Are Peterborough United on target for the play-offs? And what a formation change could look like
But the switch to three at the back would represent a selection gamble further forward.
The current 4-2-3-1 has been in good working order, but if manager Darren Ferguson did fancy a switch to 3-4-1-2 it could happen, although getting Kwame Poku and Ephron Mason-Clark into the latter system wouldn’t be easy.
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Hide AdIIf Posh do switch to two up top one assumes new signing Kabongo Tshimanga (unless Mason-Clark is moved centrally) would be the partner for Jonson Clarke-Harris and Dan Butler would have to become a centre-back.
Posh 3-4-1-2.
Norris
Kent, Edwards, Butler.
Ward, Kyprianou, Taylor, Ogbeta.
Poku
Tshimanga/Mason-Clark, Clarke-Harris.
POSH IN FEBRUARY
The average points required to finish sixth in League One, the final play-off place, is 74 so Posh need 30 points from 19 matches to reach that figure, which works out at 1.58 points per game.
The way the current top six are performing Posh could well need to get nearer to the 80 points required to reach the play-offs last season.
Obviously it’s a huge game against fifth-placed Bolton at the Weston Homes Stadium on Saturday and Ferguson’s men host leaders Plymouth Argyle on February 25.
But Posh could need to win their other games this month, all of them tricky, at Fleetwood next Tuesday (14th), at Morecambe a week on Saturday (21st) and at home to Charlton (28th).