I wasn’t at the game admittedly; I was only listening in midweek, but that all too familiar feeling of ‘frustration’ is what I got once again from another home game!
This wasn’t a feeling I was alone with either, most others felt it with it clearly obvious from my cousin when he called me on his way home from the game – it almost leaves you ‘speechless’ in a way as you don’t really know what to say, as you seem to say it every home game now…
All that being said, to see Pompey sat a couple of points off the top, which we were heading for until the injury-time equaliser from Stevenage, and in 2nd after some 14-matches isn’t to be scoffed at is it!
Maintain this points return and we’ll go up.
But IF we can sort out the home form, with the away form that has been awesome maintained, we could literally ‘walk this league’ which isn’t something anyone would have expected, or still would but we would certainly like that!
What did Paul Cook make of it?
He told portsmouthfc.co.uk:
‘That’s football and you just have to get on with it. We’ve played 14 games and lost one, so we’ll just keep going.
‘It’s a long season and there will always be inconsistent results around you, but you’re only ever interested in your own one.
‘Unfortunately we were unable to hold our lead on this occasion and that’s the disappointing thing.’
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Cook also said there’s a lot of ‘huffing and puffing’ at the moment, like Tuesday, but we ‘don’t quite look like we’re going to get on top of someone,’ which is a fair assessment I’d say wouldn’t you?
As much as he didn’t think we ‘were robbed’ he expected us to see out injury-time and get that much needed home win:
‘It would be remiss of me say that we were great and were robbed, but I thought we’d see the game out.
‘Stevenage caused us a few problems in the early stages of both halves, but then got deeper and deeper.
‘There’s no magic formula – we’re a few seconds away from being top of the league and everyone one going home cock-a-hoop.’
He now has to pick the team up as that goal ‘took the life out of everyone’ with the DVDs studied as we prepare for Mansfield on Saturday but he said he, and his side, will ‘take any criticism on the chin and look forward’ to it.
PLAY UP POMPEY!
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