«Stop Me If You Think You’ve Heard This One Before».
The Smiths gamle sang rammer meget godt, for det er den samme sang, intentionerne er der, men det lykkedes i den grad ikke for Pompey.
Skal Pompey trække noget positivt ud af kampen, så var der langt flere offensive elementer og Pompey lykkedes med at få bolden i feltet langt mere end hidtil.
Men desværre lykkedes Plymouth at få fat i bolden og køre den rundt i perioder så presset ikke lykkedes.
Begge hold havde begrænsede muligheder, således sagde Xg 0,79 og 0,80 for de to hold, men hvordan Pompey kunne lave en så stor fejl der ledte til sejrsmålet, ja det må være en gåde og der må være en spiller der i den grad græmmer sig.
Pompey skal hold fast i moment fra kampen og undgå at lukke så dumme mål ind, tankevækkende er det at Plymouth inden kampen ikke havde haft et eneste clean sheet, det har de så nu.
The Championship, Home Park, 5. november 2024
Cardiff – Portsmouth 1-0 (0-0)
82 min 1-0 Obafemi
Pompey (4-2-3-1): Schmid; Williams (Devlin 65), Poole (c), McIntyre, Ogilvie; Potts, Dozzell (Saydee 85); Ritchie (Silvera 74), Lang, Murphy (Moxon 85); Yengi (O’Mahony 74)
Gult kort: Lang, Potts
Bænken: Archer, Towler, Pack, Kamara, Devlin, saydee, Silvera, Moxon, O’Mahoney
Tilskuere: 16,647 (1,143 Pompey fans)
Portsmouth manager John Mousinho
“It’s probably the toughest one to take this season because of our performance and how much we restricted Plymouth. To come away with nothing from the game is a real blow and the difference between the sides is that we couldn’t put the ball in the back of the net.
We just gone done by a real sucker punch after not dealing well enough with the long ball over the top.
For all the world I think it’s a foul on Regan Poole – it gets given anywhere else on the pitch and I can’t understand why it wasn’t given. But we have to be better to make sure those refereeing decisions or a slip from us doesn’t make a difference.
I thought the energy was there from us from the very first minute – it was chalk and cheese from the dross we served up at Stoke and Cardiff. We showed quality on the ball and mixed things up by going direct at the right times, while also dealing with everything Plymouth threw at us, until the one time at the end.
It’s just not quite going for us at the moment and I’m less concerned about this game, but we do need to be a bit better.”