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Chapter 1: What recent updates are there on Ebu Adams' injury status?
The latest Pompey news updates every day from the Pompey Sound News Desk. John Massino's had a welcome boost to his attacking options for Friday against Norwich.
Massino said, Keshie's available for Friday. Whenever Keshie's available for us, he's looked really sharp. Not having that option has been part of the problem over the past few weeks. Seggs has done a brilliant job when he's been out there but I don't really see him as an out-and-out winger we've had that heavy reliance on Millie to do that job off the left.
Sometimes he's been brilliant, but sometimes when we've not been able to change him out and give him a rest that's perhaps taken its toll on him. So, just having that option, like we did in that run of games when Keshi came in, will be useful. Keshi played against Southampton, he played against West Brom, and was due for a start against Ipswich before that got postponed.
He then unfortunately picked up his injury. So I think you can see the strength of the squad and the options we had over those games was a lot different. With the output we're asking for from the wingers we'd like to change them over. It depends what kind of day the wingers having but definitely having that option is useful.
I suspect a lot of onlookers would say that when John Massino talks about options, he's also talking about competition for places. Because one of the things that works in football, and we all know it, that works in football really well, is when there are two or more players vying for the starting shirt.
and having three or four or five wide players battling it out to get the starting seven or eleven shirts means that everybody's game is going to be as sharp as it possibly can be but when you're reduced to one and a half wide players, wide attacking players. It's not that complacency creeps in.
It's just that you don't have the option of looking at the way in which a fullback during the game is either managing to contain a Pompey attacker or failing to contain a Pompey attacker and then making adjustments on the pitch using your substitutions appropriately. So John Messina is now getting his options and he's also getting competition rewards.
for players who spend the game with their heels on the touchline. John Massinio admits there's no guarantee Ebu Adams will play for Pompey again this season, though the Blues boss is still holding out hope that the influential midfielder could return for the Leicester game on April 18.
The popular January signing damaged his MCL late in the crushing 6-1 defeat at QPR, and was visibly distraught after the final whistle. According to Massinio, that emotional reaction had the club fearing the worst, as they scrapped for their Championship lives.
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Chapter 2: How is John Massino addressing squad options for the upcoming Norwich game?
And he really is heading towards, you know, being, shall we have a statue now? Not a statue, obviously, next to Jimmy Dick. But, you know, perhaps if he goes on like this, he'll have a place on some wall of fame, won't he, Eboy Adams? How he's worked his way into our affections has been surprising, hugely surprising, and a real bonus.
And, of course, he's such a bonus that when we miss him, we really miss him. So it remains to be seen what the midfield looks like against Norwich and in the upcoming games thereafter. It seems as though John Messina is hoping that he might be fit for Leicester, which of course will be at least as crucial a clash as the Oxford one. And by the way, the...
Norwich game is being billed as crucial but Steve Bone amongst others who have given this a lot of thought says the Norwich game is not that important it's the Oxford game and the Leicester game those are the ones that if we can get six points from those two well happy days as ever the football news agency the 72 have asked their top football writers to predict the outcome of Friday's game against Norwich
Will Evans-Jones, Norwich City will be looking to show they can still make a run for the play-off positions having turned their season around under Philippe Clement. The Belgian transformed NCFC, turning them into an electric attacking side. With five wins out of their last six league games, they should be confident of making it six in the last seven against Portsmouth.
John Massigno's Pompey have to pick up points over the busy Easter period, after their heavy defeat last time out, and as relegation threat grows. With pressure increasing and the hosts in fantastic form, I'm going for a comfortable home win. Prediction, Norwich City 3-1. James Ray, this is only going one way in my opinion.
It feels like Norwich City and Portsmouth are going in completely different directions, with NCFC not yet giving up on the top six while Pompey's fears of relegation grow. The Canaries have nothing to fear. They're playing with the freedom that comes from a lack of pressure while Pompey are really feeling it at the moment. Messina and co have had plenty of time to put that QPR game behind them.
It was a freakish display of clinical finishing from the Ars and Portsmouth just have to forget it and move on. The best way to do so will be by getting a result here. Unfortunately, I do not see such an outcome, I think Norwich City will win routinely again as relegation fears deepen for Pompey. Prediction Norwich City 2-0
The thing is, it's a mugs game, isn't it? Offering predictions to matches, football matches, league football matches, in leagues where anybody can beat anybody. The results often go according to the form book, but equally, they all too often go against the form book.
And one of the things that always surprises us, talking amongst ourselves at Pompey Sound, is that almost everybody who offers a prediction offers a predictable prediction. you can more easily predict the prediction that they're going to make than they can predict the outcome of the game.
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