The_Green_Man
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Well how about that? A third consecutive league win on the trot at Wimbledon on Saturday, something that we haven't achieved since last December when we had a nice little run and beat Coventry, Scunthorpe and Bradford!...If you are looking for a run of 4 consecutive league wins, then you need to look back to the beginning of last season when Adkins led us to 2 home and 2 away wins against Chesterfield, Peterborogh, Blackpool and Swindon during his honeymoon period......before being outed as shit (personal opinion of course).
So here we go in an attempt to match last seasons achievement of dizzy heights with a potential banana skin against a 6th placed, patchy Peterborough team who might be inconsistent of late but they definitely know where the back of the net is.
In the same fixture at the lane last season we lost 2-3. For those who can't remember it, it was that ridiculously frustrating game just after the new year in which we cam from behind twice, the second one in the 84th minute however Peterborough ran straight up the other end to score the winner.
The Opposition
For those wanting to use our last game against this lot to gauge an idea of who we need to look out for on Saturday, I wouldn't bother as on Saturday only 3 players who played against us last year started the game.
Peterborough are another club who have been quite active in the Summer and like us this started with a pretty large scale clear out as well as losing a key player in Jon Taylor to Rotherham United.
On the recruitment front it is safe to say that Peterborough have pretty much signed a new starting XI, the majority of which are raw, young players from around league one and two clubs with the exception of some top flight u21's on loan and a high quality loanee from Barnsley in George Moncur. A couple more notable signings being Hayden White and Ryan Tafazolli, both of which have been heavily linked with us on the past.
Anyway Peterborough now have an average squad age of 23 years of age with bags of pace in it.
Peterborough's Form So Far
Peterborough might be 6th in the table but truth be said they are only a draw better off than us and their form so far this season has been pretty hit and miss with a couple of decent wins but then also a couple of disappointing losses. On the road they have played three games and have managed to bag a couple of decent wins at Rochdale on the opening game of the season and MK Cons more recently.
We meet Peterborough on the back of three consecutive wins for us whilst they have drawn their last last two games at home, both of which being pegged back from winning positions and the last time out in particular must have been a bit of a sickener for them having gone in front on 84 minutes, only to concede with the last kick of the game to throw away 2 points.
I think the main thing that stands out like a sore thumb is that Peterborough are the leagues second highest goalscorers with 15 goals to their name already as well as 2 players on 4 goals a piece the same as our lad Billy... They also have plenty in midfield with the 2 wide men contributing 7 goals between them already this season and they already have 9 different goalscorers at the club this season, so again they have goals all over the shop!!!.....And as if they didn't have enough already they have now added George Moncur to the ranks and he bagged a brace on Saturday so again I say it, they are incredibly dangerous and can score for fun.
At the other end of the pitch though Peterborough have shown some defensive frailties having conceded 10 goals already this term. As I said above they have thrown away the last two games from winning positions so there is plenty of optimism for us and it promises to be a fairly open game.
In form players : Edwards & Nichols - 4 goals each.
Other notable players : Maddison - 3 goals, Moncur - 2 goals.
Betting:
Sheffield United Evens Draw 5/2 Peterborough 9/4
We are the bookies favourites what with going into this on the back of 3 wins and having the better of recent form, it seems the common price for us hangs around the wrong side of even money however a good few bookies are offering us at even money.
It is no shock really to see odds of around 1/2 for both teams to score. We seem to have found our scoring boots recently and Peterborough obviously know where the net is.....Obviously both of us seem prone to conceding at least one as well, Wimbledon being a prime example of this again for us on Saturday.....So all in all a pretty safe bet but no value in it what so ever...
One particular bet that stands out for the wrong reasons is Peterborough to be winning at half time but for us to come from behind and go on to win the game which pays a decent 22/1...........Whilst we don't want this to happen....Well we haven't made things easy for ourselves of late have we and our opposition score goals!.....It wouldn't be too far fetched for this to happen surely?
