2018-19: Portsmouth – Peterborough 2-3

And now to something completly different.

Efter kampen tirsdag aften, så var der fest, i Luton og Barnsley! For med nederlaget på 2-3 til Peterborough, ja så er de to klubber rykket direkte op i Championship, mens Pompey skal ud i play off.

Slut med drømme om direkte oprykning, nu hedder det først to semifinaler i Play Off, og her må Pompey gerne sikre 3.pladsen i weekenden, så det ikke hedder Charlton eller Sunderland i en semi!

Stemningen endte noget fladt på Fratton Park, hvor tilskuerne på et minut så skæbnen forvandle fra glædesrus til tomhed, da Pompey fik mål annulleret til 3-2 og derefter scorede Peterborough til 2-3.

Portsmouth manager Kenny Jackett havde ændret i sin start XI, Ronan Curtis startede inde sammen med James Vaughan, mens resten af holdet var som det har været i mange kampe!

Fratton Park så et tændt Pompeyhold komme ud og spillede godt, men evnen til at holde nullet har ikke været en stærk side, og på to fejl i forsvaret, som ellers har fået meget kredit, ja så var Pompey nede med 0-2 efter 27 min!

Fansene gav opbakningen og Pompey angreb mod et Peterborough hold der stillede sig dybt med mange spillere bag bolden, for en 0-2 føring, det var mere end perfekt for gæsterne.

Pompey havde muligheder men det blev midtbanespileren Ben Close der gav håb med det vigtige mål inden pausen!

Pompey skiftede ud i pausen, ind med Oli Hawkins og ud med Vaughan som ikke havde været god, det samme gjaldt desværre for Ronan Curtis der ellers har lavet +10 mål og assist, hvad der ikke er mange der gør på en sæson.

Curtis blev udskiftet efter 10 min af anden halvleg, og ind kom Solomon-Otabor, der skabte mere, men som også skulle vise sig senere at få en fatal afgørelse på kampen.

Udligningen kom efter et længere pres, Hawkins spillede Christian Burgess, der bevarede roen og udlignede til 2-2, og så havde Pompey momentum, og Fratton Park var eksatisk.

Så kom det afgørende moment, vores anfører Brett Pitman blev sendt afsted alene med keeperen, og Pitman der er den der altid søger afslutninger, ja han valgte at spille bolden på tværs til Solomon-Otabor, som bare var offside selvom han scorede i det tomme mål.

En idiotisk fejl af Solomon-Otabor ikke at holde sig bag Pitman, og Pitman, ja han skulle bare have været selvisk og afsluttet.

The Posh, ja de gik ned i næste angreb og scorede til 2-3! Noget af en mavepuster.

Pompey lykkede ikke rigtig med at skabe noget farligt, og så endte det med et nederlag, som betyder det hedder Play Off!

 

Kommentar fra Twitter

#Pompey Fans should stop blaming the ref. Yes, he was shit, but don’t overlook the 2 counter attacks we outnumbered the goalkeeper were we could of won the game. Players got to take the blame for bottling it. Just hope they can accept they failed and push on in the play offs.

What a game !! The moaners will moan the haters will hate, but the boys gave 100% and that’s why we had the result we did. Both sides battled after some professional time wasting but we’ve all done it. Dust down and focus #pompey #EFL #pup

#Pompey fans if you’re feeling shit this morning, it’s nothing compared to how we’re going to feel if we don’t go up via the play offs!

Great to see #Pompey come back from 2-goals down and nearly win the game. Unlucky yesterday

@VivSolomon17 with the offside goal Thought you played really well last night

Fancy us in the playoffs. Let’s secure 3rd on Saturday and back the team.

Honestly think the players have given it all this season. It’s a tough ask when injuries and loan recalls mean you have to build again in January, and it has cost us, but you can’t say anyone in this team hasn’t pulled their weight. We go again. 3 cup finals. We got this. #Pompey

Don’t understand how people believe Viv is a good player. Not only did he mess up the goal which I add needed to control somehow but also had clear run at goal but messed that up as well, the guy can’t cross or pass literally just has pace that’s it. #pompey

Uncharacteristic performance from #Pompey last night. A little bit too “gung-ho” for my liking and it cost us. Play was very “frantic” as KJ put it and Posh exploited the gaps clinically. Maddison my MOTM everything went through him and Brown couldn’t handle him. Go again #Pompey

 

Portsmouth manager Kenny Jackett:

‘Defensively, I don’t think we did badly, but we were stretched. We lacked the time control, we perhaps were trying to go forward too early too many times, particularly in that period where we didn’t have enough process.

‘I didn’t think our shape was right and, in terms of the accuracy of our passing and the control of our passing, that wasn’t right either.

‘We were playing frantic football for the last 30 minutes and I don’t think it gave us enough in terms of control.

‘‘After Peterborough scored their third, we perhaps went too far in, too quickly, and over committed and got quite frantic with our play, barring Ben Close.

‘He had quite a good amount of control throughout the game and we did need that. It is very, very important that we get more control to our play when we need that.

‘We did very well to get it back into it and, at 2-2, were looking forward to the big finish and trying to do everything we could to try to get that win.

‘The players were not lacking effort or attitude at all, but we did lack control.’

 

Peterborough manager Darren Ferguson

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League One, Fratton Park, 31. april 2019

Portsmouth – Peterborough 2-3 (1-2)

13 min 0-1 Tomlin

27 min 0-2 Toney

38 min 1-2 Ben Close

59 min 2-2 Christian Burgess

75 min 2-3 Toney

Portsmouth: (4-2-3-1): MacGillivray; Thompson, Burgess, Clarke, Brown; Naylor, Close; Lowe, Pitman (c), Curtis (Solomon-Otabor 54); Vaughan (Hawkins 46)

Bænken: Bass, Walkes, Morris, Evans, Bogle, Hawkins, Solomon-Otabor

Gult kort: Brown og Lowe

Tilskuere: 18.396 (235 away fans)