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Peterborough pack their bags to visit Rochdale at Spotland on Monday afternoon, having the edge over their hosts in previous meetings. The visitors have won 6 of the 18 previous games, with the hosts winning just 5.
The previous match played between the two at Spotland was more than three years back, in November 2002, as the Dale edged out their past their rivals by a score of 3 - 2 in a F.A. Cup match.
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| Recent encounters between the teams: | |||||
| 2005/2006 | Sat 22 Oct | Peterborough | 3 - 1 | Rochdale | LGE2 |
| 2002/2003 | Sat 16 Nov | Rochdale | 3 - 2 | Peterborough | FAC |
| 1999/2000 | Tue 18 Apr | Rochdale | 1 - 2 | Peterborough | LGE2 |
| 1999/2000 | Sat 01 Apr | Peterborough | 3 - 3 | Rochdale | LGE2 |
| 1998/1999 | Sat 03 Apr | Rochdale | 0 - 3 | Peterborough | LGE2 |
| 1998/1999 | Sat 17 Oct | Peterborough | 2 - 0 | Rochdale | LGE2 |
| 1997/1998 | Sat 17 Jan | Peterborough | 3 - 1 | Rochdale | LGE2 |
Recent respective form guides
Rochdale need to improve on their recent home record of just 3 draws from the previous six. While Dale have scored 4, a worringly large 8 have been leaked at the other end.
Peterborough's away form is none too clever either, winning and losing 3 each of the last six games. The Posh's have a narrow positive goal difference over these games, with 8 goals for and 7 against.
Rochdale are currently lying in 19th place in Coca Cola League Two having mustered a points tally of 47 from their 40 matches played. Peterborough's total of 59 points from their 42 games sees them sitting in the playoff places in Coca Cola League Two.
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| Current form guides: | P | W | D | L | F | A | P |
| Rochdale | 6 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 10 | 3 |
| Peterborough | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 7 | 4 |
FootyMad's prediction ...
Peterborough are in reasonable form away from home coming into this match, and the Madmen are quite confident that they should come away with a comfortable victory from this contest. Away win
| Sequence statistics: | |
| Rochdale | Failed to win in previous 8 home matches. Drawn each of their last 2 games. Not won in the 6 most recent games. |
| Peterborough | 10 games since last away draw. Last drawn game 5 outings ago. |