Peterborough United 4-1 Walsall: result and report
League One · Monday 3 January 2011
Result
Peterborough United 4-1 Walsall
League One · Monday 3 January 2011, 15:00 UTC · half-time 1-1
Peterborough United 4-1 Walsall: match report
Peterborough United beat Walsall 4-1 in the League One on Monday 3 January 2011. It was 1-1 at half-time.
Alex Nicholls opened the scoring in the 10th minute. Peterborough United's goals came from C. Mackail-Smith (36'), C. Mackail-Smith (71'), Nathaniel Mendez-Laing (81') and Ryan Bennett (90'). Walsall scored through Alex Nicholls (10').
Discipline: Peterborough United received 1 yellow card; Walsall received 1 yellow card.
Going into the game Peterborough United were 13th on 29 points from 20 and Walsall 23rd on 17 points from 20. Peterborough United went on to finish that season 4th with 84 points, and Walsall 21st with 48.
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 2 Peterborough United wins, 1 draw and 1 for Walsall.
Going into the match Peterborough United's last five read D-W-D-L-D and Walsall's L-W-L-W-L.
Key events
- 10'Goal · Alex Nicholls
- 30'Yellow card · Lee Tomlin
- 36'Goal · C. Mackail-Smith
- 71'Goal · C. Mackail-Smith
- 81'Goal · Nathaniel Mendez-Laing
- 83'Yellow card · Aaron Lescott
- 90'Goal · Ryan Bennett
Head-to-head
Team news
Peterborough United line-up
Joe Lewis, Mark Little, Kelvin Langmead, Gabriel Zakuani, Tommy Rowe, Chris Whelpdale, Arron Davies, Adam Clayton, Craig Mackail-Smith, Grant McCann, Lee Tomlin
Walsall line-up
Jon Brain, Darryl Westlake, Javier Klimowicz, Andy Butler, Aaron Lescott, Matthew Richards, Paul Marshall, Julian Gray, Steve Jones, Reuben Reid, Alex Nicholls