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BBC News
08-04-2025
- Sport
- BBC News
Pompey 'can't drift into panic territory'
Portsmouth boss John Mousinho has warned his players they cannot let themselves drift into a situation that is "too precarious" as he bids to keep them in the losing four of their last six league games, including Saturday's 2-1 defeat at Millwall, Portsmouth are 17th and four points above the relegation zone going into their final six matches. Ahead of a trip to Coventry City on Wednesday, Pompey manager Mousinho told BBC Radio Solent: "You have to get the right balance between remaining calm and making sure there is urgency as well about the way that we play and the fact that we do need to pick up points."We can't let ourselves drift into any situations that become too precarious and we've got to try and pick up as many points as quickly as we can."What you don't want to do is drift over into sort of panic territory and press the panic buttons, so not to confuse urgency with panic, but also not to confuse calmness with complacency."You've got to get the right mixture of of those two things and make sure that you come out on the right side of it. We want to be serious about the position we're in." Mousinho felt a lack of physicality and aggression in certain areas cost his side against Millwall, who had success at the Den with a more direct said: "I think that Coventry will probably try and play a bit more."Coventry have got that option [to be direct with two strikers] as well with [Haji] Wright and [Ellis] Simss, physical centre-forwards."They've got good physicality and athleticism throughout the team as well. They'll really have the ability to mix it."Until very recently they were the form team in the country. It's been an amazing job [by Frank Lampard] of taking Coventry from the bottom half of the table right up to play-off contenders."They sit one point outside the play-offs at the moment so, certainly in Frank's time there, they've been absolutely phenomenal."
BBC News
16-03-2025
- Sport
- BBC News
'We will not forget Baldock' - Sheff Utd boss Wilder
Sheffield United boss Chris Wilder said former defender George Baldock would not be forgotten after the team celebrated their derby win over rivals Sheffield Wednesday with a shirt emblazoned with his name and number on was found dead in a swimming pool at his home in Glyfada, southern Athens, in October at the age of Greece international spent seven seasons with the Blades and twice helped them win promotion to the Premier League before leaving for Panathinaikos last summer."We've been through a lot this season. From the changes of the ownership to the struggles pre-season and the minus two points and all the other things and then the tragic death of an incredible player and culture carrier," Wilder told BBC Radio Sheffield after Sunday's 1-0 win."We all knew his journey. When you talk about Chris Basham, Billy Sharp, David McGoldrick, Oli McBurnie, Sander Berge and Iliman Ndiaye he's right up there because of what he was about."I remember when he came here in the 4-2 [win over Sheffield Wednesday in September 2017] and he was absolutely outstanding."He would have loved today, it would have been right down his street."We recognise him and he is not forgotten. We have his shirt up in every home game and every away game and he is there with us... We wish he was still here." From 'pub league' to another Premier League promotion push Sunday's 1-0 win extended Wilder's own unbeaten record as Blades boss against the Owls to six games and also moved them back up to second in the the match Wilder looked back at how much things had changed since he took over for his first spell in charge in May were a League One side and Wednesday had just missed out on promotion to the Premier League in the Championship play-off final when Wilder was appointed at Bramall Blades went up from the third tier to the top flight in his first spell and are now looking to win promotion to the Premier League for the third time in six years."It feels good. I talked to the players before how we were ridiculed for being in League One, a pub league and all that since I took over in 2016," he told BBC Radio Sheffield."I wanted to adjust the narrative that we weren't a pub league side and all of a sudden it changes and now we're a rival. It changes, we're now 31 points above them [Wilder's side are 29 points above the Owls but started the season on minus two for defaulting on payments to other clubs in 2022-23]."He added: "To do the double over our rivals was always going to be a good day."We knew everything that was coming. We had the welcoming committee in the car park. It was the game that we thought it would be."
Yahoo
03-03-2025
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- Yahoo
Pick of the stats: Hull City v Plymouth Argyle
Hull City welcome Plymouth Argyle to the MKM on Tuesday (19:45 GMT) for a game with big implications at the foot of the Championship. After their FA Cup adventure ended at Man City on Saturday, the Pilgrims find themselves second-bottom, three points behind the fourth-bottom Tigers, albeit with a far inferior goal difference. A win for City could take them up to 19th, five points clear of the relegation zone. Hull City have won only one of their past seven meetings with Plymouth Argyle in the Championship (D2 L4), failing to win each of their last three (D2 L1) since a 1-0 away victory in February 2008. Plymouth Argyle are unbeaten in their past three league games against Hull City (W1 D2) and could avoid defeat in four straight meetings with the Tigers for the first time since doing so across the 2000-01 and 2001-02 seasons (W1 D3). Hull City have won the fewest points at home in the Championship this season (13 – W2 D7 L8), failing to win each of their five home league matches in 2025 (D2 L3), their longest winless start to a calendar year at the MKM Stadium since 2020 (P7 D1 L6). Plymouth Argyle are the only team in England's top four tiers yet to win an away game this season (D5 L12); they are the eighth Championship side to fail to win each of their first 17 away matches of a campaign, with each of the previous seven suffering relegation. Since his first Hull start in mid-January, Joe Gelhardt has had the most shots for the Tigers in the Championship (15) as well as created the joint-most chances (7 – level with Eliot Matazo).
BBC News
03-03-2025
- Sport
- BBC News
Pick of the stats: Hull City v Plymouth Argyle
Hull City welcome Plymouth Argyle to the MKM on Tuesday (19:45 GMT) for a game with big implications at the foot of the their FA Cup adventure ended at Man City on Saturday, the Pilgrims find themselves second-bottom, three points behind the fourth-bottom Tigers, albeit with a far inferior goal difference.A win for City could take them up to 19th, five points clear of the relegation City have won only one of their past seven meetings with Plymouth Argyle in the Championship (D2 L4), failing to win each of their last three (D2 L1) since a 1-0 away victory in February Argyle are unbeaten in their past three league games against Hull City (W1 D2) and could avoid defeat in four straight meetings with the Tigers for the first time since doing so across the 2000-01 and 2001-02 seasons (W1 D3).Hull City have won the fewest points at home in the Championship this season (13 – W2 D7 L8), failing to win each of their five home league matches in 2025 (D2 L3), their longest winless start to a calendar year at the MKM Stadium since 2020 (P7 D1 L6).Plymouth Argyle are the only team in England's top four tiers yet to win an away game this season (D5 L12); they are the eighth Championship side to fail to win each of their first 17 away matches of a campaign, with each of the previous seven suffering his first Hull start in mid-January, Joe Gelhardt has had the most shots for the Tigers in the Championship (15) as well as created the joint-most chances (7 – level with Eliot Matazo).
