OUR BIGGEST NICK IN DECADES
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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.
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. Five and a half hours from home, a 650-mile round trip, and it was worth every single second for that one moment. Our drive up to Teesside on Friday night was a nightmare of road closure after road closure, we didn't end up getting in until the early hours of Saturday morning. Then, watching us get battered for 90 minutes you just had that sinking feeling that one of Burroughs' chances would eventually go in and ruin the whole trip. But the goal never came, thanks to a couple of game-changing saves from Nicolas Schmid and a goal-line block from Andre Dizel, our defence just wouldn't be breached.
And Madiode Odia, thrown right in at the deep end was absolutely immense. Then, after defending for our lives since kick-off, we get a corner in the 97th minute.
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