S25/26 | The Official Match Thread | Portsmouth 1 Swansea 2 | Att: 18,508 (536 Jacks) | 10.03.26 | The EFL Championship | Fratton Park

[eteb]

Stoke losing after 2-0 up

 

[Smurph]

I agree with him to be honest

A win is a win and we haven't had many on the road this season.

Just enjoy the three points

 

[TruckerJack]

Away wins are hard fought in this league no matter who they are against. We showed a different side to us tonight and ground out that win when it would have been easy to fold.

 

[Smurph]

Brilliant first half.

Horrible second half but clung on and some players got a rest.

Play like we did second half Friday though and Wrexham will batter us.

Or we play like we did in the first half and beat them.

 

[monmouth]

Yes that’s fair. I don’t think anyone thought we would lose our shape as much as we did, it’s not like Galbraith has been the midfield anchor for the last few months. We’ve got enough cover to manage things, we just didn’t manage it very well for periods of the second half. On a positive note, some legs are rested.

Got to remember our away form too. That will have played on their minds. Desperate to win, sometimes you just defend too much and too deep for too long. The subs never got into the game, but it was just whanging the ball forward so not really surprised. Hoping for a more relaxed showing on Friday. Ward always fills me with zero confidence when he comes on, but he wasn’t the most ineffective of the subs by any means. That would have been painful for Matos to swallow if we hadn’t won.

 

[Smurph]

Been crap away from all season and we win a game and some aren't happy.

We should change the name of the stadium to the bedwetters.com

 

[jacabertawe]

And well done to our women. Six nil away to Cwmbran and some nice play.

 

[eteb]

A win is a win and we haven't had many on the road this season.

Just enjoy the three points

I am mate, but the last 30 was horrendous unnecessarily

 

[CurtessECarr]

Great win. Yes 2nd half was pants but we've not had two good halves in any match this season that I can recall.
But let's just enjoy the win.

 

[Copamundial]

Ronald gets a bad press but under the way Matos wants the team to play he’s probably the first name on the team sheet, lacks quality in the final third but his work rate is second to none…make a great right back in my opinion.

 

[Muteswan]

Is that our first doube of the season?

 

[Smurph]

I am mate, but the last 30 was horrendous unnecessarily

We showed grit and determination to hang in there in the second half, earlier in the season this lot would have folded like we did away to West Brom.

 

[J_B]

Is that our first doube of the season?

Wednesday, Oxford.

 

[Muteswan]

Wednesday, Oxford.

oops

 

[eteb]

We showed grit and determination to hang in there in the second half, earlier in the season this lot would have folded like we did away to West Brom.

Don't disagree with that