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Portsmouth

  • Kranjcar 82’

Wigan Athletic

  • Zaki 45’ (pen.)
  • Heskey 90’

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  1. Wigan stun Pompey at the death

    Wigan stun Pompey at the death

    Emile Heskey scored a stoppage time winner for Wigan as they ruined Tony Adams first home game in charge of Portsmouth with a 2-1 win. More

  • Live Commentary

    Time:90'
    • Portsmouth
    • Wigan Athletic
    • FT AND THERE IS THE FINAL WHISTLE - Heskey's late goal has done it - his 100th Premier League goal.
    • 90+1 HESKEY HAS WON IT FOR WIGAN - Cattermole slips in a little pass and the England striker is there to put it under James.
    • 90' At the other end Defoe fires a shot just over the bar - end to end stuff here.
    • 89' Ohhh the ball is played across to Valencia and he has a great chance but his first touch is too heavy and James can save.
    • 88' Zaki off and Camara comes on.
    • 86' Wigan break at pace and Valencia is put through on the right but James comes out and makes a key save.
    • 84' Defoe turns Bramble in the box and shoots just wide but his hand brushed against the ball in any event.
    • 82' POMPEY ARE LEVEL!!! The substitute Krjancar has got it - a fine low drive from just inside the box after a corner bounced out to him.
    • 77' GREAT SAVE KIRLAND - another corner won in the air by Crouch and Defoe looks like he is going to score from six yards out but the former England keeper gets down qucik to save.
    • 74' Valencia chips the ball into the net on a Wigan counter attack but the flag goes up. It looks like he might have been onside though.
    • 71' Palacios has just blazed a shot over on a rare Wigan attack.
    • 68' Johnson curls a shot well over the bar but Pompey are really in control now. Zaki is back on the pitch by the way and seems to be ok.
    • 65' OFF THE BAR TWICE FROM POMPEY - Distin from a corner first and then Crouch with another header off the bar - Portsmouth just cannot score.
    • 64' Crouch wins a header in the box and it Defoe just can't get on the end of it - so close.
    • 63' The one thing Wigan fans do NOT want to see. Amr Zaki has gone down injured after a crushing tackle from Johnson - he seems to have hurt his ankle.
    • 62' The ball falls nicely to Palacios on the edge of the area but he blasts it high over the bar.
    • 60' Tony Adams will be encouraged by the opening 15 minutes of this half as Pompey are getting well on top now.
    • 58' Zaki tries to turn onto a volley but the ball goes well wide. Ambitious.
    • 56' 11 men on the line for the free-kick - some of them including Kirkland storm out and he saves from Defoe before the ball is deflected wide by a man on the line.
    • 55' Referee Peter Walton has given an in-direct free kick just 10 yards out after Chris Kirkland picked up the ball when Koumas played the ball back to him. It looked like it was a tackle for Koumas though not a back pass.
    • 54' Defoe is played clear through but is flagged for offside - he looked level though.
    • 52' Valencia given too much space on the edge of the area - he cracks a shot from a tough angle and James has to tip it over. He is furious with his defence.
    • 51' All Pompey now - great cross from Belhadj onto the head of Crouch but the big man puts it wide!
    • 49' Pompey earn a free in a central area and Kranjcar takes it - it takes a big deflection but Palacios is there on the line again to clear.
    • 46' Traore the man to make way for Kranjcar.
    • 46' It seems to have taken us an age to get the second-half going at Fratton Park but we are back underway with Niko Kranjcar on for Pompey
    • HT And there is the half-time whistle - time for Tony Adams to earn his money with his half-time team talk.
    • 45 Straight down the middle with the penalty from Zaki - his eight league goal of the season.
    • 44' PEANLTY WIGAN - Diop slides recklessly on Bramble in the box to give away his second penalty of the week.
    • 43' Wigan now having a little spell of pressure to end the half.
    • 40' Great low cross on the right from Valencia - James dives out to gather and the ball slips past him - he is lucky that nobody was there to take advantage.
    • 37' Diop gets a great header onto a corner and it seems to be heading for the top corner but Wigan had a man on the line - Palacios - who was able to head away.
    • 33' Bramble goes sliding in on the edge of the area to bring down Traore - a clear booking and Pompey have a free in a dangerous area now...but it goes straight into the wall from Defoe.
    • 31' Portsmouth with a free kick just outside the box - Diarra has a shot but it is always going over and Kirkland can just watch it go over the bar.
    • 28' Wigan have just had a couple of corners but they haven't be able to do anything with either.
    • 25' Traore with a misplaced pass to Defoe and that sees a good attacking move end.
    • 24' Wigan's bright start is over but it is not like they are having to do much defending either. Poor stuff out there at the moment and the weather is awful too. Nobody having much fun.
    • 20' The free-kick was whipped by Diarra and it came after Cattermole had fouled Traore and got a yellow card for his troubles.
    • 19' Crouch with a lopped header from a free-kick and it goes OFF THE BAR!! the ball almost fall to Diop but he can only fire over from close range.
    • 16' Portsmouth finally get an effort on target but there is no power on the shot from Johnson and Kirkland can save with ease.
    • 13' We are into a scrappy passage of play - everybody is getting wet but little else.
    • 8' Close again from Wigan as Valencia fires a shot from outside of the area on target. Well set up by Palacios and James has to dive and save. That came after a little spell of Wigan pressure as Portsmouth struggled to defend a Koumas corner. All Wigan so far.
    • 5' Protsmouth have settle into the match know although they are yet to create a chance. Crouch just flicked on a header looking for Defoe but there was too much power in it. Expect that tactic to be tried often today.
    • 3' All Wigan in these opening stages and Zaki has come so close with a fantastic header after a cross from Cattermole that went just wide of the post.
    • 1' And we are underway in terrible conditions at Fratton Park.
    • - Sol Campbell and Glen Johnson also back for Pompey today - Jason Koumas has been added to the Wigan side.
    • - Teams coming out in the pouring rain but there is no need for floodlights as Wigan are wearing glow-in-the-dark yellow.
    • - Portsmouth currently lie seventh with 14 points while Wigan are in 18th and in the relegation zone with eight points after having lost their last four Premier League games.
    • - Welcome to Fratton Park for this Premier League tie between Tony Adams's Portsmouth and Steve Bruce's Wigan. The main team news is the return, as expected, of Jermain Defoe to the Pompey line-up. Full teams below.

