We Need To Talk About Portsmouth.

#pompey #championship #leedsunited
In this video, Jack Ward breaks down all the action from the weekend in the Championship. Leeds United were defeated 1-0 by Burnley, as Portsmouth were pumped 3-0 at home to West Brom. Sunderland were shocked by Plymouth, losing 3-2. Sheffield Wednesday drew with QPR as Oxford and Derby won again. Sheffiled United won at Hull City.

00:00 Leeds 0-1 Burnley
04:46 Plymouth 3-2 Sunderland
08:07 What is going on at Portsmouth?

[TylerAven]

Not a Pompey fan, but 3 points is perfectly fine given how dreadful their matchups were to begin the year. The league said Welcome back to the Championship with a baptism by fire! After Sheffield United in their 7th game, they get 8 straight winnable matches, that’s when we will learn if Pompey is in trouble or not.

[Fournilwrittenalloverit]

I'd really rather we didn't talk too much about Portsmouth

[harrygardner]

so pompey fan here, somewhat agree with you, shock is injured atm, should be back next match as for me williams at CB just weakens the team, we are a matter of weeks away from the 11 being norris, farrell, poole/ mac, shock/towler, williams, pack/potts/kamara, murphy (who was fantastic yesterday), lang, blair and anyone up front who's fit, personally feel your being harsh on dozzell, has he been amazing, no, but done a good job and not put a foot to far wrong imo, personally think moose is doing all he can with what he has and then hes having to deal with these massive teams every week, just really unfortunate timing but give it a month when we face teams closer to our level and alot of our players back and i think we may start to cook

[harryhorse]

Pompey fan. Great video. Weve been unlucky with Bishop and now Yengi out. It was very difficult for Saydee yesterday

[jackhutchings]

We have the worst run of fixtures out of anyone in division easily, and we have still only lost 2 games! People are acting like we have lost all 5 games! We have managed to draw 3 out of 5 with a patched up team. Biggest issue is a st, saydee is good but we have trained him all last year to be deeper and now asking him to play as last man. Need to play a natural number 9 next game. Still believe we have enough quality to stay up when we get going!

[johnchristopherdennis]

Im amazed at your analysis concerning pompeys start to this season. All yhe points you made were very valid, especially the mysterious absence of Shaungnesy . He provides much needed experience and leadership in the back line. Our midfield needs more power and front players need to link up better.West Brom were class, fans too.

[seadoggozo-fishingguitarsa]

Good discussion about Pompey mate. It has been a tough baptism of fire for us against most of the pre season/current favourites.
I think our biggest problem has been going into these games with effectively a league 1 defence. I'm not criticising the guys who have been playing. They have played, I think, above last seasons level...but it's just not been good enough against our opponents so far.
That, and an initially weaker midfield, has just unsettled everything.
I do think it will be a different story to tell come the end of October.
PUP!

[HelstonTube]

Pompey fan here Jack and you're spot on

[philwisdom-qk]

What an accurate assessment of PFC start to the season, thank you. Like you, all we need is team stability, key players back in defence and upfront and things will improve. I have a lot of faith in the entire management team at Pompey, things will improve but we must all be patient. PUPPPU 💙

[bridgen]

Pompey fan here and I see things very differently. After 12 long years away from the Championship any fan that doesn’t think our target should be 21st (one place above relegation) is delusional. Looking back to last season Plymouth stayed up with 12 draws and 13 wins. Season before Cardiff did it by also winning 13 but only needing to draw 10. If we base our results on what Plymouth achieved last season we already have 3 of the 12 draws needed to stay up. I would much rather get the harder games out the way now than play them at the end of the season when we might be scrapping for points. Our last 7 matches are against Millwall, Coventry, Derby, Norwich, Watford, Sheffield Weds and Hull. All teams that you would expect to stay up but none that are either going to be in a relegation battle (fighting for their life) or steamrolling teams to the automatic promotion spots. So we just need to work on hitting those targets and building something for the following years.

