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Commentary
OKOYE dived to his right to save a fierce shot from Portsmouth's LANE.
The stunned GUZAN was all agog as a backpass from OGILVIE dropped just wide.
11¹AZPILICUETA shot over.
14¹VASSILEV ran onto a wonderful ball from JAMES but pulled his shot wide.
16¹SWANSON booked for a bad foul.
25¹VASSILEV drove a deadly shot over the bar from twenty yards out.
27¹DEAN cautions GUZAN for a bad tackle.
29¹LANE worked the ball to MUSABA, OSMAJIC latched onto his cross and hoofed the ball within easy reach of OKOYE.
30¹VASSILEV was put clear by BUREY and he turned the Portsmouth 'keeper but glanced his shot wide.
33¹ARMSTRONG given a yellow card by the referee.
42¹A strike from JAMES held no problem for the Portsmouth 'keeper.
44¹VASSILEV chipped the ball to ARMSTRONG who turned it just wide.
A poor tackle gets GORDON a yellow card.
MUSABA made space on the left and dragged the ball to OSMAJIC who rasped the ball over.
A shot from LANE was hoofed off the line by GORDON.
Uncertainty in the Portsmouth defence enabled ARMSTRONG to thump the ball just wide.
14²GOAL!! A terrible clearance fell to GORDON who sliced a shot goalward, luckily ARMSTRONG was on hand to hit the ball into the back of the net. (1-0 Birmingham City)
22²A corner bobbled toward LUCAS PIRES who forced an effort over.
25²OSMAJIC hoofed the ball wide of the lefthand post from the edge of the box.
29²A free-kick from VASSILEV flew just beyond the far post.
30²DARLING booked for dangerous play.
32²A useful ball from GORDON on the left was collected by FREY who mishit his shot wide.

 
Portsmouth
 
League position: 9
Home league form: XXXW
Overall league form: XLXXXWXW
Formation: 4-3-3
Line-ups
(c)Brad GUZAN1Maduka OKOYE
Zak SWANSON2Cesar AZPILICUETA(c)
LUCAS PIRES Silva3Emmanuel LONGELO
Dominik FRIESER4Denis ZAKARIA
Harry DARLING5Luke McNALLY
Connor OGILVIE6Nico GORDON
Anthony MUSABA7Tyler BUREY
Paddy LANE8Indiana VASSILEV
(p)Milutin OSMAJIC9Michael FREY(p)
(f)Colby BISHOP10Jordan JAMES(f)
Chuba AKPOM11Sinclair ARMSTRONG
Manager
Ryley TOWLER  12  Ivan SUNJIC
Anthony RACIOPPI  13  Pierluigi GOLLINI
Joe BRYAN14  Lukas JUTKIEWICZ
Joe MORRELL  15  Marcel OAKLEY
Fankaty DABO  16  Josh McEACHRAN
 
Birmingham City
 
League position: 1
Away league form: WWWO
Overall league form: WWOWLWOW
Formation: 4-3-3

Statistics
Portsmouth 0 Birmingham City 1
(Half-time: 0-0, Attendance: 20,271, Stadium: Fratton Park, Referee: Mike Dean 6)

 
Scorers
Substitutions
Sent off
Bookings
Corners
Fouls
Offsides
Shots on
Shots off
Total shots
Shots saved
Possession
Armstrong 14²
OgilvieóBryan 4² 
  
Swanson 16¹, Guzan 27¹, Darling 30²Armstrong 33¹, Gordon 3²
23
106
00
34
514
818
22
49%51%
Man of the match: Dominik Frieser