Portsmouth vs Liverpool

A head to head match between two of the troubled teams of the Premier League’s will play in the first match of the weekend.  It is Liverpool taking a trip down to cellar dweller Portsmouth.  The Hampshire fell to Chelsea in midweek.  But it was a much better showing as Avram Grant watched his old charge Frank Lampard concludes the match with a second-half penalty. 
Yet Pompey remained steady with only 11 points to their name, so they should get something when Rafael Benitez’s Reds come to town.  The Anfield giants desperately need a win on Wednesday, triumphing 2-1 over Wigan Athletic in spite of failing to take full gain of their many goal-scoring chances.  But Liverpool is still a long shot from where they hope to be at this point of the season.  But still the Champions League qualification is a must for the 18-time English champions, and if they are to achieve that goal they should win against the cellar dwellers.

Manchester United Up by Three Points

Manchester United’s 2 nil victory over Portsmouth has given them the upper hand to wrest the Premier League Cup championship. They went ahead three points clear after Chelsea was held to a goal less draw by Everton at home.

 

Wayne Rooney drew first blood but it was Michael Carrick’s late game stab at goal sent the Red Devils past Liverpool, with still one game to go on their schedules. Over-all Manchester United has 74 points with six matches while Liverpool has 71 with only five matches in their card. Liverpool was held to a four all draw by Arsenal in their own semifinals duel. Chelsea sits at third with 68 points but only has five more matches to go.

Wayne Rooney teamed with strike partner Cristiano Ronaldo to control the match from opening kick off. Ryan Giggs perfect pass to Wayne Rooney nine minutes in to the match opened the scoring for the Old Trafford club. There were scoring chances for Portsmouth but Michael Carrick sealed the three points with a forward volley from able midfielder Paul Scholes.

Tony Adam Warned Portsmouth

Swansea outplayed and won the game over Portsmouth. warns the team this game would not be easy and they would have to work hard and play hard to win.
In spite of Adams warning the Portsmouth team did not put up the work and play a team as if they are should have played.
A lot has change for Portsmouth the last seven months. Redknapp went to Tottenham after walking out on the team; the team has lost the spirit of the game as it showed today.
By the end of the game, Adam could say nothing except what a poor game.

Swansea Works Over Portsmouth 2-0

FA Cup holders Portsmouth were destined to an disturbing fourth round depart as Championship club Swansea won 2-0 at Fratton Park on Saturday.
Portsmouth a victory with the Cardiff was a promising Portsmouth’s first FA Cup triumph since 1939. Tony Adam’s side did not display the playing of FA Cup this game.
The was out played, out witted by Swansea. In the first half winger Nathan Dyer, on-loan from Southampton struck in the first half.
With the play on the field at all times, the Swansea had no problem with keeping Portsmouth out of the running for the cup.
Tony Adam’s team Portsmouth was careless playing with being caught on the counter at half time. Adams had Kanu and Hermann Hreidarsson to help with the game to turn the game to their advantage.
In the last minutes Portsmouth tried to come back with the win with falling short with tip offs on the goals.

Pompeys fire their manager

Portsmouth manager, Tony Adams is axed following a loss to Liverpool on Saturday night.  He took charge of the club when Harry Redknapp left the club for Tottenham Hotspurs. Pompeys failed to win a single match in the last nine games and that’s what made the club fire him.

Saturday’s match against Reds could have helped the manager to retain his job had Benitez not brought on Torres and Kuyt from the bench. The Pompeys were playing really well and they were 2-1 up when Kuyt, Torres and Alonso were brought to rescue the club from the loss.

Although, Portsmouth was playing really well but only managed draws when they played good. They brought Peter Crouch from Liverpool at the start of the season who was playing really well for them and also scoring goals. Pompeys are now without a manager. The club is thankful to his services but they had to think when the club was just 1 point away from relegation zone.

