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More reminiscent of Boruc IMO.

Lovely stuff. Great goal.

It's the result of him playing with Armstrong all season, knowing if he squares it Arma will miss. Might take him some time to reverse that habit.

Well he already plays as a false 10, given his propensity to go missing in games.

Bye bye Adam. Thanks for Wembley and good luck to you.

Probably the best team we can put out right now. Seems that we just couldn't play a back four without Bree, which makes the decision to loan him out even more baffling.

It wouldn't surprise me in the slightest if the decision to not play him has been taken without any input from Tonda whatsoever. He's just an SR puppet carrying out instructions like a good little boy.

In the interest of fairness, it's worth pointing out that this quote was actually in reference to his time at Midtjilland. But I don't think it's an unreasonable stretch to assume that the same philosophy applies to his interest in Saints.

Yes, very immature from many of our players. But Matsuki did well considering it was only his second league start for us.

We had a short spell before and after our goal where we showed our superior quality, but overall that was just another disorganised mess of a performance. I just want Tonda to fuck off now. He's got nothing about him whatsoever. Gifted them that draw with terrible in-game management and we were hanging on at the end, having long since given up any hope of creating anything ourselves. Really fucking poor. Again.

Why wait til the summer?

Desperately hanging on now. Embarrassing.

Did anyone honestly think we would actually keep a clean sheet today?

Good shift from Matsuki.

LEEEEEEOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!

I'd like to believe that it was a deliberate ploy to keep them fresh for the second half, knowing full well that Pompey would play with high intensity from the off and hopefully burn themselves out. We've ridden that storm. But we need to put in a much better second half performance than we have done so far all season.

Boro fans did warn us he tends to go missing in the big games. None bigger than this.

I really hate to say this, but Pompey are clearly the better team here. Tonda needs to change something. If we're gonna persist with hitting it long then FFS get Stewart on.

It's a poor performance overall. We're just panicking and launching long balls forward with no midfield control at all. But despite that, we have had the two best chances so far.

THB left that but it was much closer than he probably thought it was.

Very ill-disciplined there. 4 or 5 players clustered on our right side leaving acres of space for Pompey on the other side.

A classic example of Arma having too much time to think about it.

Matsuki needs to calm the fuck down.

Don't think he was ever part of the first team squad at City though. Went straight from U21s out on loan I believe.

I've heard this argument made many times over the years and it always irks me. What's to stop them getting a 'proper' job once their playing days are over?