25/08/2025
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AFC Bournemouth Performance Centre

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The Posh Under 21s are in action on Bank Holiday Monday at AFC Bournemouth (12pm).

The Peterborough United Under 21s will look to maintain their unbeaten start to the Professional Development League season when they make the long trip to the South Coast to face AFC Bournemouth on Bank Holiday Monday (12pm).

Lead Under 21s Coach Sam Gaughran will have a younger group at his disposal for the clash with the Cherries with first team manager Darren Ferguson set to have a practice game involving his squad on Tuesday.

TEAM NEWS

With a Premier League Cup tie at Arsenal on Tuesday for the Under 18s, Gaughran will be without the serivces of striker Bolu Shofowoke, who scored in the 18s defeat at Watford on Saturday.

Joe Andrews is expected to get minutes in what will be a squad largely made up of young professionals and trialists. 

FROM THE COACH

"It is always a tough game whenever you travel down to Bournemouth. We have faced them multiple times at various age groups over the last few seasons and you know it will be a challenge for the players," Sam Gaughran said.

OPPOSITION

Bournemouth have won both their opening matches, a 2-1 success away at Wigan Athletic and a comfortable home victory over Huddersfield Town.

UPDATES

There will be updates on the Academy X page which can be found here

Joe Davies

Joe Davies netted the only goal of the game as the Posh Under 21s maintained their unbeaten start to the season at AFC Bournemouth.

On a sweltering hot day, the Peterborough United Under 21s claimed an excellent three points as a solitary strike from Joe Davies earned Sam Gaughran's side a 1-0 victory at AFC Bournemouth.

On paper, it looked a tough assignment for Posh, with three trialists in their XI and coming up against a Cherries side with a 100% record from their first few games in Professional Development League action,  but a well drilled Posh side largely nullified the obvious threats of the hosts and grabbed a winner late in the second half. 

Goalkeeper Ben Westcott made a brave stop inside the opening five minutes and produced a fine save late on, but in between, the central defensive pairing of Lucca Mendonca and Fabian Claxton, supported by Davon Gbuajumo and Noah Freeman in the full-back positions, were resolute. 

Skipper for the day Joe Andrews saw a shot saved at the other end and was combative in midfield and as the game wore on, Posh looked more of a threat and grabbed the only goal of the game as Trialist B picked out the onrushing DAVIES who fired low past the goalkeeper from 10-yards.

Lead Under 21s Coach Sam Gaughran said:  "It was a really committed performance and very pleasing to see the togetherness of the squad. They were throwing themselves into tackles, defending the box well and that is what you have to do sometimes, sometimes you will suffer in a game and that is twice this season already, where they have come under pressure and stood up to it.

"We got ourselves into some good positions at the other end, we could have done better with a few situations, but Joe took his goal well.  Ben has made a couple of good saves, one inside the first few minutes and if that goes in, it might have been a different game, but it didn't and in truth, aside from late on where he made a really good stop, they haven't really caused us too many issues and they are a strong side with players in their XI who have had a lot of first team experience in the league and below."

Posh: Westcott, Freeman, Claxton, Gbuajumo, Mendonca, Trialist A, Andrews, Sykut, Trialist B, Davies, Trialist C. Subs: Fraser, Sammour, Kamara, Norville.