A look ahead to Tuesday night’s Carabao Cup first round tie at the Kassam Stadium against Oxford United (7.45pm).

Peterborough United are in Carabao Cup action on Tuesday evening with a first round tie against Sky Bet Championship side Oxford United at the Kassam Stadium (7.45pm). 

Darren Ferguson’s men go into the game on the back of an opening day defeat to Huddersfield Town at the Weston Homes Stadium, while Des Buckingham’s men were 2-0 winners over Norwich City. 

The two sides met in the Sky Bet League One play-offs last season with Oxford securing a victory over the two games to set themselves up for a final at Wembley, which ended in success and promotion to the Championship.

TEAM NEWS

Posh are definitely without midfielder Hector Kyprianou, Ryan De Havilland, Rio Adebisi and George Nevett due to injury. 

Ferguson has confirmed he won’t make wholesale changes to his starting line-up but did admit there may be one or two alterations. Defender Sam Curtis and Mahamadou Susoho may have their minutes managed as they were late arrivals to the club.

Oxford had a positive start to the campaign, but could make changes with former Posh loanee Peter Kioso expected to come into the XI. 

ONE TO WATCH

Cameron Brannagan

United signed Cameron from Liverpool for an undisclosed fee on a three-and-a-half-year deal on 11th January 2018. The midfielder had been at Anfield since the age of five and made three senior appearances for the Reds, as well as representing England at both U18 and U20 levels. He had a loan spell at Fleetwood Town in 2016/17, helping them to the League One play-offs. Cameron won the Players’ Player of the Year award for 2018/19 and at the end of the 2020/21 season signed a new contract to keep him with the U’s until 2023.

MANAGER QUOTES

“I have always been quite consistent when it comes to this competition, I won’t be making wholesale changes. Yes, there will be a couple, but nothing too dramatic. Oxford had a good win on Saturday, I watched that game, they performed well as a team against a strong opponent. We were in on Sunday, we watched the good things and the not so good things from the performance against Huddersfield,” Darren Ferguson said. 

• Click here to watch the Manager’s pre-match interview for FREE on Posh+

TICKET NEWS

Tickets will be on sale in advance until 12pm on Tuesday from the Weston Homes Stadium Ticket Office and online at www.theposhtickets.com. As of 2.30pm on Monday, just under 350 had been sold. Tickets will be available at the away ticket office from 6.30pm at the Kassam Stadium. There is no price rise, tickets will be available at the general admittance rate, which you can find here.

POSH+

Audio passes are available for tonight’s fixture priced at £5.

KIT COLOURS

Posh will be in the brand new third shirt for the game. You can purchase that shirt here. 

IMPORTANT INFORMATION

The game will go straight to penalties if the scores are level after 90 minutes.

MATCH OFFICIAL

The referee is Geoff Eltringham.