Lincoln City 0-3 Portsmouth: Match Stats & Views From The Forum

Views from sedgleyimp following Tuesday night’s 3-0 defeat at home against Portsmouth in League One: “Little bit of reflection time has allowed me to consider three positives:

The main one is Freddie Draper who will be a very good player for us.

The second, which when you ship 3 goals may be a bit odd, but we do have a very decent young keeper in Josh Griffiths.

Thirdly, and again possibly a strange one, but will this make MA look at the qualities of the players we currently have and adapt how we play rather than expecting those players to play as we were this time last season. When we actually started to play in forward in the second half we looked much better and this has to be the way to approach games. Supporters will accept defeats far easier if the team has had a proper go. That needs to be done from the Accrington game otherwise we really will get dragged down into a fight for survival in this league.”

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More views from the Match Thread:

JT_LCFC: “Tough watch…and tough times at the minute. It will improve; the club structure is good and the board will not want us to sink without trace.

No pace is evident, no player can get beyond the forward line and we go back and put ourselves under pressure. On recent performance, Sorensen and Fiorini are far too lightweight for this standard of football, and give the ball away far too often. Bishop is talented but not one I’d take in the trenches currently.

Stick with it, it will get better I hope. Lessons from the summer will have been learnt, especially seeing Jez slumping further into his chair this evening.”

berksimps: “That was dreadful, a toothless performance, no fight, no desire, no teamwork, no strategy, no movement; completely outplayed by Portsmouth. We were given a football lesson: overrun at times, weakly surrendering at others.

The midfield was pathetic, Sorensen and Fiorini cannot play together, neither competes or puts in a tackle. They both probably have twice the skill level of Alan Power when he was here, but by comparison, they don’t battle and their belief and commitment is non-existent.

Saturday v Accrington is massive: changes are needed, give a chance to squad members who really want to wear the shirt.”

WellingtonImp: “I would certainly expect a more spirited performance on Saturday. It will be interesting to see what Accy do, whether they park the bus or go all out. Or do what Donny successfully did, stiffly is for 75 and then dominate the last 15. Saturday will be interesting. We need to get our noses in front, and hopefully early on, to ease any nerves.”

Have a go at our Lincoln City versus Portsmouth Quizzes, published last season (they were all correct at the time they were published):

Lincoln City 0-3 Portsmouth:

Three Things We Learned:https://t.co/ihvIOJluCA#ImpsAsOne #Pompey

— Vital Lincoln City (@VitalLincoln) November 26, 2021

Lincoln City 0-3 Portsmouth:

Match Stats & Views From The Forum:https://t.co/HUqerU9MV9#ImpsAsOne #Pompey

— Vital Lincoln City (@VitalLincoln) November 26, 2021

Lincoln City				Portsmouth
				Harness 45+3', Hirst 66', Hackett-Fairchild 89'
Griffiths				Bazunu
Poole				Ogilvie
Robson				Raggett (c)
Montsma				Freeman
Eyoma				Romeo
McGrandles (c)				Hackett-Fairchild
Sørensen			69'	Morrell			76'
Fiorini				Williams
Draper			86'	Harness			80'
Bishop			58'	Hirst			73'
Maguire				Curtis
Substitutes
Long (GK)				Bass (GK)
Jackson				Vincent
Roughan				Azeez
Adelakun			69'	Jacobs			73'
Sanders			86'	Thompson			76'
Gallagher				Ahadme
N'Lundulu			58'	Harrison			80'

Game Statistics
10	Goal attempts	21
2	On Target	6
3	Corners	3
13	Fouls	18
2	Yellow Cards	2
0	Red Cards	0
58	%	42