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Pompey boss has clear message to players after promotion blow
Wednesday, 1st May 2019 19:04 by pompey-fans.com staff

Kenny Jackett is telling his Pompey troops to lift themselves quickly after the disappointment of missing automatic promotion as they face their final league game and then the play-off semi-finals.

The heartbreaking 3-2 defeat at home to Peterborough means they can no longer catch Luton or Barnsley, and sets up Saturday's home clash with Accrington as the game that will dictate where in the play-off zone they will finish and who they will play.

If they win on Saturday they will finish third and meet Doncaster or Peterboro in the play-off semis.

Jackett says it's only right everyone is down about the top two miss but says they have to put that behind them sharpish. He told the Pompey website: 'I’ve told the lads they can be disappointed tonight and tomorrow, although they have to get over it by the time we come in on Thursday morning.

'We’re not going up automatically and have to be ready for the play-offs — football’s the wrong industry to dwell on things. It was a great chance to take things to the final day, but there’s enough time for us to recover by the time we go again on Saturday.

'We’ve got 87 points and that’s no mean total, so we want to try to get up to 90. We want to secure third spot and have the second leg at Fratton Park.'

Jackett was gutted to see the Blues lose to the Posh: 'It was end-to-end and we were looking for things to fall for us, but Peterborough produced a big away performance. We had done well to claw it back to 2-2 and were then trying to drive towards our own fans and get the winner.

'We played with plenty of passion and enthusiasm. We gave it everything and unfortunately it didn’t work out for us.'

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