PREVIEW: BELLE VUE v PETERBOROUGH (Sports Insure Prem)

BELLE Vue have another opportunity to extend their lead at the top of the Sports Insure Premiership table when they host Peterborough tonight (Monday).

The Aces are five points clear at the summit despite their defeat at Leicester last week, and closest challengers Wolverhampton are on KO Cup duty this evening.

The meeting also marks the first in British racing for new Panthers signing Vadim Tarasenko, who makes his debut at the National Speedway Stadium and comes in at No.5 for the visitors.

Belle Vue CEO Mark Lemon expects Tarasenko to make an impression for the league’s bottom side, but is confident of extending his own team’s winning run at home.

Lemon said: “Tarasenko is highly rated by his peers and fast. I’m sure he’ll be at home at the National Speedway Stadium as his uncle Artem Laguta was last week.

“On paper, Peterborough are looking much more solid than they did the last time we met in Manchester and the competition between the clubs is, subconsciously, getting fiercer.

“But I don’t have to tell the boys how to do their job. We know what’s at stake as we move into the second half of our season and I’m confident we can get the job done, as we have before.”

BELLE VUE: Dan Bewley, Tom Brennan, Jaimon Lidsey, Charles Wright, Brady Kurtz, Norick Blodorn, Jake Mulford.
PETERBOROUGH: Niels-Kristian Iversen, Ben Cook, Benjamin Basso, Richie Worrall, Vadim Tarasenko, Hans Andersen, Jordan Jenkins.