Peterborough manager Darren Ferguson was delighted with the response of his young team to their weekend defeat as Blackpool were put to the sword in a 5-1 win at the Weston Homes Stadium.
The Posh collapsed in the second half as they were beaten 3-1 at Wycombe last Saturday, but they were in rampant form against the Seasiders to pick up their first win in three games in Sky Bet League One.
Ferguson said: “Fair credit to them in terms of the response that they gave.
“The message was clear: We had to get a reaction, we had to stop conceding soft goals.
“Unfortunately, we did concede a soft one tonight. You could say it was a good bit of play by them, but after that I thought we dealt with things quite well, and we stuck our heads in the way, we stuck our bodies in the way.
“I thought we did the basics better, Archie Collins won a lot of balls, a lot of headers and they’re the basics.
“We know we’ve got the quality and now we’ve just got to try and get the consistency.
“The message [for the second half] was get more goals, simple as that, go and get the next goal.
“Then if you get the next one, get the next one and I thought at five we could have got more.”
Malik Mothersille’s first-time finish into the top corner gave Peterborough the lead, which they doubled through Joel Randall’s deflected effort.
Kyle Joseph’s tap-in momentarily brought Blackpool back into the game, but Kwame Poku restored the Posh’s two-goal lead within a minute.
The hosts pulled further clear in the second half as Ricky-Jade Jones turned in Poku’s low cross before Randall produced a lovely finish for his second.
Blackpool assistant boss Steve Agnew, again in charge in the absence of Steve Bruce, said: “It was an embarrassing defeat, really.
“To concede the three goals the way we did on transition, they have got the players going forward on transition and the speed of the play and technical players, but we let ourselves down defensively tonight.
“Mentally, to concede one and then two and it goes three before 30 minutes of the game, you don’t give yourselves any chance to win a game of football.
“We do give ourselves a chance to get back in it at 2-1, we’re thinking ‘yeah, go on then, let’s get back to what we were’, and very quickly the third one goes in and it then becomes a very difficult evening.
“Both of their wide players are quick in transition, difficult players to play against, but we knew that and the players knew that and you have to deal with it.”
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