On Tuesday night we were warmed up on a bitterly cold night by a tremendous footballing display as were tore Sheffield Wednesday to pieces to earn a game at Goodison. Right from the off we were a class apart, and won in style, scoring great goals on the way.
Unfortunately we didn’t manage to take that into the home game with Portsmouth, with most of the blame for that lying with the state of the pitch, which cut up badly right from the off. The conditions meant that we were unable to play the smooth passing game that had proved so successful on Tuesday as the wide players were unable to get into their stride on the bobbly surface. In addition, Portsmouth came to disrupt the game from the off, managed to nick a goal against the run of play and were only pegged back through a wonderful free kick from Crainey.
It was exactly the type of game that we would have lost in previous seasons, but we stuck to the task and rescued a point, keeping us right in there in the promotion shake-up.
There is now an important game with Doncaster away on Tuesday before the cup-tie with Everton. It will be interesting to see just how seriously the latter is being taken as we follow that up with a match with West Ham, a game that could prove crucial if we are to have any aspirations of automatic promotion.
Interesting times to be a Pool fan.
STARMAN (Sheffield Wednesday) – Ludo Sylvestre
STARMAN (Portsmouth) – Barry Ferguson
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