02/09/2025
02/09/2025
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Mick George Training Academy

Bespoke Builds Training Ground

The Posh Under 21s welcome Cardiff City to the Bespoke Builds Training Ground on Tuesday afternoon (1pm).

The Peterborough United Under 21s will look to protect their unbeaten start when they entertain Cardiff City Under 21s at the Bespoke Builds Training Ground on Tuesday afternoon (1pm).

Sam Gaughran's side picked up three points on the road last time out at AFC Bournemouth thanks to a late Joe Davies strike sit fifth in the fledgling table with the Bluebirds down in 10th. 

TEAM NEWS

With the first team in action in the Vertu Trophy on Tuesday night and the transfer deadline day concluding at 7pm, working on who will be involved for the 21s aside from the usual group is hard to predict. 

Joe Andrews skippered the team last time out while Lucca Mendonca was also involved in the XI. Andre Changunda is expected to be unavailable with a hamstring injury.

FROM THE MANAGER

"Cardiff always produce a lot of good young players, if you look at their first team group now, a lot of them featured against us last season at this age group. It will be a tough game, but to be honest, I don't think many games will be as tough as the one at Bournemouth last week. We have had a good start to the season and we want to keep that going, but there is no point dwelling on previous games, we have to focus on what is in front of us," Sam Gaughran said.

OPPOSITION

Cardiff were beaten 2-1 in their last fixture but also recorded an emphatic 3-0 win on the road at Crewe Alexandra, so they have had a mixed bag of results so far. 

UPDATES

You can follow updates of the game on the club's X account, which can be found here

Action between Posh Under 21s and Cardiff City Under 21s

The Posh Under 21s were beaten 4-1 by Cardiff City at the Bespoke Builds Training Ground on Tuesday afternoon.

Peterborough United Under 21s suffered their first defeat of the season at the Bespoke Builds Training Ground to Welsh side Cardiff City.

A set-piece goal gave Posh the lead, but the visitors scored four times without response and suffered a first defeat of the campaign.

Posh started the game on the front foot, with Trialist A finding Conn-Clarke who drags his early effort wide. With eleven minutes on the clock, De Havilland found Conn-Clarke who spun his man and forced a save from Cardiff goalkeeper Higgs.

After a long spell of possession, Posh suffered multiple fast breaks, with both Spiers and Perrett both having shots saved by Bilokapic. Spiers broke down the right flank on 20 minutes and his shot rebounded off the post from close range.

Posh took the lead when a corner from the left hand side was headed home by Fabian CLAXTON.  Posh felt they should’ve got into the break in the lead, but Cardiff equalised well into stoppage time of the first half, as Jake DAVIES found the back of the net.

Posh started the second half with a change, as Trialist A was substituted for Trialist B, in what seemed to be a like-for-like change.

Sam Gaughran’s men started off slightly stronger, but Jake DAVIES got his second of the afternoon for the opposition, as Cardiff completed the turnaround with 62 minutes on the clock. 

Cody TWOSE and Troy PERRETT took the game beyond doubt from Posh as two quick fire goals made it 4-1 to the Bluebirds, the second of which being from long-range.

Posh managed to create two good chances with ten minutes to go, with Conn-Clarke’s and McWilliams-Marcano’s shots blocked and saved.

Posh Under 21s have a two week break until they are next in action, where they face Colchester United U21s at the Weston Homes Stadium on the 16th September.

Posh Under 21s: Bilokapic, Freeman, Fitzpatrick (sub Joseph 77min), De Havilland, Arber (sub Christoudias 85min), Claxton, Davies, Sykut, Kamara (sub McWilliams-Marcano 63min), Conn-Clarke, Trialist A (sub Trialist B 45min).

Unused Sub: Westcott.

Half-Time: Posh U21s 1-1 Cardiff City U21s
Full-Time: Posh U21s 1-4 Cardiff City U21s
Referee: Lee Hible