Preview: P’Boro - Town

By Aston
August 22 2006

STB brings you team news, manager previews, the officials and betting odds ahead of Towns game against Peterborough tonight (KO 7:45pm).

The Posh might be without striker Justin Richards who faces a late fitness test but they will be without Lloyd Opara who is suspended and Danny Crow sidelined with ankle ligament damage.

 

Peterborough manager Keith Alexander: “Ipswich may not have had a good start to the season, but they will be extremely difficult opposition. They always play good attractive football and have been challenging for promotion in pretty much every year for the past decade and of course they have played in the Premier League.

 

“We have made a decent start to the season and this game will be an interesting game against Ipswich because it will show how much the lads have progressed. I hope the fans come down and support us because the fans have already played a massive part,” Alexander told

 

Town are with out Alan Lee, Owen Garvan and Gavin Williams due to injury and will be with out Simon Walton and Mark Noble as part of the loan arrangement.

 

Town Squad: Bowditch, Brittain, Bruce, Casement, Clarke, Currie, De Vos, Forster, Harding, Haynes, Naylor, Parkin, Peters, Price, Richards, Sito, Supple, Trotter, Wilnis.

 

Town manager Jim Magilton: “The game gives us an ideal opportunity to boost our confidence and build on Saturday's first point of the Championship season, I will make changes, but we will be going there to win. A passage into the next round will set us up nicely for Friday's league game at QPR.

 

“We will take the game as seriously as a Championship match.

 

“Peterborough will look upon it as a chance to make a name for themselves. They will roll their sleeves up and we will have to do the same.”

 

“Players who do not start tomorrow will be brought back on Friday, we are club that is going forward and the Peterborough match will give a chance to some players to show what they can do.

 

“We will be fully focussed and going all out to win.”

 

Betting Odds (found using Sportsnetwork Odds Checker):

P’Boro: 9/4

Draw: 12/5

Town: 13/10

 

Officials:

Referee: K D Hill

Assistants: G R Russell and K D G Lawson

Fourth Official: P C Martin

 

Sources: Evening Star and ThePosh.com

 

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