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It feels easy to describe that defeat as “one game too far” for Portsmouth. In some ways it was, but in others it was a match that got away.
Pompey were dominant for much of the second half but struggled to carve Wrexham open. They paid for a very poor second quarter and once again failing to defend a near post corner.
Losing John Swift to a hamstring injury is
When writing on Wednesday morning, I described Pompey’s mammoth result at The Valley as our biggest away win of the season. Four days later and four miles across London, we had an even bigger result at The Den.
The power, physicality and combativeness from our January additions, coupled with a noticeable uptick in both performances and results is no coincidence at all.
Pompey have now already won more away games
Derby responded well to going behind early on and were the better side throughout the first period, with Pompey forced to show resilience.
Ben Brereton Diaz spurned a promising opening for Derby after 31 minutes when he had the chance to lay it off to a clean through Bobby Clark, but the Southampton loanee took a heavy touch and allowed Schmid to claim.
After levelling just before the interval, John
Both sides went into the game at Fratton Park in dire need of three points, with Pompey having won just once in their previous 10, and Blackburn having drawn three on the bounce to continue to languish just above the bottom three.
The visitors were boosted by a first start in two months for skipper Todd Cantwell following injury, but both sides lacked invention and chance creation in a lacklustre
Saturday’s 1-0 defeat to Bristol City was a fifth in 10 league games at Fratton Park and Mousinho said: “The biggest disappointment is we shot ourselves in the foot with that disastrous opening 25 minutes, it isn’t good enough, it’s something we need to try and change.”
Pompey fans let their feelings be known at points in the first half and at both the half-time and full-time whistle, and Mousinho
The first real opportunity of the game fell to Portsmouth in a the swirling wind and rain at Fratton Park.
Josh Murphy whipped in a cross from the right and the ball bounced up for Regan Poole who attempted a shot on goal but the defender sliced his effort, which was eventually cleared.
Pompey then started to build wave after wave of attack, forcing Millwall deeper into their own half,
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In the 16th minute Pompey took the lead through Devlin thanks to a big deflection.
Conor Chaplin whipped in a cross from the left which was cleared only as far as the Blues defender, who struck the ball with his right foot which was diverted off a Hull player and it flew into the top corner.
Just before the half hour mark the Tigers equalised, though, when Coyle dashed down
Only Josef Bursik, Regan Poole, Bowat and Andre Dozzell retained their places in the Portsmouth starting line-up as John Mousinho made seven changes from his side’s 4-0 loss to Birmingham City.
Wrexham were unchanged from their 3-2 triumph over league leaders Coventry City – although it was the hosts who had the better start.
After Murphy fired at Arthur Okonkwo from a narrow angle, the winger blazed well over from
Birmingham City emphatically bounced back to winning ways at St Andrew’s with a dominant Championship victory over Portsmouth.
Paik Seung-Ho opened the scoring within the first 10 minutes before Tomoki Iwata, captain Chrisoph Klarer and substitute Keshi Anderson struck after the break to seal a comfortable victory.
Blues had not won at home since 20 September but produced a ruthless display from set-pieces against a fragile Pompey defence.
The result