Chapter 1: What recent signing has been described as 'massive' for Pompey?
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Gustavo Caballero, his debut at Fratton Park, left John Massino absolutely purring.
I really liked lots of what I saw there with Gus. He showed some real positivity considering it was his first start, chucking him into such a difficult, hostile atmosphere. To be fair to Gus, he's used to it. He's played in Paraguay, he's played in Brazil, where football is everything. So coming over here, he's slotted in really well.
Chapter 2: How did Gustavo Caballero perform in his debut at Fratton Park?
He showed some really bright sparks, and there's plenty more to come from him. He didn't play on Saturday. But we obviously trust him, we trust all of the players, it's just in certain moments we turn to certain players and off the back of last night Gus will get into it.
At Charlton he was a threat in terms of that outlet on the right-hand side, he worked really hard, kept himself going with the press. He hasn't played since the back end of January. He's played 45 minutes here and 45 minutes there for Santos, but he wasn't a regular starter, and he provided that threat for us going forward.
He set up the second goal, just being direct on crossing the ball, it's something on the right-hand side we haven't had, that directness. So I'm really happy with that.
It'll be interesting to see team selection on Saturday against Millwall because if Segecic is once again fully available and also he is very happy with Gustavo Caballero out wide, perhaps Segecic is going to be able to move inside a position that he himself has said he prefers, but he'll play right wing if that's where we need him to play. But he's got two choices there.
John Massino and that must provide him with a little crumb of comfort in these very hard times with injuries.
Pompey have confirmed that ever-present midfielder Andre Dizel will not be fit again in the short term. Dizel, who was injured in an apparently innocuous clash with Patrick Bamford in the Sheffield United game, initially wanted to carry on after treatment, but after limping for five minutes found himself unable to walk the injury off and so left the field.
There are reports that he went home wearing a surgical boot. John Messinio says the club are unable to provide further details about the nature of Dozell's injury but that investigations are ongoing. There's better news about the injury to Adrian Segacic who also came off during the same game having taken a knock.
Fears that he may have to miss upcoming games were scotched when it was announced that he was on the subs bench for the Charlton game, although in the event he wasn't called upon.
So good news about Segs but not so good news about Doz.
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Chapter 3: What are the latest updates on player injuries for Pompey?
Neither club requested a personal hearing and each of the cases were dealt with on correspondence only.
You wonder if Pompey colluded with that lot up the road and a conversation was had somehow saying, why don't we go in or why don't we submit singing from the same hymn sheet. Guilty as charged. Sorry about that.
Findings Having carefully reviewed all the evidence, the commission concluded that following a foul tackle from Flynn Downs of SFC on Zach Swanson of PFC, which would likely have been dealt with by the referee issuing a caution, both players reacted aggressively toward one another.
Subsequently a number of players practically every player on the pitch in fact from both sides ran toward the confrontation. A good deal of pushing shoving and restraining occurred at this time across two separate melees. The physical contact was relatively brief and no acts of violence took place during the confrontation.
The commission took the view that neither side was more culpable than the other when looking at matters in the round. The main aggravating factors were considered to be the proximity to the crowd and the number of players involved. Given the high profile and volatile nature of the fixture, events might easily have unfolded in an even more unsavoury manner had members of the crowd become involved.
This was considered to have been a realistic possibility.
Yeah, so this is the nitty-gritty of it, pushing, shoving and restraining. So it's by no means a street fight or World War III. And it was Pompey versus that lot up the road, a volatile derby. And the thing that doesn't get mentioned, and I think is relevant, is that the initial confrontation took place almost in the crowd.
I think Swanson was shoved such that a member of the public put his hand out to help him get back on the pitch.
As both teams accepted the charge, the Commission considered the appropriate sanction to impose. The Commission considered previous sanctions imposed on both teams with regard to recent relevant misconduct. There were three breaches by PFC in the previous five years. There were five previous breaches by SFC, two of which were within the last 12 months, two at youth level.
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