We are staying up!
Der blev lagt ti minutter til kampen og trods det at Watford havde en spiller udvist, så var det noget nervøst, men sejren kom i hus og dermed var det sikkert at Pompey har sikret sig endnu en sæson i The Championship.
Fra start var der ingen tvivl om hvem der ville det mest, og sejren var ganske fortjent selvom gæsterne havde noget af en afslutning fra distancen! Men Watfords norske keeper, plankeværket fra Haugesund, stod fremragende, lige bortset fra ved målet!
Dagens billede fortæller noget om sammenholdet, begge har fået begrænset spilletid men bemærk deres glæde!
Officiel kamprapport
Championship, Fratton Park, 21.april 2025
Portsmouth – Watford 1-0 (1-0)
25 min 1-0 Colby Bishop
Pompey (4-2-3-1): Schmid; Williams (Devlin 52), Poole (Shaughnessy 87), Atkinson, Ogilvie; Potts, Hayden; Ritchie (c), Aouchiche (Saydee 46), Murphy (Lang 87); Bishop (Yengi 76)
Gule: Bishop, Aouchiche, Potts, Lang
Bænken: Archer, Bramall, Pack, Dozzell, Devling, Shaughnessy, Saydee, Lang, Yengi
Tilskuere: 20,451 (2,193 away fans)
Portsmouth manager John Mousinho:
“It probably hasn’t quite sunk in yet – if you’d have asked me on Sunday then I would have said that it was incredible.
“But if you had asked me back in October then I would have been amazed at what on earth had happened!
“The feat is all the more impressive because of what we’ve had to deal with and some of the runs we’ve gone on.
“I don’t want to downplay how big an achievement it is, but it is the next building block of where we need to go as a football club.
“When we went up last season I said the most important thing is that this time next year we’re still a Championship club – and now we need to try to improve again.”
“We knew that there was going to be a lot because of how many people were going down injured or with cramp in the second half.
“But I felt more comfortable at that point than I had during the previous 40 minutes because after playing so well before the break, we couldn’t put the game to bed.
“We made some poor decisions, although Watford played with a bit of freedom once they were down to 10 men and had Louza in their team, who’s excellent.
“The nerves the boys had because of the importance of the game certainly showed during the second half.
“We had some excellent chances to wrap things up, but overall I believe that it’s a victory we definitely earned.”