Peterborough United 5-2 Chesterfield: result and report
League One · Saturday 10 December 2016
Result
Peterborough United 5-2 Chesterfield
League One · Saturday 10 December 2016, 15:00 UTC · half-time 2-2
Peterborough United 5-2 Chesterfield: match report
Peterborough United beat Chesterfield 5-2 in the League One on Saturday 10 December 2016. The half-time score was 2-2.
Tom Nichols opened the scoring in the 1st minute. Peterborough United's goals came from Tom Nichols (1'), Gwion Edwards (45+3'), Paul Taylor (55'), Tom Nichols (65') and Michael Bostwick (82'). Chesterfield scored through Ched Evans (22') and Liam O'Neil (25').
Discipline: Peterborough United received 3 yellow cards; Chesterfield received 3 yellow cards.
Going into the game Peterborough United were 6th on 29 points from 19 and Chesterfield 22nd on 18 points from 20. Peterborough United went on to finish that season 11th with 62 points, and Chesterfield 24th with 37.
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 4 Peterborough United wins, 0 draws and 2 for Chesterfield.
Going into the match Peterborough United's last five read L-W-W-W-L and Chesterfield's W-W-L-L-L.
Key events
- 1'Goal · Tom Nichols
- 12'Yellow card · Liam O'Neil
- 22'Goal · Ched Evans
- 25'Goal · Liam O'Neil
- 45+3'Goal · Gwion Edwards
- 55'Goal · Paul Taylor
- 63'Yellow card · Michael Bostwick
- 65'Goal · Tom Nichols
- 80'Yellow card · Derek Daly
- 80'Yellow card · D. Daly
- 82'Goal · Michael Bostwick
- 85'Yellow card · Bradden Inman
- 85'Yellow card · Bradden Inman
Head-to-head
Team news
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Peterborough United line-up
Luke McGee, Michael Smith, Andrew Hughes, Ryan Tafazolli, Michael Bostwick, Gwion Edwards, Chris Forrester, Leonardo Lopes, Paul Taylor, Shaq Coulthirst, Tom Nichols
Chesterfield line-up
Ryan Fulton, Gary Liddle, Ian Ross Evatt, Tom Anderson, Laurence Maguire, Liam O'Neil, Connor Dimaio, Jay O'Shea, Ched Evans, Rai Simons, Jake Beesley