Swansea 2 (Ogilvie 45’+2 o.g., Cullen 53’) - Portsmouth 2 (Ritchie 25’, Murphy 45’)
Portsmouth surprised us today with their high press, their tenacity and their energy. We won nothing in the air all afternoon but kept on pumping those balls into the box. Pompey weren’t rusty at all after their three week lay off.
Our defending was abysmal and while we were also mostly blunt up front our full backs couldn’t handle their wingers, Key especially.
How was this team bottom of the table with only two wins I asked. We clawed our way back into the game and should have won in the end, with our many chances but a combination of poor shooting and bad luck prevailed.
I didn’t like the over fussy ref, who stopped the game ever time a Portsmouth player faked injury to slow the game down or the linesmen who only looked for off sides and didn’t keep up with play or the goalkeeper taking an age each time to kick the ball out, this was blatantly ignored by the ref.
A performance best forgotten and to move on.