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Peterborough are ready to welcome Southampton to London Road Ground at tea-time on Saturday,
The previous match played between the two at London Road Ground was more than three years back, in August 2007, the Posh carving out a narrow 2-1 victory in a League Cup match.
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| Recent encounters between the teams: | |||||
| 2010/2011 | Sat 20 Nov | Southampton | 4 - 1 | Peterborough | LGE1 |
| 2007/2008 | Mon 13 Aug | Peterborough | 2-1 | Southampton | LGEC |
| 1996/1997 | Wed 25 Sep | Peterborough | 1 - 4 | Southampton | LGEC |
| 1996/1997 | Wed 18 Sep | Southampton | 2 - 0 | Peterborough | LGEC |
Recent respective form guides
Peterborough United are unbeaten in their last six home games, winning five of them, and drawing the other one. In this time, Posh have rattled up an impressive 19 goals, and conceded 8.
Southampton's away form is equally impressive, picking up four victories from the last six. Those games have seen the Saints pummel 16 goals, and let in 8.
Peterborough lie just outside the playoff positions in the Npower League One, picking up 42 points from their 26 games so far. Southampton are just outside the promotion places, in 4th, having taken 44 points from 26 games.
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| Current form guides: | P | W | D | L | F | A | P |
| Peterborough | 6 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 15 | 15 | 9 |
| Southampton | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 11 | 5 | 10 |
FootyMad's prediction ...
Peterborough are starting to turn London Road Ground into a fortress, but the quality of opposition for this game makes your FootyMad panel believe the teams will share the spoils on this occasion. Score draw
| Sequence statistics: | |
| Peterborough | Won 5 successive home games. 6 games since last home draw. Not drawn a match in their last 7 . |
| Southampton | 8 games since last away draw. Last drawn game 4 outings ago. |