Portsmouth travel to Barnet on Sunday hoping to end an unwelcome run, having lost their last two league games including a 7-2 hammering at Charlton. Focus on Pompey please log in to view this image Portsmouth's trip to Charlton was not a happy one, being on the wrong end of a 7-2 hammering. Portsmouth started well but Charlton scored twice in the first 25 minutes to give Portsmouth a mountain to climb. Charley Wilson scored in the 44th minute to give Portsmouth hope, but this was quickly extinguished as Charlton scored once again before half time. Half time score 3-1. The next goal came from Portsmouth to bring the score back to 3-2 and once again there was hope. Unfortunately, an awful 20 minutes saw Charlton score four times without reply, being finished off by Gemma Bryan's hat trick goal in the 80th minute. Focus on Barnet please log in to view this image Barnet's origins begin in 1975 with the formation of District Line Ladies FC in 1993, District Line won the Greater London League to earn promotion to the National Division South. That year, they entered a partnership with Wembley FC and became Wembley F.C. Ladies. As Wembley, thy won the Premier League Cup in 1996, defeating Doncaster Belles and also reached the FA Cup final in 1997. Around 19898, they partnered with Barnet and became Barnet FC Ladies. Since then they have fallen to the South East Combination League but were promoted back to the Premier League Southern Division in 2006 and then to the National Division in 2010. Last Season Pompey League: Women's Premier League Southern Division Position: 1st Top Goal Scorer: Jemma Tewkesbury (18) Barnet League: Women's Premier League National Division Position: 4th Top Goal Scorer: Stacey Sowden (14) Last Match Charlton 7 - 2 Portsmouth @ Bayliss Avenue, home of Thamesmead Town F.C. Leeds 2 - 0 Barnet @ Throstle Nest, home of Farsley A.F.C. Last Meeting Women's Premier League Cup Semi-Final at Underhill Stadium, home of, er, Barnet F.C. 13/02/2011 Barnet 2 - 1 Portsmouth Portsmouth scorers: McGee Barnet scorers: Sowden, Trimnell The View of The Manager âIt looks like we received a pasting, but the game was a lot closer than the scoreline suggests. âThe difference is that Charlton took their chances, while we werenât clinical enough and didnât defend as well as we could have."
Well, Barnet are bottom with a goal difference of something like -11 after about 5 games. So basically, if we don't win this, we're screwed. Even though it's early days, I'd say this is pretty much a must win game. But realistically, I don't think we can aim for more than mid-table, I'd be happy with that I think. And hopefully a good FA Cup run, getting one of the London WSL teams away would be awesome (although we would get hammered)
I just realised you can view the table here http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/tables. Just scroll down to the bottom of the list, select and click update.
Indeed. Good thing about being in the National Division is that the BBC include our results and table now. Though another good source I use a lot is this: http://fulltime.thefa.com/Index.do?league=872938 Has loads of stats and is where a lot of the info in the previews come from.....
Barnet scored in the 89th minute to deny Portsmouth a win. Not a great result really as this only Barnet's second point of the season and with recent results, it raises doubts about our ability to stay up. Still, I guess it's early days and thankfully only two teams go down. Plus, at least it ends our losing streak. What does everyone else think?
Cardiff at home. A week on Sunday! I think I might try to go to it possibly. Then my match preview can contain photos (maybe!)
