Lincoln City 5-2 Peterborough United: result and report

Lincoln City 5-2 Peterborough United

League One · Sunday 4 January 2026, 12:00 UTC · half-time 3-1

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Lincoln City beat Peterborough United 5-2 in the League One on Sunday 4 January 2026. It was 3-1 at half-time.

Harry Leonard opened the scoring in the 24th minute. Lincoln City's goals came from Reeco Hackett (33'), Freddie Draper (45'), Tendayi Darikwa (45+2'), Adam Reach (57') and Tendayi Darikwa (90+1'). Peterborough United scored through Harry Leonard (24') and Kyrell Lisbie (56').

Discipline: Lincoln City received 2 yellow cards; Peterborough United received 3 yellow cards.

Going into the game Lincoln City were 2nd on 45 points from 24 and Peterborough United 11th on 32 points from 23. Lincoln City went on to finish that season 1st with 103 points, and Peterborough United 18th with 53.

Lincoln City lined up in a 3-4-2-1 and Peterborough United in a 4-2-3-1. The highest match rating in our data went to Tendayi Darikwa of Lincoln City (9.2), ahead of Reeco Hackett (8.8).

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 2 Lincoln City wins, 2 draws and 3 for Peterborough United.