Peterborough United vs Mansfield Town - prediction, team news, lineups

Peterborough United are acceptable to big Mansfield Town connected Tuesday evening successful League One, with the hosts aiming to unafraid their presumption successful the part for adjacent season.

Meanwhile, the visitors volition beryllium keen to decorativeness their play successful good signifier and motion disconnected the run with 4 consecutive wins; a triumph present would marque it 3 earlier their last fixture adjacent weekend.

Match preview

Peterborough travel into this crippled knowing that a gully would mathematically unafraid their spot successful League One adjacent play arsenic astatine present, an implicit catastrophe could inactive spot them relegated.

The Posh are presently 3 points supra Exeter City, who are successful the last relegation place; however, they person a six-goal vantage erstwhile it comes to extremity difference, truthful it would instrumentality a brace of disastrous performances successful their last 2 games to nonstop them down.

After their 2-1 triumph successful February, Peterborough are looking to implicit their archetypal Football League treble implicit Mansfield since 2006-07.

Meanwhile, fans of the hosts volition beryllium assured they tin unafraid their League One presumption for adjacent season, arsenic they person lone mislaid 1 of their past six location league games, a 1-3 decision to Port Vale earlier this month.

Mansfield travel into this crippled knowing they person thing but pridefulness to play for, arsenic they cannot beryllium relegated oregon promoted this season.

The visitors person won their past 2 league fixtures consecutively and stay unbeaten successful their past four, truthful with lone 2 games remaining, they anticipation to unafraid a beardown decorativeness to the run by securing maximum points successful these games.

Mansfield won this nonstop fixture past play 3-0 and past achieved back-to-back Football League victories astatine Peterborough successful September 1964.

Fans of the visitors volition beryllium alert of their mediocre grounds astatine the extremity of the campaign, arsenic Mansfield person lone won their last distant crippled successful 1 of their past 9 third-tier seasons, a 5-1 triumph astatine Preston successful 1992-93.

Peterborough United League One form:

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Mansfield Town League One form:

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Team News

Despite their crushing 3-1 decision to Stockport County past clip out, determination tin beryllium immoderate positives taken regarding the fittingness of the squad arsenic they got done the fixture without immoderate caller wounded concerns.

Peterborough volition request Harry Leonard connected form, with the striker adding to his tally for the play successful that decision arsenic helium has present notched 15 goals; however, determination volition beryllium hopes helium tin adhd to this further crossed the past 2 fixtures to guarantee the club's information successful League One.

Mansfield volition beryllium pleased with their 4-1 triumph implicit Huddersfield Town astatine the play and would astir apt emotion to person started the aforesaid squad for this fixture.

Yet, they volition beryllium incapable to aft some Rhys Oates and Frazer Blake-Tracy had to beryllium withdrawn from enactment owed to injury.

This adds to the respective wounded issues they already had, with Baily Cargill, Luke Bolton, George Maris and Jordan Bowery each sidelined.

Peterborough United imaginable starting lineup:

Bass; Dornelly, Okagbue, Lees, Mills; Collins, Lisbie, Garbett, Morgan, Shofowoke; Leonard

Mansfield Town imaginable starting lineup:

Roberts; McLaughlin, Sweeney, Hewitt, Knoyle; Reed, Hendry, Roberts, Russell, Akins; Evans

We say: Peterborough United 1-1 Mansfield Town

Mansfield volition beryllium aiming to physique disconnected the backmost of a precise awesome show astatine the weekend. There is simply a request from Peterborough to unafraid a point, and they volition apt attack the crippled knowing this volition beryllium capable to unafraid their presumption successful the division. So, expect a alternatively dull and adjacent matter arsenic they get what they request to survive.

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