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Commentary
A penalty box meleé resulted in SINANI driving the ball wide.
GOAL!! An energetic LUCAS PIRES ran down the left wing and knocked the ball back for LANE to slip home. (1-0 Portsmouth)
SINANI was put clear by DANIELS and he beat the 'keeper but struck his shot wide.
11¹MUSABA flicked an easy chance past the righthand post.
16¹DA COSTA clipped the ball through a ruck of players but RÚNARSSON was a match for it as he dived to his left.
19¹A corner found LUCAS PIRES who touched an effort just beyond the near post.
20¹The Walsall 'keeper did well to hold onto a wicked strike from LUCAS PIRES.
24¹A great save prevented EKUBAN from scoring a lovely goal.
25¹A fine piece of skill was ended by a good save by the advancing Portsmouth 'keeper.
32¹GOAL!! A one-handed save from RÚNARSSON enabled RICHARDS to force the ball into the empty net. (1-1)
34¹GOAL!! After SINANI was fouled the referee waved play-on and EKUBAN went on to comfortably score. (2-1 Walsall)
40¹A tame strike from SINANI trickled agonisingly wide.
42¹SINANI scuffed a simple chance.
46¹LANE headed wide.
The Walsall 'keeper was able to block a tame header from OSMAJIC.
LANE ran onto a delightful ball from MUSABA but pulled his effort wide of the righthand post.
An exceptional effort from SINANI scraped the outside of the righthand post.
20²MORRELL floated the ball to OSMAJIC who touched it over the bar.
23²A mix up in the Walsall defence enabled OSMAJIC to hit an effort over.
25²DA COSTA's header was well saved by RÚNARSSON.
28²EKUBAN brought the ball past FRIESER and poked a tame shot over.
29²The bemused Portsmouth 'keeper was a mere bystander as a backpass from MORRELL dropped just wide.
30²GOAL!! A great thirty yard shot from TEIXEIRA hit the upright and in the ensuing scramble the ball was hoofed into the net by EKUBAN. (3-1 Walsall)
34²FRIESER beat DANIELS and flicked the ball to LANE who toe-poked his shot wide.
38²OSMAJIC kicked the ball wide from just inside the area.
43²GOAL!! A twenty-five yard free-kick was expertly drove into the roof of the net by SINANI. (4-1 Walsall)

 
Walsall
 
League position: -
Home league form: ----
Overall league form: --------
Formation: 4-3-3
Line-ups
Aynsley PEARS1Rúnar RÚNARSSON
Julien DACOSTA2Zak SWANSON
Omar RICHARDS3LUCAS PIRES Silva
João TEIXEIRA4Dominik FRIESER(c)
Jon GUTHRIE5Harry DARLING
Donervon DANIELS6Connor OGILVIE
Jérémie BELA7Anthony MUSABA
Danel SINANI8Paddy LANE
(p)Caleb EKUBAN9Milutin OSMAJIC(p)
(f)Josh GINNELLY10Joe MORRELL(f)
(c)Nuno DA COSTA11Colby BISHOP
Manager
Anthony O'CONNOR  12  Sean RAGGETT
Liam ROBERTS  13  Anthony RACIOPPI
Luke LEAHY  14  Joe BRYAN
Ben GORDON  15  Fankaty DABO
Shane FERGUSON  16  Lee EVANS
 
Portsmouth
 
League position: -
Away league form: ----
Overall league form: --------
Formation: 4-3-3

Statistics
Walsall 4 Portsmouth 1
(Half-time: 2-1, Attendance: 11,007, Stadium: Bescot, Referee: Andre Marriner 5½)

Richards 32¹, Ekuban 34¹, Ekuban 30², Sinani 43²
Scorers
Substitutions
Sent off
Bookings
Corners
Fouls
Offsides
Shots on
Shots off
Total shots
Shots saved
Possession
Lane 7¹
  
  
  
65
911
23
83
78
1511
42
51%49%
Man of the match: Anthony Musaba