  • Team Stats

    Portsmouth Stats Wigan Athletic
    57% Possession 42%
    20 Shots 18
    7 Shots on target 6
    2 Saves 3
    9 Corners 6
    11 Fouls 10
    1 Offsides 5
    0 Yellow cards 3
    0 Red cards 0
    26 Tackles 44
    292 Accurate passes 214
    56 Bad passes 41

  • Player Stats

    G =
    Goals
    S =
    Shots
    SoT =
    Shot on Target
    F =
    Fouls
    FW =
    Fouls Won
    O =
    Offsides
    A =
    Assists
    AP =
    Accurate Passes
    BP =
    Bad Passes
    T =
    Tackles
    • Portsmouth
      G S SoT F FW O A AP BP T
      1 David James 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 11 4 0
      23 Sol Campbell 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 25 0 2
      39 Nadir Belhadj 0 0 0 2 2 0 0 35 13 6
      5 Glen Johnson 0 4 1 0 0 0 0 28 1 6
      30 Armand Traore 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 9 5 0
      15 Sylvain Distin 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 41 9 3
      6 Lassana Diarra 0 1 0 2 2 0 0 48 10 4
      28 Sean Davis 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 27 5 2
      8 Papa Bouba Diop 0 2 1 3 1 0 0 21 0 2
      14 Jermain Defoe 0 6 1 3 1 1 0 9 1 0
      9 Peter Crouch 0 3 0 0 0 0 1 19 3 0
      21 Jamie Ashdown 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
      3 Younes Kaboul 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
      19 Niko Kranjcar 1 3 3 0 0 0 0 13 5 1
      22 Richard Hughes 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
      17 John Utaka 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 6 0 0
      16 Noe Pamarot 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
      27 Nwankwo Kanu 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
    • Wigan Athletic
      G S SoT F FW O A AP BP T
      1 Chris Kirkland 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 5 3 0
      17 Emmerson Boyce 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 3 0 1
      31 Maynor Figueroa 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 17 6 1
      25 Mario Melchiot 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 25 1 1
      19 Titus Bramble 0 1 0 2 1 0 0 10 4 3
      5 Wilson Palacios 0 3 0 2 0 0 0 28 5 10
      4 Lee Cattermole 0 1 0 2 0 0 1 31 4 6
      16 Luis Antonio Valencia 0 4 3 2 1 2 0 32 0 10
      10 Jason Koumas 0 2 0 0 2 0 0 28 7 5
      9 Emile Heskey 1 1 1 2 2 3 0 16 8 4
      13 Amr Zaki 1 6 2 0 3 0 0 19 3 3
      8 Kevin Kilbane 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
      27 Henri Camara 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
      7 Paul Scharner 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
      18 Daniel De Ridder 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
      2 Ryan Taylor 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
      12 Michael Pollitt 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
      11 Michael Brown 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

