PETERBOROUGH boss Rob Lyon has challenged his side to win their final three league meetings and finish top of the Premiership.
They head to Sheffield tonight before facing the South Yorkshire side back at the East of England Arena on Monday. King’s Lynn are the visitors next Thursday to round off the league programme before the title deciders kick in.
As ever Lyon is playing down talk of winning the title as he wants to face one hurdle at a time.
Monday’s win at Wolverhampton in front of the Eurosport cameras fired a message to the other teams chasing glory. It was Wolverhampton’s first home defeat of the season.
Said Lyon: “That was a great win on Monday and it gives us that chance now of finishing top.
“We move onto Owlerton now and see what we can get from Sheffield but even though we have already won there once this season I’m taking nothing for granted.
“There’s still a lot of speedway to be raced and we have to take it one meeting at a time. That said I want to see us do our very best to win these final three meetings and finish top of the table.
“I haven’t even thought about who we may select if we finish top, the only time I will think about that is if we get the job done.”
Lyon is refusing to single any rider out for special praise as he believes he has a strong team unit.
“You can look down the score chart and see for yourself the top performers but every rider has a part to play and we are a good team,” he said.
“We work hard as a team and help each other, it’s going well so far.”
Lyon has booked King’s Lynn man Thomas Jorgensen to deputise for Ulrich Ostergaard tonight and Connor Mountain replaces Jordan Palin at reserve.
Sheffield have brought back James Wright, who started the season with them, at reserve to replace the man who replaced him, Stefan Nielsen.
SHEFFIELD: Jack Holder, Troy Batchelor, Kyle Howarth, Josh Pickering, Adam Ellis, Danyon Hume, James Wright.
PETERBOROUGH: Thomas Jorgensen, Bjarne Pedersen, Michael Palm Toft, Scott Nicholls, Chris Harris, Connor Mountain, Hans Andersen.