Family outing to Fratton park on a sunny bank holiday what could possibly go wrong?
Battled through the BH traffic to get parked up by 1.45 which justified the earlier than necessary start (according to both sons) Wife's first away match (mainly to stop her feeling left out!).
A good and loud following of the green army and we were really up for it by kick off. Unfortunately the same cant be said for the players..... To be fair we had the better of the first half and carved out three decent chances and should probably have converted at least one. For some reason we were reluctant to shoot whilst at the other end we resorted to hoofball- perhaps this was due to the starting of Ansah instead of allessandra- whatever, it didn't work and numerous balls went no where near an Argyle player. Still, 0-0 at half time and i would have taken that before KO. Early minutes of the second half and the defense went missing resulting in a well taken goal against. Very few real chances for Argyle before Pompey were two up and it appeared that it was game over. But, an outstanding volley from Lee and the introduction of Allessandra allowed Argyle to absolutely batter Portsmouth for the last 10 mins-corner after corner and we really should have equalized from one, but the header went inches wide and Pompey saw the match out- but not before Curtis Nelson collected has second yellow on trotted off down the tunnel- he had a poor game by his standards but I suspect he picked up a knock in the first half.
Too many players had off days, T H-D and Bobby Reid were particularly poor and Jones was nowhere near where he was on friday. No one impressed and I struggle to pick a MOTM - maybe in the absence of anyone I would give it to Reuben Reid.
Hey ho, all is not lost, looks like 2 out of 5 for 6th and 7th and the goal difference is still worth a point. double home header coming up-probably need to win both.....
Battled through the BH traffic to get parked up by 1.45 which justified the earlier than necessary start (according to both sons) Wife's first away match (mainly to stop her feeling left out!).
A good and loud following of the green army and we were really up for it by kick off. Unfortunately the same cant be said for the players..... To be fair we had the better of the first half and carved out three decent chances and should probably have converted at least one. For some reason we were reluctant to shoot whilst at the other end we resorted to hoofball- perhaps this was due to the starting of Ansah instead of allessandra- whatever, it didn't work and numerous balls went no where near an Argyle player. Still, 0-0 at half time and i would have taken that before KO. Early minutes of the second half and the defense went missing resulting in a well taken goal against. Very few real chances for Argyle before Pompey were two up and it appeared that it was game over. But, an outstanding volley from Lee and the introduction of Allessandra allowed Argyle to absolutely batter Portsmouth for the last 10 mins-corner after corner and we really should have equalized from one, but the header went inches wide and Pompey saw the match out- but not before Curtis Nelson collected has second yellow on trotted off down the tunnel- he had a poor game by his standards but I suspect he picked up a knock in the first half.
Too many players had off days, T H-D and Bobby Reid were particularly poor and Jones was nowhere near where he was on friday. No one impressed and I struggle to pick a MOTM - maybe in the absence of anyone I would give it to Reuben Reid.
Hey ho, all is not lost, looks like 2 out of 5 for 6th and 7th and the goal difference is still worth a point. double home header coming up-probably need to win both.....
