Wycombe Wanderers manager Matt Bloomfield has praised Peterborough United boss Darren Ferguson ahead of Saturday's fixture.

It’ll be the first time the two head coaches will meet in their respective dugouts with both sides being on great form.

The Chairboys have won eight of their last 12 games in all competitions, whilst Peterborough have only lost three of the opening 12 league fixtures.

Additionally, the Posh sit six points off the top two automatic places in fourth, whilst Wanderers are eighth.

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Bloomfield told the press: “I’ve got so much respect for Darren as he’s had a brilliant managerial career.

“He’s had so much success at Peterborough as his team have a lot of continuity, they’ve added some fresh faces and they’ve recruited very well over the summer.

“They’ll be a top team to face and I love the way he sets his team up.

“They attack well as he’s very attacking-minded and we’ve seen that over the years.

“We can expect a side with good attacking threat, they like to play with the ball, they get the ball into the box, they’ve got Jonson Clark-Harris who is a huge goal threat and he’s been like that for several years, they’ve got good dribblers, they dominate the ball and have experience.

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“So we’ll be aware of how tough it’ll be on Saturday.

“But we’ve been playing well away from home in recent games too.

“I know we had the losses against Charlton and Portsmouth but there were many positives to take from them, and then, we had that very good afternoon at Fleetwood where we played well.

“For us, it’s all about the performance, especially away from home and we want to do that again this Saturday.”

The fixture has become somewhat of a grudge with Wanderers recently getting the upper hand over their Cambridgeshire-based counterparts.

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After Wycombe pipped Peterborough to a play-off place in 2020 via the points-per-game system due to the Covid-19 pandemic (Wanderers were sitting outside the top six but were propelled to third, whilst the Posh dropped out), some individuals at London Road felt somewhat aggrieved by the decision.

And last season, the Chairboys completed the double over Peterborough with an aggregate score of 6-1, whilst also defeating the side in the EFL Trophy via a penalty shootout.

Bloomfield continued: “We believe in the group.

“Ideally, we weren’t looking at calling the game off [last week] but Cheltenham had the right to do so which they did.

“We would have wanted to keep up with the good work we’ve been doing as we wanted to strike that balance.

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“Now and again it’s good to get that break and freshen up and we hope that it won’t impact our performance.

“We had good momentum before the break but these things are part of football so we just need to try and alleviate those issues.

“We’ve missed a Saturday but we played Stevenage in the week and some of the boys had games with their respected nations.

“I feel we’ve had good continuity so hopefully that’ll put us in good stead.”