 Crawley Town 1 |
Peterborough Utd 0 |
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Basic Information
| Date | 21st July 2012. |
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| Stadium | Broadfield Stadium, Crawley, West Sussex, England |
| Competition | Friendly. |
| Attendance | 1,036. |
| Officials |  Carl Berry. |
Posh begin their pre-season with a defeat at Crawley, still reeling from the sudden departure of new manager Sean O'Driscoll to Nottingham Forest. The home side make a bright start: Billy Clarke and Mat Sadler go close, before Gary Alexander capitalises on Mark Little's poor back pass. Tommy Rowe has one of only a few Posh chances. Despite all the outfield players being changed at halftime, Posh still struggle. Crawley's Morgan Ferrier has the best chance of the half, only to blaze over from 3 yards following Sergio Torres's low cross. Darren Ferguson says after the he expected the result: "It was a really good game against a team miles ahead of us in terms of fitness. Crawley were having their forth game of the summer and they are a good side as well."
Teams
| Crawley Town |
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| Management | |
 Craig Brewster (caretaker) |
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| Starting line-up | |
| - | Paul Jones |
| - |  Mark Connolly |
| - | Kyle McFadzean |
| - |  Claude Davis (-60') |
| - | Mat Sadler |
| - |  Hope Akpan (-59') |
| - | Dannie Bulman (-59') |
| - |  Nicky Adams (-60') |
| - | Josh Simpson (-77') |
| - | Billy Clarke (-60') |
| - | Gary Alexander (captain)  (-67') |
| Substitutes | |
| - |  Michel Kuipers |
| - | Arron Wickham (+77') |
| - | Dan Evans |
| - |  Jonte Smith |
| - | Louis John |
| - | Charlie Wassmer |
| - | Scott Davies (+59') |
| - |  Sergio Torres (+59') |
| - | David Hunt (+60') |
| - | John Akinde (+67') |
| - | Scott Neilson (+60') |
| - | Morgan Ferrier (+60') (on trial) |
| Peterborough Utd |
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| Management | |
| Darren Ferguson |
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| Kevin Russell (assistant) |
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| Starting line-up | |
| 1 |  Robert Olejnik |
| 5 |  Gabriel Zakuani (captain) (-46') |
| 8 | Lee Tomlin (-46') |
| 11 |  Grant McCann (-46') |
| 14 | Tommy Rowe (-46') |
| 17 | Joe Newell (-46') |
| 19 | Mark Little (-46') |
| 23 | Lee Frecklington (-46') |
| 25 | Peter Grant (-46') |
| 26 | Paul Taylor (-46') |
| 44 | Nathaniel Mendez-Laing (-46') |
| Substitutes | |
| 4 | Shaun Brisley (+46') |
| 6 | Michael Bostwick (captain) (+46') |
| 7 | Danny Swanson (+46') |
| 9 | Tyrone Barnett (+46') |
| 10 | George Boyd (+46') |
| 13 | Joe Day |
| 16 | Daniel Kearns (+46') |
| 20 | Nathaniel Knight-Percival (+46') |
| 24 |  Kgosi Ntlhe (+46') |
| 30 | Michael Richens (+46') |
| 39 | Levi Wright (+46') |