Åh, argh, ih, nej….suk…farvel direkte oprykning?

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Registreret af bandeord har været mange som en anden kaptajn Haddock, da Pompey på Fratton Park tabte 0-3 på hjemmebane mod Newport, og dermed endnu engang smed vigtige point i kampen om at komme op i top 3. Ærgeligt da resultaterne gik Pompeys vej.
En sejr havde set Pompey komme ind i en afstand på 3 point fra direkte oprykning.

Afstand til pladsen uden for Play off, ja den er nu 4 point, så det var et dumt nederlag, og derfor må mange en fan have bandet godt og grundigt.

Som svenske Bo Kaspers Orkester synger i sangen stunder som den här:

Det finns som smärta som växer in

In i den väv som är ens liv

Å det finns studer av ljus och glädje

Mod och närhet

Det mjuka hjärtat

Älskling, det är vi

Ak ja, at holde med Pompey er en hård tørn til tider, ganske når man tror nu svigter holdet ikke, så ender man som lørdag.

Kampen

Pompey startede i deres klassiske 4-2-3-1 med McNulty på toppen, men Pompey måtte tidligt se sig som holdet der jagtede bolden, for Newport var bedst med fødderne!

Første mål til gæsterne, ja den må vores keeper Fulton tage på sin kappe. Et indlæg bliver headet højt op i luften, og alligevel ender Fulton med at tabe duellen uden for det lille felt, og så var Pompey bagud 0-1.

Uden at skaber de store chancer ja så holdt den stilling til pausen og 15 min inde i anden halvleg kom det afgørende moment.

For blev Pompey reduceret til 10 mand, da Gary Roberts fik sit andet kort. Det var noget Pompeyspillerne ikke forstod, men dommeren stod meget godt placeret.

Inden da havde Pompey forsøgt at sætte tempo og havde såmænd begyndt at nærme sig chancer. Så det røde kort, ja det var ærgerligt.

Newport endte med at score to gange mere, og de rykkede dermed op som nummer 18 i rækken.

En fan kom med denne præcise melding på vores situation mod hold under os:

Our approach to playing poorer teams at home does not work. This followed exactly the same pattern as others I have seen, such as Stevenage earlier in the season.

We are way too negative and predictable at home. Well organised, physically strong teams simply sit tight while we pass it across our defensive line side to side, and backwards, until we lose the ball and they counter.

There was no direct running through the middle, or any different moves, until Chaplin and Naismith came on when we at least looked a bit more positive and purposeful.

Pompeys manager Paul Cook gav en særdeles præcis konklusion på kampen

Pompey manager Paul Cook:

«It’s summed our season up in one game. We promise so much and yet we fail to deliver. That’s where we are as a team at the minute.

«We’re a League Two team with League Two players, I’m a League Two manager and, with that, you get inconsistencies. We’ve offered too many this season in my opinion to be promoted automatically.

«We have all believed that we could have been promoted automatically. With that result and performance, no matter what happens this season now, there’ll be a squiggle against us.»

Newport manager Wayne Feeney:

“I was frustrated the other night because I know how good they can be,”

“But I spoke to a few of my ex-managers in the week and they said ‘you’ve got to take it on the chin because they’ve been absolutely brilliant for you and you were due to lose a game because you’ve been flying’.

“The way I was as a player I always wanted to put it right and I said to the players ‘we’re coming to a big stadium and a big club so go and enjoy it – go and do what’s got you this far’.

“We’ve been working hard but we’ve also got quality and I thought we played very well today, even when it was 11 v 11, and their manager said we deserved it.

“I left Conor [Wilkinson] out because I went for a bit of pace up front with John Ayina,” he added.

“We let them have the ball and tried to hit them on the counter.

“We knew they’ve got quality players and they’d have a lot of the ball but I was pleased with how we distributed it when we got it – our front four or five were full of energy, full of legs.

“And I keep saying that the set-plays are massive in this league.

Kommentarer fra The News:

Too many fans at Fratton Park have too high an expectancy from the team and the manager…..?

