph implicit his erstwhile nine Leicester City, but helium is inactive waiting for his 2nd triumph aft seeing his broadside muster 2 points from the past 3 games.

After rescuing a constituent against Burton Albion, Posh fell to a dense 4-1 distant decision against Huddersfield Town earlier Vernon Masara netted a stoppage-time equaliser to salvage a 1-1 gully successful Saturday's gathering with Bromley.

However, that constituent could not halt Peterborough from finishing the play successful the bottommost four, with a constituent seperating them from safety.

Posh volition present enactment their endurance combat connected clasp arsenic they caput connected their travels for Tuesday's EFL Cup tie, knowing that a archetypal triumph astatine Valley Parade successful 9 years would spot them done to the past eight. 

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Team News

Bradford winger Josh Neufville is making advancement successful his betterment from a hamstring injury, but helium is astir 2 weeks from making a instrumentality to action.

Forward Stephen Humphrys is besides a uncertainty aft missing Saturday's gully against Oxford United with a backmost issue. 

Adam Phillips and Jake Beesley are options to commencement if Duff opts to freshen up his starting lineup for the fourth-round tie. 

As for the visitors, they are incapable to telephone upon the services of Rio Adebisi, Ben Woods and Sam Hughes owed to injury. 

Midfielder Matthew Garbett sat retired the gully against Bromley with a knock, truthful helium volition request to beryllium assessed up of the midweek cupful tie.

Defender Josh Feeney could instrumentality to the starting lineup aft being rested astatine the play pursuing a engaged play for Posh and the Scotland Under-21s. 

Bradford City imaginable starting lineup:

McCracken; Pennington, Baldwin, Pratt; O'Keeffe, Sarcevic, Connolly, Touray; Lapslie, Phillips; Beesley

Peterborough United imaginable starting lineup:

Bass; Johnston, Mendonca, Feeney, Mills; Kelly, Khela; Shofowoke, Williams, Edwards; Leonard

We say: Bradford City 2-0 Peterborough United

Bradford are enjoying a agelong unbeaten run, and having recorded 4 consecutive shutouts, we deliberation their sturdy backline volition supply the instauration for a palmy evening, particularly arsenic they already person the erstwhile acquisition of beating Peterborough astatine Valley Parade this season. 

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