Chapter 1: What recent news updates are shared about Pompey?
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I think it's obviously a huge, huge win for us. A different type of performance to what we've seen over the past few weeks where we've come away a couple of times, maybe not quite as dramatically as that, but we've come away a couple of times. If you look at the Sheffield United game and the whole game at home where we dominate the game,
We ended up conceding a late goal against Sheffield United, a late goal against Hull. We think we've done more than enough to win the game. Today, the boot was on the opposite foot. We had to play in a very, very different way, but at this stage of the season, the result is genuinely all that matters, and we managed to pick it up today.
Chapter 2: How did Pompey's performance differ in the latest match?
It is, and it's easy to say in hindsight. The only thing is when there's always that give and take. If you go in press teams and you're really aggressive, like we probably want to be for the most part, you do leave yourself potentially open at the back.
And when you sit off and sides have a lot of possession, it can be the same really, because it's really hard to defend against sides that are as good as Middlesbrough. So even when we sat off and we were solid, when they want to play inside your shape and try and and move it around with clever one-twos in the final third.
As we saw there from a couple of the chance they had, it's still very, very difficult to defend against, but we thought that was the right thing to do today.
I thought we got the mix for the most part right and when we did get pressure on the ball in the second half in particular, I think we just got unlucky with a couple of ricochets and the ball going the other way and all of a sudden they're so quick, athletic and good at football that you end up defending.
Yeah, ultimately we looked at that and thought if we can stay in the game we'd have opportunities and we did late on. Not just the goal but we had really good opportunities to break and we just didn't quite have that quality.
When we won the corner I thought well if we just make this the last thing that we do in the game then the worst that's going to happen here is that we end up drawing 0-0 which would have been a very very good point here. We obviously managed to score a set play, which has been something that we've been very, very close to doing.
But we put in a huge amount of work on the training pitch, on making sure that in those moments we try and get it right. It wasn't necessarily one we worked on, but I'm thinking we'll take the point minimum and then when the ball goes in the back of the net, just praying for the final whistle.
I think it was cleared to the edge of the box, Seggs had the volley and I think then it's either hit Chappers or he's expertly placed it in the corner. I just saw the ball go in the back of the net and the lads wheel away in celebration, so a great moment. A Pompey fans view from the away end.
Saturday was Pompey's best away win all season, and it could prove to be absolutely massive in our fight to stay up. There's just something special about a local lad, an academy product in his second spell at the club, scoring a winner that huge. You couldn't write it. The scenes in the away end were out of this world.
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Chapter 3: What strategies did Pompey employ against Middlesbrough?
It's always Pompey on the receiving end of a late sickener away from home. That little slice of luck always seems to go against us. On Saturday, for once, it was on our side. Well said, young Pompey fan. The thing is, there's no time to enjoy it properly. If we get stuffed, then you feel sick until Tuesday. But we've got a game on Tuesday.
We wrung so much elation out of that 97th minute goal against Middlesbrough that probably there's not a lot left. that incredible euphoria that we felt, all of us felt. And watching the pictures, watching it back, you know, nobody more so than Chaplin himself. He was showing off his shirt. Of course, he was saying, I'm proud of Pompey. I am Pompey.
But he was also saying it went in of my abdomen. I've scored my first abdominal goal. But he was over the moon and they all were. I know they do it for money and lots of it, but there's something else deep down.
It's the same as all of us when we play for the school or play in the playground, play in the playground and nick a winner 3-2 just as the whistle's going to go back in and do science or maths. Yes, come on, that feeling. And they had that. They could have been a pub side the way they were celebrating it.
And sometimes this season they haven't played a lot better than a pub side, but we'll move swiftly on because we've got a game coming up on Tuesday. And so are we getting nervous? Are we getting nervous? Saturday is probably the day of days, the day of reckoning, isn't it? 12.30, kick-off against Leicester.
And at some point we will find ourselves standing in the street at three o'clock in the afternoon. We will now know the result, the outcome of us versus Leicester. We will probably almost know our fate. Almost. And it'll just feel all wrong. We're meant to feel that the game has just ended at tea time. But let's put that to one side. The main thing is this.
Bring on Ipswich and then bring on Leicester. Oh yeah, and we got three points at Middlesbrough.
I think Chapa's performance on Saturday sums up where he's at. Defensively he was superb, led the press really well, was very very tenacious in everything he did, we've been making sure we focus on in possession as well just having a bit more of that quality we know he's got.
It has been very different for him, he's been playing in an extremely dominant Ipswich side at the level and we've asked him to do different things. But we know he's got that, we have seen it against a lot of sides this season, particularly against West Brom and thought he might kick on after that. Connor deserves that against Middlesbrough for his work rate and sticking at it.
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Chapter 4: What were the key moments leading to the last-minute goal?
And we'll take it. We'll take it because we're desperate. We would have been in proper relegation mire if it hadn't been for that fluky goal at the very last minute. We've got to remember it was Mili Alli who didn't really cover himself in glory when he came on and the last game when he came on. But he did win a corner. He managed to get that corner.
I think he may have been playing for the corner, knowing that that would be enough to wind the clock right down and we would go in for a shower with... with a precious point and John Massino again after the game said that they'd have very happily settled for a precious point and nil-nil you could argue we deserved that because we were doggedly defending but to nick it in the way that we did.
When, as lots of people have been saying, it normally happens the other way round. Whoever we're playing, they tend to do that to us or have done on several occasions this season. But now we've gone and done it to them, the others, the other lot. And we feel disproportionately pleased about it, don't we?
I mean, did not Saturday evening just go by in a happy, blurry haze of we went to Middlesbrough and got three points for all of us? Of course. Well, it must have been like for the faithful with that five and a half hour journey home. Oh, it was great.
cramped in that car or in that van or on that coach or whatever it was fantastic absolutely fantastic i can hear it now let's stop at the first off license they don't do off licenses anymore they do we're in the northeast you can get you can get a six-pack in any shop hardware shop news agents you name it pull in And celebrate. They did. And on the coach as well.
Obviously, there would have been plenty of good spirits, high spirits on the way back. And yet, we turn ourselves around and... Bring on another side that ought to be challenging for Premier League status this season. And who knows? There's plenty of games to go. So we've got Ipswich, we've got Leicester. And everything is crossed. Fingers, toes, whatever you can cross, please cross it.
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