  • Summary

    • 90+1 HESKEY HAS WON IT FOR WIGAN - Cattermole slips in a little pass and the England striker is there to put it under James.
    • 89' Ohhh the ball is played across to Valencia and he has a great chance but his first touch is too heavy and James can save.
    • 86' Wigan break at pace and Valencia is put through on the right but James comes out and makes a key save.
    • 82' POMPEY ARE LEVEL!!! The substitute Krjancar has got it - a fine low drive from just inside the box after a corner bounced out to him.
    • 77' GREAT SAVE KIRLAND - another corner won in the air by Crouch and Defoe looks like he is going to score from six yards out but the former England keeper gets down qucik to save.
    • 74' Valencia chips the ball into the net on a Wigan counter attack but the flag goes up. It looks like he might have been onside though.
    • 68' Johnson curls a shot well over the bar but Pompey are really in control now. Zaki is back on the pitch by the way and seems to be ok.
    • 65' OFF THE BAR TWICE FROM POMPEY - Distin from a corner first and then Crouch with another header off the bar - Portsmouth just cannot score.
    • 63' The one thing Wigan fans do NOT want to see. Amr Zaki has gone down injured after a crushing tackle from Johnson - he seems to have hurt his ankle.
    • 56' 11 men on the line for the free-kick - some of them including Kirkland storm out and he saves from Defoe before the ball is deflected wide by a man on the line.
    • 55' Referee Peter Walton has given an in-direct free kick just 10 yards out after Chris Kirkland picked up the ball when Koumas played the ball back to him. It looked like it was a tackle for Koumas though not a back pass.
    • 51' All Pompey now - great cross from Belhadj onto the head of Crouch but the big man puts it wide!
    • 49' Pompey earn a free in a central area and Kranjcar takes it - it takes a big deflection but Palacios is there on the line again to clear.
    • 45 Straight down the middle with the penalty from Zaki - his eight league goal of the season.
    • 44' PEANLTY WIGAN - Diop slides recklessly on Bramble in the box to give away his second penalty of the week.
    • 37' Diop gets a great header onto a corner and it seems to be heading for the top corner but Wigan had a man on the line - Palacios - who was able to head away.
    • 19' Crouch with a lopped header from a free-kick and it goes OFF THE BAR!! the ball almost fall to Diop but he can only fire over from close range.
    • 8' Close again from Wigan as Valencia fires a shot from outside of the area on target. Well set up by Palacios and James has to dive and save. That came after a little spell of Wigan pressure as Portsmouth struggled to defend a Koumas corner. All Wigan so far.
    • 3' All Wigan in these opening stages and Zaki has come so close with a fantastic header after a cross from Cattermole that went just wide of the post.

Live Team Line-Up

  • Referee: Peter Walton

  • Portsmouth

    Manager: Tony Adams

    Captain: David James

    Starting line-up

    • D. James
    • G. Johnson
    • S. Distin
    • S. Campbell
    • N. Belhadj
    • S. Davis
    • L. Diarra
    • P. Bouba Diop
    • A. Traore Substitution Out (46′)
    • J. Defoe
    • P. Crouch

    Subs

    • N. Pamarot
    • N. Kanu
    • J. Ashdown
    • R. Hughes
    • J. Utaka
    • N. Kranjcar Substitution In46′ Goal
    • Y. Kaboul

    Injured

    None

    Suspended

    None

  • Wigan Athletic

    Manager: Steve Bruce

    Captain: Mario Melchiot

    Starting line-up

    • C. Kirkland
    • M. Melchiot
    • E. Boyce
    • T. Bramble Yellow Card
    • M. Figueroa Yellow Card
    • A. Valencia
    • L. Cattermole Yellow Card
    • W. Palacios
    • J. Koumas
    • E. Heskey Goal
    • A. Zaki

    Subs

    • K. Kilbane
    • M. Brown
    • P. Scharner
    • H. Camara
    • R. Taylor
    • M. Pollitt
    • D. De Ridder

    Injured

    • E. Edman

    Suspended

    None

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