Macclesfield Town 2 Peterborough Utd 1

Basic Information

Date 17th February 2007.
Stadium Moss Rose.
Competition League Two.
Attendance 2,274 (307 away).
Officials Dermot Gallagher.
A. Halliday.
N. Bannister.
Alan Hendly.

Posh return to their old ways and appear to kiss goodbye to the play-offs, losing 2-1 at Paul Ince's resurgent Macclesfield Town. Darren Ferguson keeps with the same team that beat Wrexham, but Martin Bullock grabs the opening goal just before half-time. Aaron McLean scores the equaliser, but Alan Navarro's spectacular volley 3 minutes later is a worthy winner. Ferguson throws on 3 substitutes, but Posh only look like grabbing a point in injury-time: Craig Mackail-Smith blazes over from 12 yards and Danny Crow sees a header from a corner turned away by Tommy Lee. Ince has sympathy for his former team-mate: “Darren's a great friend, I had a word with him and told him not to beat himself up. I've only been in management three months myself — sometimes you want to open the champagne, and sometimes you want to kick the dog.”

Teams

Macclesfield Town
Management
Paul Ince
Ray Mathias (assistant)
Starting line-up
13 Tommy Lee
2 Carl Regan
4 David Morley
5 Danny Swailes
6 Martin Bullock Goal
7 Alan Navarro Goal Yellow Card
8 Colin Heath (-69')
10 John Miles (-87')
14 Kevin McIntyre
17 Jordan Hadfield (-73')
26 John Murphy
Substitutes
12 Matthew Tipton (loaned from Bury)
16 Izak Reid (+69')
19 James Jennings (+87')
23 Adam Murray (+73')
31 David Rouse
Peterborough Utd
Management
Darren Ferguson
Kevin Russell (assistant)
Starting line-up
1 Mark Tyler
2 Josh Low
3 Shane Blackett
4 Mark Arber
6 Micah Hyde Yellow Card
7 Adam Newton
8 Richard Butcher (-57')
14 Aaron McLean Goal
17 Jamie Day (-57')
28 Craig Morgan
30 George Boyd Yellow Card (-74')
Substitutes
12 Craig Mackail-Smith (+74')
16 Danny Crow (+57')
23 Ben Futcher
29 Gavin Strachan (+57')
31 Shwan Jalal