Særdeles vigtig sejr efter stærk indsats
Det kunne have gået meget anderledes hvis Charlton havde scoret på den meget store chance de havde i kampens første minut. Det skete ikke og så overtog Pompey taktstokken. Det er interessant at Charltons managers interviews efter kampen, hvor hans pointe var meget klar, vi mødte et hold der ville det mere end os og vi blev slået fysisk. To af deres tre mål er situationer vi skal sikre ikke sker og det er sjældent med mål fra distancen!
Vi holdt fast i de gode takter fra de to foregående kampe og utroligt at to nye spillere åbenbart var det som der skulle til i form af Adams og Alli, faktisk utroligt at Alli ikke kunne bruges af Luton som er i rækken under os.
Med sejren skaber vi luft til bunden, men det ligner at det er Leicester (fratrukket 6 point). WBA, Blackburn og Pompey der skal kæmpe hårdt for at undgå nedrykning!
| 16 | Swansea City | 32 | 12 | 6 | 14 | 38 | 39 | −1 | 42 |
| 17 | Norwich City | 32 | 11 | 6 | 15 | 42 | 42 | 0 | 39 |
| 18 | Charlton Athletic | 32 | 10 | 9 | 13 | 31 | 41 | −10 | 39 |
| 19 | Portsmouth | 31 | 9 | 9 | 13 | 30 | 40 | −10 | 36 |
| 20 | Blackburn Rovers | 32 | 9 | 8 | 15 | 30 | 41 | −11 | 35 |
| 21 | West Bromwich Albion | 32 | 9 | 7 | 16 | 32 | 47 | −15 | 34 |
| 22 | Leicester City | 32 | 10 | 8 | 14 | 44 | 51 | −7 | 32 |
| 23 | Oxford United | 32 | 6 | 10 | 16 | 28 | 44 | −16 | 28 |
| 24 | Sheffield Wednesday | 32 | 1 | 8 | 23 | 19 | 64 | −45 | −7 |
Championship, The Valley, 17.februar 2026
Charlton – Portsmouth 1-3 (0-2)
22 min 0-1 Terry Devlin
25 min 0-2 Colby Bishop (pen)
56 min 0-3 Terry Devlin
64 min 1-3 Fevrier
Pompey (4-2-3-1): Schmid; Devlin, Poole, Ogilvie, Swanson (Williams 63); Pack (c), Adams; Caballero (Brown 63), Swift (Bowat 79), Alli; Bishop
Gule kort: Pack, Adams
Bænken: Bursik, Dia, Le Roux, Segečić, Kirk, Singerr, Williams, Brown, Bowat
Tilskuere: 18,713 (2,504 Pompey fans)
Portsmouth manager John Mousinho:
“I’m delighted with the result and we were able to match it with a really strong performance.
“Nico saved us in the very first minute, but it’s easy to forget that when you come away with an important away victory.
“That sharpened us up a bit and for the following 55 minutes we were absolutely excellent and deserved our lead.
“It went a bit crazy after we scored our third goal and we made a few strange decisions, giving Charlton a route back into the game.
“But it was pleasing that we saw the game out in difficult circumstances against a physical side who are a real threat from set-pieces.
“Terry’s overall performance, even if you take the brace away, was so impressive and you can’t say that he’s playing out of position now because he’s turned himself into a proper Championship right-back.
“I know that he’s not going to stop and the more goals that he can add to his game, then the better for him and us.
“Things have really tightened up at the bottom of the table and we’ve been a bit unlucky in recent weeks, so that was a great result with two more tough away games coming up.”
Charlton manager Nathan Jones
«The majority of the game we were dominated physically,» he said.
«The first goal is a really poor one to concede, no one closed him [Terry Devlin] down and then it went straight through our goalkeeper, and that can’t happen.
«The penalty is subjective. We had better chances, we had clear-cut chances, but the all round performance tonight was really poor.
«Today was not the messages we give. It’s 11v11 out there and they wanted it more than us and that is unacceptable.
«If you don’t do the basics well then you can’t have a platform in the Championship.
«The first goal is a goalkeeping error, he has to save that. The second one we have to look at, but it was that kind of night.»
«I thought there was a lot going on in the game, everything first half was a booking. In my opinion, the referee got a hell of a lot wrong tonight and he contributed to that type of the game, but that didn’t impact the outcome.
«It is not just the goals we conceded, it is the level of the performance I am not happy with.
«As much as there was glimpses of quality, there was a massive part of it that isn’t us.
«It was a tough one to take, but we have to go again.»