Bury 5-1 Peterborough United: result and report

League One · Saturday 14 January 2017

Result

Bury 5-1 Peterborough United

League One · Saturday 14 January 2017, 15:00 UTC · half-time 4-1

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Bury 5-1 Peterborough United: match report

Bury defeated Peterborough United 5-1 in the League One on Saturday 14 January 2017. It was 4-1 at half-time.

Tom Nichols opened the scoring in the 4th minute. Bury's goals came from James Vaughan (7'), James Vaughan (16'), James Vaughan (24'), James Vaughan (27') and George Miller (71'). Peterborough United scored through Tom Nichols (4').

Discipline: Bury received no yellow cards; Peterborough United received 2 yellow cards.

Going into the game Bury were 21st on 22 points from 26 and Peterborough United 9th on 38 points from 24. Bury went on to finish that season 19th with 50 points, and Peterborough United 11th with 62.

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 4 Bury wins, 0 draws and 2 for Peterborough United.

Going into the match Bury's last five read L-L-D-D-L and Peterborough United's D-D-D-W-W.

Data as of 5 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 4'Goal · Tom NicholsPeterborough United · 0-1
  • 7'Goal · James VaughanBury · 1-1
  • 12'Yellow card · Ryan TafazolliPeterborough United
  • 16'Goal · James VaughanBury · 2-1
  • 24'Goal · James VaughanBury · 3-1
  • 27'Goal · James VaughanBury · 4-1
  • 52'Yellow card · Michael BostwickPeterborough United
  • 71'Goal · George MillerBury · 5-1

Head-to-head

6 meetings: Bury 4, draws 0, Peterborough United 2.

Team news

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Bury line-up

Rob Lainton, Greg Leigh, Cameron Burgess, Antony Kay, Taylor Moore, Reece Brown, Jacob Mellis, Scott Burgess, Tom Pope, James Vaughan, Hallam Hope

Peterborough United line-up

Luke McGee, Michael Smith, Andrew Hughes, Ryan Tafazolli, Michael Bostwick, Chris Forrester, Leonardo Lopes, Gwion Edwards, Paul Taylor, Tom Nichols, Junior Morias