Dean Holden is fully aware of Peterborough United’s attacking threats ahead of Tuesday’s clash at the Weston Homes Stadium.
Peterborough, who boast the division’s leading goalscorer in Jonson Clarke-Harris, come into the contest full of confidence having claimed a 5-2 triumph over high-flying Plymouth Argyle last weekend.
Only Ipswich Town, Sheffield Wednesday and Plymouth have scored more goals than the Posh this term.
“I’ve watched a lot of Peterborough in the past 48 hours,” Holden said. “Clarke-Harris is obviously the standout in terms of his goals and assists. They’ve got some really exciting young players in those forward areas in [Ephron] Mason-Clark and [Kwame] Poku. [Joe] Ward has got a lot of assists from full-back, too.
“It’ll be a tough game for us,” he continued. “They suffered a heavy defeat to Bolton a couple of weeks ago and they lost the next one at Fleetwood, but then they responded by beating Morecambe 3-0 and then they went and beat Plymouth 5-2 so clearly they’ll be in a little bit of form.”
The Addicks are yet to discover the severity of the hamstring injury suffered by Chuks Aneke during Saturday’s clash against Sheffield Wednesday.
“He had a scan this morning,” confirmed the gaffer. “We’re now waiting for the radiologist to report on that. Hopefully by teatime today [Monday] we’ll have a clearer understanding of what that looks like, but at the moment there’s no news.”
Asked if there were any fresh injury concerns ahead of Tuesday’s trip, Holden said: “Following on so quickly from Saturday's game, today was quite a light session in terms of on the grass. We did a lot in terms of analysis and we had a few out on the pitch doing some work in terms of getting ready for tomorrow. As is always the way with a Saturday-Tuesday turnaround, we’ll have a good sit-down this afternoon as a staff, with the physios, to see exactly who’s fit enough to go again tomorrow.”
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