POMPEY STUFF S'HAMPTON 1-1
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What were the emotional reactions to the Pompey vs Southampton match?
Pompey won, Southampton won. The final whistle went about 90 seconds ago. So one is still feeling a little bit emotional because these things are emotional. Of course they're emotional. This game is especially emotional and we won it one all. We've talked about it before on Pompey Sound. There's no such thing as a one all draw. You either win a one all draw or you lose a one all draw. And they lost a one all draw. because they had the lead and we came and got them. And so we won. So we feel better than they do. Obviously, let's hope there's no trouble on the way home for those fans from up the road, because that would not benefit our club, which is our priority. But putting that to one side, it was a good game.
If you were a neutral watching that, I hope that's put an elastoplast on the wound, really, of the game at St Mary's, which was just poor in so many ways. And a lot of journalists took the opportunity to say that sometimes these derbies are very disappointing because you're hoping for an explosion of footballing ability and passion... And it didn't happen at St Mary's. Well, it happened today at Fratton Park. Because it was a great game of football if you weren't... you know, furiously wishing one side or another to win, which completely overrides your powers of analysis of a game of football. If you are so impassioned that your side should win, you hardly notice the quality of the football. But the quality of the football was kind of interesting because we were here, there and everywhere.
We certainly shaded the first half and That was to do with footballing ability, not just the fact that we had the Fratton Park crowd, of course, giving it their all, as they do, as we do. And we were kicking towards the Fratton Park end. Sorry, the Fratton end. So the first half belonged to us. But we went in nil-nil. Now, there's going to be a bit of soul-searching and a bit of grief about the goal that Southampton scored. Because they didn't deserve it. What's the old phrase? It went against the run of play. They didn't work a good goal. They were gifted a good goal by some defensive errors. And various commentators have identified a Pompey player as having got it wrong, got the offside trap wrong. I don't know about you, I don't care.
I don't care. It was unfortunate. But the fact that we were able to rescue a point and a lot of dignity out of the game means that it happened. They scored. If we'd had our preferred centre-back partnership of Shaughnessy and Poole at the back, would that goal have gone in? Would they have done what they did? No. Almost certainly. But then you don't know. I doubt it. We were playing with a makeshift back four. In the middle, anyway. And that's not easy. Southampton played a different game of football to us. They played like a team who thought they were still in the Premier League. where they did very badly.
How did the game at Fratton Park differ from the previous match at St Mary's?
And they played with a certain multimillionaire elan, which will never go down at Fratton Park, even if we end up being multimillion. The idea of playing with that kind of, you know, like toff, like elitism, which they had. They would stand off us. There was a moment in the second half when Marlon Pack, who came on, isn't Marlon Pack, Marlon Pack. And he found himself with his back to goal about halfway inside the half that Pompey were defending. And the ball was running a little bit loose. And in the championship, normally, three opponents would be up his, I'm going to say, backside. But they weren't. He looked around him and there was nobody chasing him down. He had a chance to go and get the ball, turn around, look up and decide what to do with it.
Because that's the sort of thing that happens in the Premier League. It doesn't happen that much in the Championship. So they gifted us that. And you know what? Considering most of them think that they should be in the Premier League, Those Southampton players weren't very impressive. They weren't very good. Their defence was wobbly. We bossed their midfield easily. Their attacking force was stylish, but ineffective.
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