Leicester 1-1 Peterborough: Sunday Mirror match report
Published 20:00 10/12/11 By MirrorFootball
Nigel Pearson was a frustrated man after seeing his Leicester side held 1-1 at home by Peterborough in the Championship.
Leicester-born Lee Tomlin, once a Foxes ball-boy and a member of his home-town team’s Youth Academy, earned Posh a point.
The Foxes dominated the first half and finally broke through on 56 minutes with a goal by Paul Gallagher.
But Posh refused to buckle and equalised when Tomlin took advantage of hesitant defending to head home.
Pearson said: “That was two points dropped. We had plenty of opportunities.
“We should have kicked on after we had got the goal, but we then made too many errors, like not tracking players, and allowed them back in to it.”
Posh boss Darren Ferguson was quick to praise Tomlin. He said: “I am pleased for Lee. He’ll be telling the whole of Leicester about it tonight. He did really well today and deserved the goal. He’s a local lad, but that didn’t affect his performance, as it sometimes can.”
It had been one-way traffic towards the visitors’ goal in the first half, but City were unable to show the finesse needed to break down Posh’s stubborn defence.
Leicester had a penalty claim waved aside when Tommy Rowe appeared to handle inside the box, before Jermaine Beckford first headed wide from close range and then shot against a post.
And in first-half stoppage time Joe Lewis pulled off a stunning save to keep out Sean St Ledger’s header.
Peterborough had been restricted to a single chance before the break when Kasper Schmeichel had to race from his line to deny Emile Sinclair after a mistake by Sol Bamba.
The Foxes seemed to take a grip on the game just before the hour, when David Nugent fed Gallagher who fired in off a post from 12 yards.
But Leicester let their concentration slip and conceded on 71 minutes when Sinclair’s cross found Tomlin unmarked.
