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Opposition viewpoint: Financial problems are forgotten as Pompey win in style
POMPEY manager Michael Appleton celebrated a perfect day as his struggling side eased to a 3-0 win over Posh at London Road.
Three goals and a clean sheet led to just a second away win of the Championship season for Pompey and enabled them to move above Posh in the table.
It was also a superb end to a week which had started with the disclosure of more serious financial problems at Fratton Park.
Appleton said: “I can’t concern myself with all the nonsense off the field, but on it we were pretty much perfect.
“I watched videos of the last three Peterborough home games and took notice of what other teams have done to stop their attacking threat.
“We added a bit ourselves and I have to say the players carried the plan out to perfection. We knew Peterborough would try and play through us and we set ourselves up to stop that happening.
“And we did it so well I could only see them scoring from a 30-yarder. I can’t remember them getting behind us all game which was pleasing.
“We broke well when we had the ball as well which was encouraging. The early goal helped us to settle down and a second just before half-time was a real boost.
“We’ve achieved all of our targets. We wanted to win as we knew that would take us above Peterborough and we wanted a clean sheet.”
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tomk
Monday, January 30, 2012 at 07:07 PMWhat I have noticed is some people can handle it like Pompey did and others they cant Ipswich. I would play this tactic for the first half an hour then change it. We need to play with that unpredictabillity like we did first half of the season.
feduppete
Monday, January 30, 2012 at 05:35 PMPompey's game plan is what all teams are doing. See how we play and suss us straight away. We seem to have no other way of playing so it is easy for teams of quality to counter our formation and beat us every time. Can't see us winning another game unless we can surprise the opposition on the day which seems unlikely.
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