This young side have given so much pleasure for nine months and they battered an Oxford team in their final game of the season, but they just couldn’t break down a stubborn defence after the sides had traded goals towards the end of the first half. It’s Oxford who therefore go on to Wembley to face Bolton Wanderers with a 2-1 aggregate win under their belts. The 1-0 win at the Kassam Stadium a few days earlier, when Posh didn’t play well at all, proved decisive.
Posh opened the scoring with a Josh Knight goal from a Harrison Burrows set-piece, but crucially they couldn’t hold on to their lead until the break as a succession of sloppy moments gave Cameron Brannagan the chance to equalise from the penalty spot. Did you know with an ad-lite subscription to Peterborough Telegraph, you get 70% fewer ads while viewing the news that matters to you. Posh started the second half in blistering fashion, and finished it by coming close to a goal on several occasions, but a succession of time-wasting incidents, the reluctance of referee Andrew Kitchen to properly sanction some cynical fouling, some heroic defending and some unkind ricochets meant the season ended in disappointment.
Posh made two changes to their starting line-up with a predictable recall for attacking winger Kwame Poku in place of David Ajiboye and a win for Ricky-Jade Jones over Malik Mothersille in the battle for the centre-forward slot. Oxford were unchanged from the team that started the 1-0 first leg win at t.
