Peterborough United 3-1 Stevenage: Burrows, Katongo and Poku score in win

Harrison Burrows in action for PeterboroughImage source, Getty Images
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Harrison Burrows converted a first-half penalty to put Peterborough in front

Peterborough continued their charge back into League One automatic promotion contention by beating play-off chasing Stevenage 3-1.

Harrison Burrows' spot-kick, a stunning first league goal for 19-year-old Jadel Katongo and Kwame Poku's clincher earned a fifth straight league success.

Stevenage would arguably have been disappointed to still be level at the break after being the dominant first-half side, so Luther James-Wildin's reckless challenge on Ephron Mason-Clark to gift the hosts a 44th-minute penalty - coolly converted by Burrows - will have come as a hammer blow to former Posh boss Steve Evans.

Evans' Stevenage also had the first big chance of the second period when Posh keeper Jed Steer pulled off a full-stretch save to keep out top scorer Jamie Reid's header.

But it was Posh who found the net again as Manchester City loanee Katongo embarked on a marauding run from inside his own half, exchanged passes with substitute Malik Mothersille and steered a low shot past Taye Ashby-Hammond in the 64th minute.

Mothersille was again the architect when Poku sealed the points with a ferocious 77th-minute finish, before Nick Freeman hit a consolation in the 85th minute for Stevenage as they slipped to a first defeat in five games.

Report supplied by PA Media.

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