POMPEY 0 HULL 1
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What were the highlights of the Pompey vs Hull match?
Pompey 0, Hull 1. Following Pompey the last couple of weeks has been like, I imagine a bungee jump must be. Where you go down and then you boing and you go up again and then you go down again and you go up. Not quite as much as the first time you went up and then you go down again. And it's been like that. Two absolutely fantastic 3-1 victories on the road against solid sides. And Sheffield United and Hull had a lot in common.
How did Pompey's recent performances affect the team's morale?
I don't think we were that much a better team than Hull as we were a better team than Sheffield United, but we didn't deserve to lose it. A goal of straw would have been a perfectly fair result. The people around me were muttering the same thing when we went in for half-time, even Stephens, Honours even, you know, two pretty good sides. one of them's fighting to get promoted, the other one's fighting to get relegated. You explain that, because they were well-matched. OK, they were away from home, and we were at home, so we had that advantage, but the sides looked to me to be pretty well-matched. If anything, and I'm probably biased... And I don't apologise for that. We were marginally better than them.
We had more possession than them. I believe that's a statistic which has been published and now it's out there. We certainly had more passes inside their penalty area. An important statistic than they did.
What were the key statistics from the match against Hull?
Shots on target. I don't know because we had a few shots that the goalkeeper saved even though they were going wide. But we'll come back to that. I've made it back to the studio, but I'm very, very cold, as were all the 20,000 people watching and the 30 or 35 people who played in the game. We had a whole team of substitutes warming up right through the first half, not because they were about to come on, because they were cold. You know, just because the sun's out, the sun... Okay, what does Saturday's sun at Fratton Park, for the whole of the whole game, what does Saturday's sun have in common with Pompey's shooting? Impotent. Harsh word. A lot of men don't like the sound of that word. But the sun was impotent.
It had no potency. It represented no threat to us. So those of us who saw the sun this morning... early because it was a 12 30 kickoff come back to that thought to ourselves i think it's just three layers you know i do i think it's going to be it's a it's a t-shirt a sweatshirt and a coat it was four layers i had four layers on because i'm not as stupid as i used to be but i was still frozen i didn't bring gloves a scarf and a hat i wish i had but i got so cold i that when I finally got home two hours after the final whistle, I had to put on clothes that weren't cold because my clothes were still cold. I don't know how the players managed it, especially players who were born and brought up in a totally different climate two hours.
I mean, take... you know poor old Gus Caballero got quite badly crocked they were tasty those two fullbacks that Hull had but Caballero what does he think playing in a temperature like that I don't know whether you get temperatures like that during the football season in Paraguay or in Brazil but um oh you know short-sleeved shirts and the subs were all warming up wearing thermal tights but of course you can wear thermal tights playing a game of football but it's not a good look So the sun and Pompey's attacking efforts, their final shot just lacked any meat. Now our buildups, I hope you agree. I don't think I need to go on too much about it. Our buildups often were very good, sharp, sometimes fast, sometimes quite intricate.
I didn't know that Adams would have a neat back heel, but he did one right in front of me and it worked. It came off. It was a nice little triangle move. We did a lot of good triangle moves in wide areas and they pretty much 99% came off, which is good. And we were good across the park. Everybody had a pretty good game. Everybody around me was nodding approvingly whenever Connor Ogilvie was anywhere near the ball. Regan Poole was inch perfect. Our full-backs had a great game, both defending and going forward.
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