Peterborough goalscorers catch Luke Williams’ eye in long-awaited win at Wycombe

Luke Williams praised Kyrell Lisbie and Cian Hayes for the goals that earned Peterborough a first league victory at Wycombe in 23 years.

Lisbie opened the scoring in the 37th minute and then set up Hayes for a clincher 22 minutes from time as a 2-0 win marked their first victory at Adams Park since November 2003.

Posh head coach Williams explained: “When you you can hit the ball early like Kyrell Lisbie did, and when you are arriving on to a tough cross with a lot of pace on it skipping across the six-yard box, as Cian Hayes did with his natural foot to make sure the ball crossed the line…that was the idea.

“But an idea is nothing without the players to go and execute it so what a brilliant example of those two of how to play wide players counter-attacking – one providing, one attacking the middle of the goal. Fantastic.”

Williams also name-checked a host of other Posh players, including defenders James Dornelly, 20, and George Nevett, 19.

He continued: “We have to talk about James Dornelly and George Nevett coming into the team after not so many minutes and being able to compete perfectly well and understanding everything.

“Tom Lees is a beast, CJ (Carl Johnston) is a beast, Alex Bass is a beast and Archie (Collins) protected them brilliantly well.

“Than we had the energy and enthusiasm of some really young players, they put their bodies on the line and were brave. What a lovely combination.”

The result saw Peterborough, who had a terrible start to the season under Darren Ferguson, sit in ninth place, four places off the play-offs.

Wycombe are two points behind as one of five teams on 36 points but have dropped to 12th.

However, manager Michael Duff suggested that his players deserved a higher position.

He said: “I’m disappointed because I thought we did more than enough to win the game, not even draw it. I thought we had enough chances to win two games.

“At 1-0 down it was one-way traffic against a really good team. In the first half I thought we cancelled each other out – two really good teams who were tactically trying to work each other out.

“We gave a really poor goal away, which happens, but it wasn’t just one mistake, there were about seven in it.

“In the second half we went to 4-4-2 and didn’t need to do anything apart from hope someone whacks it in the net. That’s the frustration.

“That was total dominance for a long period – and you have to score.

“But it’s the age-old saying – football is won in both boxes. We were better in between the two boxes but they were better in both boxes and that’s why they won the game.”