[DavidEdwards-ok]

Its a 46 game season, not a 5. A number of factors have contributed to poor points return, brutal fixtures injuries and new faces, plus highlighted my Derby & Oxfords good start. Both these teams will have tough periods during the season, thats the nature of the beast. Fourth from bottom for any of the promoted sides equals a successful season. Small building blocks

[lorddarlo]

As a West Brom fan tbf Pompey gave us a Scare first half, Carlos settled us for the second they have had a tough start, they did also knacker themselves out but fully fit and maybe keep trying to play like that but maybe with a backup plan they might do well. Pompey could have easily been 3-1 up at Half Time. They need to keep with it and not drop off Second Half and make there Chances count. Albion gifted them chances, but they also gifted us so it could have been 3-1 but also 3-3 or 3-2 if Fellows and Maja burried theres or the keeper didn't save it. Either way first half I was nervous and Fair play to Pompey for that.

[JosephSmith-zjuk]

We will get there, I was a bit shocked to see Williams at CB and Dozzell in CM hopefully we will have a bit more of our lineup back against Burnley

[TheJamie]

Having the hardest start to a season any promoted team has had, potentially ever, hasn't helped. I doubt many of us Pompey fans expected us to have any points after the first few games.

As you say injuries haven't helped, and with all the signings, we're yet to find a settled first choice 11.

Shaughnessy ill and then picked up a calf injury. So glad to have Poole and McIntyre back. Just need to get a striker firing consistently now. Had WBA under the cosh for most of the first half, just couldn't put the ball in the net. If Lang scores the chance instead of it being deflected wide after nicking it off the defender with the high press, it coild have been adiferemt game.

Hopefully we'll see a back five of Norris, Farrell, Poole, Shaughnessy and Wiĺliams soon enough. Get Potts or Kamara in the middle with Pack, then Lang, Murphy, Silvera and Yengi as the front four.

[bornpompey]

1 - am i worried = no
2 - did our opening fixtures worry me = no
3 - did i expect a decent points return from the first 7 to 8 games = no
4 - is Saydee a no 9 = no ( he should be our impact sub to hold things up when we have tired players and need to see the game out)
5 - is Ogilvy good enough for the championship = no, (he has no pace and cannot recover against these fast pacey championship wingers and forwards, he is a good L1 player at best but we have Jacob Farrell to come back from injury
6 - is Paddy lane going to make it in the championship, honestly, i dont is not looking strong enough to me for this league but can do a job as a sub
7 - have I seen anything that encourages me = yes plenty but we must learn quickly from our mistakes and take our chances better, the championship takes no prisoners and you dont often get second chances but you do get punished!
So for me, a life long pompey fan turning 55 soon and has experienced all the leagues from bad to good back to bad and hopefully back to good, I only see us improving, the first fixtures were always going to be tough but we have shown we can play with the big boys and out of our first 5 games we have played two prem relegated teams and have another in 2 weeks and have played pretty much every one tipped to be contesting promotion either automatically or in the play offs by game 7 so with players returning from injury and the new signings finding their feet I would rather start slow out the blocks and come good than be sitting in a position that realistically teams wont hold on we learn and learn quick! PUP

[finnishyank]

I know as a Derby fan we were humbled on our opening day against Blackburn. They ran circles around us and when we switched off they punished us.

[AJTrain]

Agreed on Dozzell. Potts has to be starting with Pack. Hell I'd even have had Morrell back in a heartbeat.

[snacks]

Pompey, compared to Oxford, has had the most difficult start, but that was the luck or bad luck of the draw. I am sure Pompey hope to get six points of us this season or at least three when we go down there. For all three promoted side's, staying up is success. I don't care if Oxford are above or below Pompey and Derby, as long as we are still there at the end of the season.

[DavidSmith-cxdg]

You do seem to be right about Pompey at the moment, we need to find our best team before we get to the mid - table teams we need to take points off . Certainly the top teams have been different class so far at Fratton park where we are expected to attack them . Can't fault the effort, but we need our best players back .

[andrewpearson]

Jack. When I see pompey’s bench Sunday I’d thought the starting XI and the bench were the wrong way around so much quality warming the bench including Matt Richie who by the way I’d match fit