Away Match Day Thread 02/03/2024 L1: Portsmouth v OUFC

[Northstandboy]

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Interview - Des Buckingham

Interview - Elliott Moore

Interview - John Mousinho

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Match Report

Ref Watch

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[Jster]

is it me or has CB taken a few poor corners this afternoon?

He's not that great at them in general. An occasional good one, but could do with a better taker. When we had Henry or Forde taking them, it was a lot better.

 

[WEYellow]

Decent half that, had more than our fair share of chances and could argue we should be ahead. Pompey going long has helped us, worried about the gap between our midfielders but luckily they haven’t clicked on yet. Murphy, Dale + Harris have caused havoc. Leigh, Mcguane + Brown been poor. Lang should be off, ref has been incredibly weak

 

[Made-in-Jericho]

One of the most accomplished halves of football this season. Apart from the very start.

 

[Blox21]

Some absolute whoppers on social media going mental after we concede early then totally disappear when we equalise.
Wankers, support the team for 90 mins then you can have your moan if it’s gone wrong

 

[ZeroTheHero]

Was fearing the worst, and after a couple of minutes it looked like that might happen. But actually it was a pretty good half of football from us. We have now got to try to stream two halves together!

 

[Coffin dodger]

is it me or has CB taken a few poor corners this afternoon?

Not just this afternoon

 

[ZeroTheHero]

CB should be taken off dead ball kicks (penalties excepted!) - the Murphy free kick that nobody quite got a head to showed that we have others who can do better.

 

[Swaby39]

Well credit where it’s due I think we’ve given as good as we’ve got there which is a lot more than I expected. I think it’s a fair scoreline thus far but we’ve been quite wasteful with some good positions.

I thought when we conceded that would be that. Dale looks a really good player, so tricky and full of ideas but not quite connected yet. The penalty win was genius, most players just put their laces through that for the sake of it. Clever player. Better day for Rodrigues too which is good to see. Stevens is a radical upgrade at right back in every way and we always look better with Moore playing.

Howler from Cumming but made some good saves since and been neat and tidy with a few bouncers.

All in all I’m suitably impressed despite Pompey (again) looking remarkably average. I expect them to be better this half. Can we manage a 90 minute performance?

 

[BrockBuster]

Best we've seen of Dale by a long way. Both full backs quiet which is probably for the best in a relatively end to end game, but a little guilty of slightly aimless balls up field.

McGuane has had some pretty sloppy moments but occasionally has slowed things down well. Hope he can up his game a bit.

Love RR and has been instrumental but as Radio Oxford have said, the booking was so needless and hope it doesn't come to haunt us.

Can't blame Des for the first goal, but can give him credit for the reaction afterwards. Very much in the balance but whatever the final score, we've had a half against top of the league where we've gone toe to toe, so fears of our overall demise post-Manning I would say are overblown.

Also impressive how Rosie has seemingly identified the wrong Oxford player more often than not! Brown has been Moore, Dale Murphy and a few in-between.

 

[WarwickOx]

This could go either way.. Harris is running like a trojan as per usual...
Come on boys!!!

 

[Yellows1]

We have rattled Pompey, keep up the good work!!!

 

[Sarge]

COME ON YOU U'S

 

[BrockBuster]

Do feel Pompey are the L1 masters of the string in the tail - nicking wins and taking points when underperforming. But my fingers will be crossed for the second half.

 

[Golden Dr Otto]

Manning OUT?

Easy question?

www.otib.co.uk

 

[chuckbert]

I felt more relaxed without Sam at rb. Marcus looking a bit jumpy at times. Apart from that the team is looking pretty good. One thing they could all be doing better is contesting aerial balls.

 

[Johnox37en]

Playing more like a team

 

[BigCrompy]

is it me or has CB taken a few poor corners this afternoon?

No Sarge, I don't think you've taken ANY poor corners this afternoon.

 

[Sarge]

great move- hit the post

 

[Scrongo]

Oooohah unlucky,

 

[bazzer9461]

COME ON YOU YELLOWS