Yes, we were provided with an impotent, gutless performance from a team that is consistent in only one respect – being inconsistent. However, the players clearly pick up on unrest and apathy from the stands which is often displayed as soon as the team concede – but yesterday was evident from the first kick of the game……

The crowd at Fratton Park needs to temper their criticism and realise that we are not a great team and in fact are a country mile from being one. They need our support and it must not be conditional on a great performance in every game. Imagine if, instead of getting on players’ backs when things don’t go well, we actually sounded our support – how different things might be…..?

And, no, I’m not blaming the crowd for these all too frequent disasters at Fratton Park – but we have a role to play in them – and the role we are playing is clearly not the role it should be! PUP!!

I could accept us losing to a better team but this performance was completely gutless. There was no urgency from the very first minute, sometimes you have to win the right to play football but there was no fight in this team. It was all Newport and we looked as if we thought we would walk it, so when things did not go our way we just gave up. Their second goal was a joke, not one of our player bothered to track back with the scorer so he was on his own to nod the ball into the net.
Robert should be fined his wages for each game he misses, I have not seen a replay of his dive but the trip was awful and he had seen the ref give out soft cards so why did he do it?
Not one pompey player came out of this match with any credit. A thoroughly depressing afternoon.
Please sort this mess out Mr Cook, that’s what you get paid for so do something, and do it NOW.

What I learned from yesterdays appalling performance from Cookies team:- 1.There are too many weak characters in the squad. Only Doyle seemed upset at how the team was performing. 2. Season long weaknesses are being really exposed i.e. no pacey big striker who rattles the opposition, no central midfielder with pace and tackling ability , and no commanding «keeper. 3. Playing a right footed winger on the left, and a left footed winger on the right seems pointless. and 4. Cook’s self fulfilling prophecies come true……………to quote » our only consistency is our inconsistency». Oh well, tomorrows another day and warmth and sunshine is forecast, which will be a nice change from the doom and gloom exhibited by the team on Saturday.

Once again we have proved we are not as good as Mr. Cook keeps telling us.we have the best fans who provide the money to get good players and yet the likes of Northampton with little money show us how to do it. Come on pompey prove me wrong

Obviously Newport didn’t get the message we sent to the rest of L2 on Tuesday.
At least Cookie has made sensible comments this time.
El Nino, you need to look at the TV replay again. IMO it was a definite dive by Roberts(when is it not)and I hope he gets fined for his actions. We may well not have got anything from the game with 11 players but, we as sure as hell wasn’t going to get anything with ten. I think we needed 2 forwards on from the start.

or those still feeling doom and gloom today.

Pompey are on 59 Points.

10 games to play = 30 Points.

Potential Pompey points = 89.

Last 5 Seasons, 7th Position points needed.
Lowest = 68
Highest = 72
Average = 70

For Pompey to achieve 71 points would require 4 wins from 10.

In the last 5 seasons, a team has won via the playoffs finishing 4th, 5th, 6th and 7th proving that final league position means nothing.

Is it really that bad?

Ratings fra The News:

Ryan Fulton: Should have done better for opening goal – 5

Ben Davies: Full of heart and desire – 7

Christian Burgess: Exposed on occasions – 6

Adam Webster: Had an off-day – 6

Enda Stevens: Defensively sound – 6

Michael Doyle: Never goes hiding – 8

Danny Hollands: Looked a game too far following injury return – 5

Gary Roberts: Stupid first booking so crucial – 5

Gareth Evans (1): Stupid first booking so crucial – 5

Kyle Bennett (2): Flattered to deceive – 5

Marc McNulty (3): Largely ineffective – 6

Subs:

(1) Michael Smith (46min): Struggled for shot power – 6

(2) Kal Naismith (61min): Little went right – 5

(3) Conor Chaplin (70min): Injected urgency – 6

League Two, Fratton Park, 12.marts 2016

Portsmouth – Newport 0-3 (0-1)

34 min 0-1 Jones

59 min Roberts udvisning 

69 min 0-2 Boden

87 min 0-3 Morgen

Pompey (4-2-3-1): Fulton; Davies, Burgess, Webster, Stevens; Hollands, Doyle (c); Evans (Smith 46), Roberts, Bennett (Naismith 61); McNulty (Chaplin 70)

Gule kort: Roberts (two yellow cards), Stevens, Hollands, Burgess

Bænken: Bass, Clarke, Barton, McGurk, Smith, Naismith, Chaplin

Tilskuere: 16,245 (386 away fans)