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0¹ KAMARA brought the ball round DOUGHTY and stroked a weak shot into the crowd. 4¹ GOAL!! A scuffed HIRST shot fell to SOLER who made no mistake from the edge of the box. (1-0 Portsmouth) 10¹ A pin-point pass bobbled toward VLASIC and his deadly shot raced narrowly over. 12¹ A corner fell to LUNDSTRAM who touched the ball over the bar. 12¹ VLASIC headed the ball wide of the lefthand post from just outside the area. 14¹ LUNDSTRAM beat RIIS and hit the ball to SIERRALTA who toe-poked his effort wide. 16¹ GOAL!! A one-fisted punch from the 'keeper enabled CHARLES-COOK to head the ball into the empty net. (1-1) 17¹ The Portsmouth 'keeper was able to block a powerful shot. 18¹ GONÇALO GUEDES made space on the left and knocked the ball to KAMARA who touched the ball wide. 20¹ GOAL!! BALUTA drove a fierce shot against the woodwork with SCARLETT knocking in the rebound. (2-1 Portsmouth) 21¹ Uncertainty in the Portsmouth defence enabled SURRIDGE to fire an effort wide. 31¹ A useful ball from ZIMMERMANN on the left fell to DOUGHTY who sliced his shot over. 33¹ SCARLETT ran onto a great ball from VLASIC but toe-poked his shot wide of the righthand post. 40¹ VLASIC headed over the bar. 43¹ GONÇALO GUEDES floated the ball to LUNDSTRAM who nodded it inches over. 9² VLASIC was put clear by HIRST and he beat the Gillingham 'keeper but glanced his shot just beyond the near post. 13² GOAL!! SURRIDGE brought the ball forward, looked up and blasted a shot into the Portsmouth net. (2-2) 17² A good effort from SIERRALTA scraped the woodwork. 21² SOLER stormed through the Gillingham defence but shot straight at the 'keeper. 27² VLASIC scuffed a simple chance. 36² GOAL!! An inswinging corner was hoofed clear only for LUNDSTRAM to fire the ball into the back of the net. (3-2 Portsmouth) 40² HIRST flicked a simple chance past the lefthand post.

Portsmouth   League position: 17 Home league form: LWLW Overall league form: LOLWLWXW Formation: 4-3-3

Line-ups George WICKENS 6  1 5½ Matej KOVÁR Zak SWANSON 6½ 2 7  TOMÁS do Lago ESTEVES Julio SOLER 7½ 3 7½ Alfie DOUGHTY (c)John LUNDSTRAM 8  4 7  Shaun WILLIAMS Francisco SIERRALTA 8  5 6½ Christoph ZIMMERMANN(c) Tudor BALUTA 6  6 7  Connor OGILVIE Abu KAMARA 7½ 7 7  Stuart O'KEEFE Nikola VLASIC 7  8 6½ Regan CHARLES-COOK (p)George HIRST 7  9 7  Sam SURRIDGE(p) (f)GONÇALO Manuel GUEDES 6  10 6  Emil RIIS(f) Dane SCARLETT 6½ 11 5½ Tom NICHOLS Manager Hayden MATTHEWS    12    Will WRIGHT Alex BASS    13    Egil SELVIK Owen DODGSON    14 6  Max EHMER Sam GREENWOOD    15    Ben REEVES Ovie EJARIA    16 7½ Hakeeb ADELAKUN

Gillingham   League position: 9 Away league form: LWWL Overall league form: LWWWWLWL Formation: 4-3-3

Statistics

Portsmouth 3 Gillingham 2 (Half-time: 2-1, Attendance: 20,136, Stadium: Fratton Park, Referee: Anthony Taylor 7½) Soler 4¹, Scarlett 20¹, Lundstram 36² Scorers Substitutions Sent off Bookings Corners Fouls Offsides Shots on Shots off Total shots Shots saved Possession Charles-Cook 16¹, Surridge 13²   ZimmermannóAdelakun 22², OgilvieóEhmer 25²         3 3 11 13 2 2 4 4 15 4 19 8 1 1 55% 45% ¶ Man of the match: John Lundstram ¶