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News.com.au
17-07-2025
- Sport
- News.com.au
Waddingham scores, Segecic provides assist in Portsmouth pre-season win
Former Brisbane Roar striker Thomas Waddingham scored as a Portsmouth outfit featuring four Australian players secured a 5-0 pre-season win over Farnborough. Waddingham was joined by ex-Sydney FC pair Adrian Segecic and Hayden Matthews, and former Central Coast Mariners defender Jacob Farrell as Portsmouth manager John Mousinho used 22 players across the two halves. Waddingham netted the game's fourth goal, while Segecic, who joined the English Championship club after being a co-winner of last season's A-League Golden Boot, provided the assist for Portsmouth's second goal, scored by Harry Clout. 'That's two more sets of 45 minutes that we've got through injury-free, which is the main positive, but we're also happy with the performance and result,' Mousinho said. Farrell, who is embarking on his second season with the club after a maiden campaign that was marred by a knee injury, said having a strong Australian contingent at Portsmouth was helpful. 'It's been really good to have the Aussie boys here,' Farrell told the Portsmouth website. 'We all help each other, whether it's outside of football or on the pitch. It's a big help.' Now fully fit, Farrell said he was 'ready to play hard' this season. 'I haven't really had a break but that was needed to get my knee right, but it's been really good. I'm feeling really fit and strong at the moment, and ready to go,' he said. 'I'm in the best physical state my body's been in.'
BBC News
27-01-2025
- Sport
- BBC News
'Mousinho finally has options in defence'
Portsmouth tried to sign Hayden Matthews last summer but couldn't reach agreement with Sydney FC. Now they have got their Thomas Waddingham this is the capture of a very promising young player however Matthews is considered much closer to being ready to play in the Championship than the Pack has played the past three months as a makeshift centre-back so it was clearly a position Portsmouth needed the arrival of Rob Atkinson on loan and Conor Shaughnessy now close to fitness John Mousinho will finally have the options in defence. It's been a position cursed by injury this there is a big gap in standard between the A-League and the Championship but Portsmouth believe it's a country and a league where there is good value for money in the transfer market.
BBC News
27-01-2025
- Sport
- BBC News
Portsmouth sign Australia defender Matthews
Portsmouth have signed Australia defender Hayden Matthews for an undisclosed fee from A-League club Sydney 20-year-old, who won his first cap in November, has signed a four-and-a-half-year deal with the Championship is the second Australian to move to Fratton Park this month after striker Thomas Waddingham joined from Brisbane in Australia say Portsmouth have paid £1.26m for Matthews - making him the most expensive defender in Australian football. "He's a really promising young centre-back and player that we've been tracking for quite some time," Portsmouth manager John Mousinho told the club website."There wasn't the opportunity to bring him over here in the summer, so we're delighted that he's been able to join us now."Hayden is someone with a huge amount of potential, but he's already played a lot of first-team games in a short amount of time."He's 6ft 5in, but is also very mobile and doesn't just rely on his height. There's a real physicality there, while he's calm and composed with the ball at his feet."
