Kevin Blackwell knows that points must be won at Peterborough United tonight to maintain a top six challenge:

"The next couple of games are massive but the play-offs are still there for us because there are a lot of points to play for.

"We finished the last two seasons very strongly from about this point in and anything can happen - I just don't want us to waste this opportunity.

"Admittedly, we are still trying to find a system that suits our players away from home. Last season 4-3-3 enable us to set a club record but that was with different personnel who knew each other well."

The Posh are rooted to the foot of the table after winning promotion last season but the United manager is under no illusions about the opposition:

"We expect a tough game but we will approach it with confidence, try and take the initiative and take it from there

"Jim Gannon has changed the team and the way they play, and with our reports suggesting that the London Road pitch is awful at the moment I expect them to hit balls from back to front towards Liam Dickinson. We will have to adapt our game plan to the pitch."

Peterborough appointed Gannon after Mark Cooper was dismissed on 1 February and after their latest loss on Saturday the new man dismissed his team's chances of survival, but Blackwell regards the comment as a motivational tool:

"He has inherited a set of players who have probably underperformed, but I don't believe that any manager seriously throws the towel in with so many games left to play.

"I know Jim, he is a shrewd cookie, and he has probably said what he has in the hope that his players can play feeling that a lot of the pressure that have been under has been removed."