Anyway there seems to be as equal a spread on the draw as there is on a Blades win.....Are they merely going on the oppositions 2 draws on the trot? It looks a fairly open game with goals in it that's for sure....And I don't think I fancy honours even myself.
So here we go in an attempt to match last seasons achievement of dizzy heights with a potential banana skin against a 6th placed, patchy Peterborough team who might be inconsistent of late but they definitely know where the back of the net is.
In the same fixture at the lane last season we lost 2-3. For those who can't remember it, it was that ridiculously frustrating game just after the new year in which we cam from behind twice, the second one in the 84th minute however Peterborough ran straight up the other end to score the winner.
The Opposition
For those wanting to use our last game against this lot to gauge an idea of who we need to look out for on Saturday, I wouldn't bother as on Saturday only 3 players who played against us last year started the game.
Peterborough are another club who have been quite active in the Summer and like us this started with a pretty large scale clear out as well as losing a key player in Jon Taylor to Rotherham United.
On the recruitment front it is safe to say that Peterborough have pretty much signed a new starting XI, the majority of which are raw, young players from around league one and two clubs with the exception of some top flight u21's on loan and a high quality loanee from Barnsley in George Moncur. A couple more notable signings being Hayden White and Ryan Tafazolli, both of which have been heavily linked with us on the past.
Anyway Peterborough now have an average squad age of 23 years of age with bags of pace in it.
Peterborough's Form So Far
Peterborough might be 6th in the table but truth be said they are only a draw better off than us and their form so far this season has been pretty hit and miss with a couple of decent wins but then also a couple of disappointing losses. On the road they have played three games and have managed to bag a couple of decent wins at Rochdale on the opening game of the season and MK Cons more recently.
We meet Peterborough on the back of three consecutive wins for us whilst they have drawn their last last two games at home, both of which being pegged back from winning positions and the last time out in particular must have been a bit of a sickener for them having gone in front on 84 minutes, only to concede with the last kick of the game to throw away 2 points.
I think the main thing that stands out like a sore thumb is that Peterborough are the leagues second highest goalscorers with 15 goals to their name already as well as 2 players on 4 goals a piece the same as our lad Billy... They also have plenty in midfield with the 2 wide men contributing 7 goals between them already this season and they already have 9 different goalscorers at the club this season, so again they have goals all over the shop!!!.....And as if they didn't have enough already they have now added George Moncur to the ranks and he bagged a brace on Saturday so again I say it, they are incredibly dangerous and can score for fun.
At the other end of the pitch though Peterborough have shown some defensive frailties having conceded 10 goals already this term. As I said above they have thrown away the last two games from winning positions so there is plenty of optimism for us and it promises to be a fairly open game.
In form players : Edwards & Nichols - 4 goals each.
Other notable players : Maddison - 3 goals, Moncur - 2 goals.
Betting:
Sheffield United Evens Draw 5/2 Peterborough 9/4
We are the bookies favourites what with going into this on the back of 3 wins and having the better of recent form, it seems the common price for us hangs around the wrong side of even money however a good few bookies are offering us at even money.
It is no shock really to see odds of around 1/2 for both teams to score. We seem to have found our scoring boots recently and Peterborough obviously know where the net is.....Obviously both of us seem prone to conceding at least one as well, Wimbledon being a prime example of this again for us on Saturday.....So all in all a pretty safe bet but no value in it what so ever...
One particular bet that stands out for the wrong reasons is Peterborough to be winning at half time but for us to come from behind and go on to win the game which pays a decent 22/1...........Whilst we don't want this to happen....Well we haven't made things easy for ourselves of late have we and our opposition score goals!.....It wouldn't be too far fetched for this to happen surely?
Anyway there seems to be as equal a spread on the draw as there is on a Blades win.....Are they merely going on the oppositions 2 draws on the trot? It looks a fairly open game with goals in it that's for sure....And I don't think I fancy honours even myself.
