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BBC News
11-04-2025
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'Derby game is Pompey's biggest for many years'
As I write more than 24 hours on, the sickener on Wednesday night remains on my mind. Disappointment this season has been a regularity for Portsmouth fans and, although never easy to get over, is routinely something we have dealt with - but the manner in which devastation was handed to Pompey in this game will live long in the been there and watched us lose every one of the 15 games in which we have succumbed to defeat on the road this season, that is the worst I have felt leaving an away Bromwich Albion, Derby and Stoke all embarrassing in equal measure and unacceptably poor. Wednesday night was couldn't have asked for any more in terms of defensive performances from the likes of Regan Poole and Connor Ogilvie right up to 93-and-a-half minutes in.A characterisation of the cruel mistress that we call the Championship embodied in a heartbeat - make one mistake with 20 seconds on the clock and face the devastating consequences.I make it seven points that Pompey have let slip in time post the regulation 90 minutes this season. That leaves little consideration other than to think that it's a mentality issue. Too many times a lead or a point has been let slip with moments to spare.A green shoot from the congested Championship run-in is that attention turns very quickly to the biggest game for Pompey in many, many it and the season is defined by a critical victory and only a handful of points will then be needed from the remaining subsequent (or anything but win) and we will be left in nothing other than serious worth pointing out there have been moments this season in which the pressure has been very much on for John Mousinho's side to get a result when really needing mind takes me back to the lead up to both the Cardiff and Stoke games this season where a seismic win was an absolute necessity. We delivered on both those is also noteworthy is that Pompey are the best positioned team at this juncture of any of the other sides desperate to avoid the would not want to swap either our run of games nor our league position with any other team within a handful of points below it is completely in our hands at Fratton Park. On many an occasion this team has delivered on home soil with the backing of some of the most vociferous support in the time to do it again.
BBC News
02-04-2025
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- BBC News
I've adapted to the Championship
Portsmouth defender Connor Ogilvie says he has adapted to life in the Championship in his first season playing at this 29-year-old impressed again last weekend during Pompey's 1-0 win over Blackburn Rovers at Fratton Park."I always try to believe in my ability, I knew I could do it," Ogilvie told BBC Radio Solent ahead of the trip to Millwall on Saturday (15:00 BST)."It was just a case of adapting to the Championship and I feel like I've done that now."Ogilvie, who switched from left-back to centre-back in the past two games and has also chipped in with four league goals this season, says he's worked on being "more aggressive" and "subtle details" in training to improve."That is why I joined Portsmouth, to be in the Championship," said Ogilvie, who spent three years in League One with the club before winning promotion last season."Obviously it took a little while longer than we hoped for but we got there and we just need to maintain that Championship status now."Pompey are seven points clear of the drop zone in 17th with seven games remaining and Ogilvie says "results are the main thing now"."It's in our hands, we've put ourselves in a good place but now it's just about us, what we do on the pitch to get the results needed to stay up," he added."Performances could be here nor there, so we just need to get the results and hopefully the performances to match them." Listen to Connor Ogilvie's full interview on BBC Sounds
BBC News
10-02-2025
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- BBC News
Make or break time for Pompey
Saturday was probably the only occasion this season when Pompey have gone away from home and deserved to win the game, yet ended up losing were two almost identical sitters for Connor Ogilvie and Callum Lang respectively in the first Bishop was called marginally offside in the second and that left 2,500 of our fans completely stunned as to how we didn't come away with a point at the very, very the answer is actually quite a straightforward one - Pompey didn't put it in the back of the net and therein lies the difference. Sheffield United did to Pompey what Pompey did to a number of League One sides last season en route to promotion. That is, finding a way to win the game even when you haven't played particularly well.A win on Saturday wouldn't perhaps have relieved any pressure on Tuesday night - which remains a colossally important game at Fratton Park - but it would have been one almighty confidence boost heading into next six matches will now define Pompey's season. It is seriously make or the time of writing, 20th-placed Pompey play 24th, 23rd and tomorrow night, 19th-placed Cardiff all within this next fixture got to win at least four of those six games - and after a brief glance at the fixture list of now 15 to go, Pompey have 14 winnable matches. That has to be the bizarre to think that, given how tame in front of goal we have appeared of late, Pompey remain the top scorers of any other side in and around them by quite some distance and have outscored every other side in the bottom Mousinho's side can't afford to go five without a win by 10pm tomorrow points would be the most welcome start to such a crucial period in Pompey's hunt for here to find out more from Tom and Fournilwrittenalloverit, external
