A lot of goals at a Peterborough match shock
Yesterday I went down to Craven Cottage for the FA Cup third round tie between Fulham and Peterborough. The day started off in the usual style of a trip to Fulham with a sampling of over priced beers in the pubs of Hammersmith.
I had no idea of what to expect from the result, but I though that a lot of goals could be on the cards Macca had a bet on Danny Murphy being the first goal scorer. The only thing he seemed sure of was that the first goal scorer wouldn't be Diomansy Kamara.
At the ground the crowd was a dissapointing 16,000 with over 6,000 coming down from Peterborough for the game. We were sat near a couple of familiar faces with Barry Fry just behind us and the more popular George Boyd in front of us.
The game went in favour of the Premier League team and although as usual Tomlin and McCann looked competent in midfield and Mackail-Smith looked capable up front the defence that can look frail in League 1 looked really out of their depth against a Premier League attack.
It was rather predictably Diomansy Kamara who put the Whites 1-0 up 32 minutes and just before the break a rare but well taken goal by Dickson Ethu put the home team 2-0 up and it didn't look like the Posh would get back in the game. George Boyd had obviously seen enough as he went into the private bar at half time and didn't emerge for the second half.
Things were about to get worse for the posh though with Kamara scoring his second on 59 minutes and half time substitute Zoltan Gera (AKA Gearhead) causing the Posh all sorts of problems. In fact it was Gera who made it 4-0 when he slotted the ball away on 66 minutes. Peterborough deserved some consolation and it came on 71 minutes when probably their best player on the day Lee Tomlin scored. Any dreams that Peterborough might have had of getting back into the game were quickly dashed 5 minutes later though when Kamara completed his first ever hat trick in English football to make it 5-1 to the home team. Peterborough didn't lie down and die though and were rewarded for their tenacity with a penalty on 86 minutes. Up stepped Grant Mc.Cann and unlike the shots that he had been peppering in from the free kicks Posh had be awarded near the box he put it right in the back of the net. The only problem was that this just seemed to spur Fulham on more and in the last minute Jonathan Greenind, another player on as a sub, managed to hold off the defender to slot the ball in Lewis's net to make the score 6-2. It was probably this goal that summed up Peterborough's day, as a stronger defender would have probably beaten Greening to the ball.
I had no idea of what to expect from the result, but I though that a lot of goals could be on the cards Macca had a bet on Danny Murphy being the first goal scorer. The only thing he seemed sure of was that the first goal scorer wouldn't be Diomansy Kamara.
At the ground the crowd was a dissapointing 16,000 with over 6,000 coming down from Peterborough for the game. We were sat near a couple of familiar faces with Barry Fry just behind us and the more popular George Boyd in front of us.
The game went in favour of the Premier League team and although as usual Tomlin and McCann looked competent in midfield and Mackail-Smith looked capable up front the defence that can look frail in League 1 looked really out of their depth against a Premier League attack.
It was rather predictably Diomansy Kamara who put the Whites 1-0 up 32 minutes and just before the break a rare but well taken goal by Dickson Ethu put the home team 2-0 up and it didn't look like the Posh would get back in the game. George Boyd had obviously seen enough as he went into the private bar at half time and didn't emerge for the second half.
Things were about to get worse for the posh though with Kamara scoring his second on 59 minutes and half time substitute Zoltan Gera (AKA Gearhead) causing the Posh all sorts of problems. In fact it was Gera who made it 4-0 when he slotted the ball away on 66 minutes. Peterborough deserved some consolation and it came on 71 minutes when probably their best player on the day Lee Tomlin scored. Any dreams that Peterborough might have had of getting back into the game were quickly dashed 5 minutes later though when Kamara completed his first ever hat trick in English football to make it 5-1 to the home team. Peterborough didn't lie down and die though and were rewarded for their tenacity with a penalty on 86 minutes. Up stepped Grant Mc.Cann and unlike the shots that he had been peppering in from the free kicks Posh had be awarded near the box he put it right in the back of the net. The only problem was that this just seemed to spur Fulham on more and in the last minute Jonathan Greenind, another player on as a sub, managed to hold off the defender to slot the ball in Lewis's net to make the score 6-2. It was probably this goal that summed up Peterborough's day, as a stronger defender would have probably beaten Greening to the ball.
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