Fulham 3 – 1 Portsmouth

Fulham came up with yet another fabulous performance has they managed to frustrate Portsmouth to another loss with 3 goals on Saturday evening.

The visitors were forced to make errors again and again by the cottagers. fulham moved up to ninth spot above Manchester city in the premier league table.  one goal from Johnson was not enough to inspire the pompeys to come back when nevland came up with two superb goals as they were 3-0 till 80 minutes. It was then Nugent who gained the visitors some respect with one goal to finish the game 3-1.

Although David James, the Pompey keeper did very with the gloves to kep the cottagers away from goal but it was nevland’s show that made james useless in the end. Nevland gained a well deserved man of the match at the end. Pompeys now moved to the 15th spot in the league table not good enough for them.  Also the pompeys were denied  a well deserved penalty that could have changed the result of the game.

Portsmouth 0-1 Aston Villa

Aston Villa beat Portsmouth thanks to a goal on debut from Emile Heskey to move into 3rd place in the Premier League.

Heskey scored after a flick-on from Gabriel Agbonlahor from Brad Freidel’s long clearance on 21 minutes to give Villa a fourth consecutive win. Portsmouth on the other hand, are winl-ess in 7, and have won only 2 out of 14 games under manager Tony Adams.

Villa came into the game in fine form, and although they were never truly in command, they did enough to see off Portsmouth, who were spurred on by a boisterous home crowd. The home side created a few chances, as new signings Jermain Pennant and Hayden Mullins combined well, but Peter Crouch was guilty of a glaring miss from inside the box and Pompey clearly missed the pace and finishing prowess of Jermain Defoe, who was sold off to Spurs last week.

In the second half, Portsouth suffered another setback when Nadir Belhadj was sent off after a second booking.Villa held on for another win, and the dream of Champions League football next season is looking more and more possible.

Tottenham 1-1 Portsmouth

Tottenham and Portsmouth played out an entertaining 1-1 draw at the White Hart Lane, in a BPL game on Sunday.

Spurs boss Harry Reddknapp and striker Jermain Defoe were up against their former team, while Tony Adams led Portsmouth against their ex-coach. Pompey took the lead through David Nugent on the hour mark, but Defoe equalized for the home side ten minutes later.

Darren Bent had a chance to win it for Spurs with ten minutes to go, but he missed an easy chance and it finished one-all. The point lifts Spurs out of the drop-zone on goal difference, while Portsmouth go 12th.

Pennant to Portsmouth

Pennant has been highly linked for a transfer move to Real Madrid and AC Milan but now the deal has been almost done with the Pompeys. Portsmouth purchased Peter Crouch at the start of the season and now they are buying Jermaine Pennant. The right winger has been on the sidelines for Liverpool for most of the season. He got few starts where he played really well. With the arrival of Keane, Kuyt had to take the role of right winger. With so many good players on the bench such as El Zhar, Benayoun and Babel, Pennant had no chance of getting a regular place in the side. The manager Benitez has confirmed that the player is leaving for Portsmouth but he has denied the transfer requests for the highly rated centre-back Daniel Agger. Pennant was transferred from Arsenal to Liverpool. Now he is heading to Portsmouth with a vast experience so he might just click for the Pompeys.

Inter Signs Muntari

The widely publicized move by Ghanaian midfielder Sulley Muntari from English Premiership club Portsmouth to Italy’s Inter Milan is now officially completed and the transfer fee is said to be somewhere in the range of €16m.

Inter Milan have been looking for a central midfielder all summer thought they had completed a deal with Chelsea’s Frank Lampard but recently all indications suggested that the player would not be leaving the club. Their interest quickly switched to Muntari and the deal is now officially complete. Muntari will be unveiled as an Inter player this morning and will now resume his Serie A career.

The 23-year-old played for Udinese between 2002 and 2007 before signing for Portsmouth last year and now after only a season at Portsmouth he is on the move again. Muntari becomes Inter Milan’s second signing of the summer following the acquisition of Roma’s winger Amantino Mancini.

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