Marosi, 8 - made some crucial saves, but a couple of dodgy-ish moments kicking and a save that looked to have spun out of his control.
Rose, 8 - Contained Curtis really well alongside Dabo, headed everything away, mich better following Saturday’s game
McFadzean, 9 - Great leader for us. Dominated Marquis and dealt with the aerial bombardment
Hyam, 9 - Contained Williams, dealt with everything aerially and has developed fantastically as a defender with us. Defensively sound
Dabo, 8 - defended brilliantly, great initiative to set up O’Hare for the assist
Kelly, 7 - influential player, and key to our success. Organised the midfield and puts in valuable defensive work
Walsh, 8 - classy midfielder, and tough enough to make physical challenges in midfield and showed a good range of passing and dribbling too
McCallum, 7 - not a lot going forward, but did well defensively and coped well aerially. Some harsh scores for McCallum
Allen, 7 - got forward well and is strong for his size, felt like he’d benefit attacking from slightly deeper in this kind of game
O’Hare, 8 - talented player! Nearly caught off-guard with Dabo’s quick throw, but is a constant dribbling threat and his passing paid off when he’s looped the ball over the defence for Gooden
Bakayoko, 7 - played really well against 2 big and physical CBs, credit to him. Didn’t get the chances to score unfortunately
Subs:
Biamou, 6 - Linked well with Gooden better than Baka, won some good flick ons too. Didn’t harass defenders as much as I expected
Gooden, 8 - got the goal and nearly had time for a second, movement was fantastic and gave Pompey all sorts of problems
Robins, 10 - we won the battle in the end, was positive enough to bring 2 strikers off the bench and it paid off. We shut out an attack who have scored in 24 games in a row and who had won 9-10 games on the bounce. A huge win!