Preview: Aaron Wildig keen to help Shrewsbury Town beat Peterborough

Graham Turner's side snapped their worrying eight-game winless run in convincing style last Saturday with a much-needed 2-0 home win.

And Wildig said the team will now head into Saturday's daunting trip to second-placed Posh with greater confidence as a result.

"We will fancy it a lot more now we have got that win under our belts,100 per cent," he said. "Last Saturday was a big win for us and we have got to look forward to going to the most fancied team in the league this weekend."

On paper, Town's visit to London Road certainly looks one of the most daunting away trips in the division.

Darren Ferguson's side have hit the ground running this year in a bid to bounce back from last season's unfortunate last-gasp relegation from the Championship.

They have won nine of their first 11 league games of the season, including four out of five at home, and boast the division's third most prolific attack, having scored 23 goals.

They also have the joint-second best defence in the division, having leaked just eight, and they will enter this weekend's clash on the back of a four-game winning streak in league and cup.

The majority of their goals have come from the prolific strike partnership of Britt Assombalonga and Tyrone Barnett.

But Wildig is confident that Town have enough firepower of their own to hurt their hosts, and he said that back-to-back wins would remain the objective tomorrow regardless of the opposition.

He said: "Apart from their first few games last year in the Championship they competed very well throughout and I think they have kept pretty much the same players.

"They have lost a couple, but it is still one of the most difficult places to go to and get a result.

"But there is no risk of us over-estimating them. We are going to go there to try to win the game. We never just set out our stall to sit deep.

"We have shown throughout the season we have got pace on the counter-attack and I believe we can score in every game at the moment. There's no reason why we can't go there and get a good result."

The recent additions of Cristian Lopez and Liam McAlinden, on loan from Huddersfield and Wolves respectively, certainly appears to have boosted Town's attack, which has relied heavily on the form of five-goal top-scorer Tom Bradshaw.

Both players performed impressively in their debuts last weekend, with McAlinden scoring Town's second goal having replaced Lopez from the bench.

McAlinden's 81st-minute finish, his first Football League goal, was crucial not just in the context of the game, but Town's season so far.

Town had surrendered a lead in five of their opening 10 league games and had shipped late goals in their previous four matches prior to Gillingham.

And Wildig said that goal has given everyone a vital shot in the arm.

"We just needed to see out a game and it was a great boost for everyone to do it on Saturday," he said.

"That second goal just helped everyone from the back to the front to see out the final 10 minutes."

"If we didn't get that we'd have probably had a bit of an onslaught so that was great for us."