Portsmouth Vs Man City [R]

[Alan D]

Portsmouth v Man City preview

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It is make or break time for Portsmouth as they tackle Manchester City at Fratton Park with their Premiership status firmly on the line.

The South Coast outfit are already eight points adrift of West Brom with just ten Premiership games remaining to save their top-flight status.

Portsmouth's home form has been particularly disappointing with Harry Redknapp's side securing just two wins from their 13 league games at Fratton Park.

Man City are not the worst travellers by any means with three away Premiership successes this term and come into the contest with confidence high after beating doomed Sunderland.

Redknapp is set to keep the faith with mis-firing striker Benjani despite the Zimbabwean failing to find the back of the net following his big-money January move.

Andres D'Alessandro is back and available for Pompey after being ruled out of last weekend's clash with Aston Villa as his wife was due to give birth.

City boss Stuart Pearce is boosted by the return from suspension of Joey Barton after his red card against Liverpool ruled him out of last weekend's win over The Black Cats.

Micah Richards is expected to continue at right back despite the availability of Danny Mills who is still working on his fitness following a spell on the sidelines.

Andy Cole is making good progress on the knee cartilage injury sustained against Charlton but will take no part against Pompey.

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Very hard game for us - with the players we have we should win but I'm not too confident with it being away and Portsmouth are a team who do have a lot of decent players and they will go for the win because they need it. If we lose, then its another 3 points dropped and another game wasted when we should have won - but you never know!

[Alan D]

We lost - not surprisingly :mad: The sooner Vassell gets this hernia operation the better! He hasnt seemed to be playing well at all since he had the problem. Score was 2-1 to Portsmouth and another embarrasing result for us. Only positive I can think of is that we have a good team foundation to work on over the summer and hopefully we can get qualify for Europe next season because there is not any way we will make it based on our form over the whole season.

Looking at our remaining fixtures in the Premiership, we have Wigan, Chelsea, Middlesbrough, Tottenham, West Ham, Arsenal, Aston Villa, Fulham and Blackburn. Over the whole season and especially recently, we have won home games and lost away games and if it continues we will pick up about only four more wins in the Premiership which would give us around 52 points at the end of the season and it should mean we are roughly about 10th-ish. I only hope that Pearce is given the £20m in the summer to buy players

[chinesefootballfan]

Why did we lose?????????????? Whyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy???

It's Portsmouth......... and Portsmouth sucks

[Alan D]

They have to go out all guns blazing against Villa tomorrow if they want to progress to the Quarter-finals of the FA Cup.

[chinesefootballfan]

Even after winning the FA cup match vs Villa, I still can't get over the fact that we lost to Portsmouth, a for sure relegated team.

Can someone please explain to me how? why? what? who???????????????

[Alan D]

Its our away form :( We would be well into the UEFA Cup places if we even had the same away record this season! Although the team has definately made a step forward from last year, we have made two steps forward at home and a step back away! And Mendes did score two wonder goals...