| Portsmouth v Swansea City : Match Thread 17:52 - Oct 31 with 23903 views | ModeratorC |
 Pompey v Swans : John Mousinho speaks plus do Pompey have a weakness 3rd Nov 2026 08:00The Swans are already in preparation for their trip to Hampshire for tonight’s game against Portsmouth (7:45pm) Head coach, Vitor Matos, who we reported exclusively yesterday will not be joining Portuguese club, Sporting Lisbon will be looking for the same domination and effort that saw his side demolish Blackburn Rovers on Saturday.  0
 Portsmouth 3 Swansea City 1 : That’s eight goals conceded in two away games 3rd Nov 2026 22:38The expected Portsmouth tactics showed up tonight, coupled with a rank-awful Swansea performance for nigh on seventy minutes, resulting in another away defeat. The time-wasting, fake injuries and targeting of Swansea players, which left Stephen Welsh unable to walk off the pitch, pretty much sorted this game out. Portsmouth, though, had the desire. Swansea did not. 1
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| Portsmouth v Swansea City : Match Thread on 09:01 - Nov 4 with 697 views | max936 |
| Portsmouth v Swansea City : Match Thread on 23:13 - Nov 3 by sons_of_omri |
I just knew looking at the line up we were going to struggle tonight. Losing Welsh is a killer - I only hope he’s not out for too long. Ben not at it tonight so I’d like to see Lissah and Seelt have a run. Key is fit again so why not?
If there’s anyone we really missed tonight though it was Stephen Eustaquio. We seem to have little if no control without him and the Fulton /Stamenic axis ain’t cutting it . |
Fulton and Stamenic are very similar players, not sure we can play them both together to be honest. |  | | |
| Portsmouth v Swansea City : Match Thread on 09:05 - Nov 4 with 673 views | onehunglow |
| Portsmouth v Swansea City : Match Thread on 08:26 - Nov 4 by wwcigne |
I think the slow aimless football we’ve played in the last two away games has invited opponents to attack us , cost us
Why doesn’t Matos set up like teams set up against us and stop giving them so much time and space on the ball
How we can be so good like the Blackburn game and so bad like Portsmouth and QPR is so frustrating
I know injuries will now dictate selection but his constant tinkering and changing the team seems to be affecting consistency , we’ve got better teams than those two to play coming up ,which is ominous
Find your best line up and stick to it ,fitness allowing
Fulton and Stamenic don’t look comfortable together and Widell is no winger ,he’s best in the midfield harrying players |
Think past night we saw Fulton and Stamenic on the half way line pass the ball three yards to each other four times
It is ludicrous and worrying
Why? | |
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| Portsmouth v Swansea City : Match Thread on 09:41 - Nov 4 with 566 views | sons_of_omri |
| Portsmouth v Swansea City : Match Thread on 08:26 - Nov 4 by wwcigne |
I think the slow aimless football we’ve played in the last two away games has invited opponents to attack us , cost us
Why doesn’t Matos set up like teams set up against us and stop giving them so much time and space on the ball
How we can be so good like the Blackburn game and so bad like Portsmouth and QPR is so frustrating
I know injuries will now dictate selection but his constant tinkering and changing the team seems to be affecting consistency , we’ve got better teams than those two to play coming up ,which is ominous
Find your best line up and stick to it ,fitness allowing
Fulton and Stamenic don’t look comfortable together and Widell is no winger ,he’s best in the midfield harrying players |
I’d never put Widdell on the wing it nullifies his best qualities. Yesterday I’d have played him at 10 and put eom and Opoku on the wings , either Franco or Stamenic not both in the same team and because of his illness I’d have benched Marco and played Franco. Fulton a definite first pick for me. As for the defence it looked like a very good combo with Seelt and Welsh but disaster struck and even though it didn’t look that bad a challenge the coms reckon he twisted his knee. Hope there’s no ligament damage 🙏.
As for up maybe it should have Stewart who started. Idah didn’t have a terrible game but he wasn’t able to hold the ball up. Maybe Stewart’s strength and aggression might have been the better option.
Then again who am I to criticise especially missing our real midfield heartbeat Stephen Eustaquio. That was probably our real demise not having him in the side. | | | |
| Portsmouth v Swansea City : Match Thread on 09:45 - Nov 4 with 544 views | Whiterockin |
| Portsmouth v Swansea City : Match Thread on 09:41 - Nov 4 by sons_of_omri |
I’d never put Widdell on the wing it nullifies his best qualities. Yesterday I’d have played him at 10 and put eom and Opoku on the wings , either Franco or Stamenic not both in the same team and because of his illness I’d have benched Marco and played Franco. Fulton a definite first pick for me. As for the defence it looked like a very good combo with Seelt and Welsh but disaster struck and even though it didn’t look that bad a challenge the coms reckon he twisted his knee. Hope there’s no ligament damage 🙏.
As for up maybe it should have Stewart who started. Idah didn’t have a terrible game but he wasn’t able to hold the ball up. Maybe Stewart’s strength and aggression might have been the better option.
Then again who am I to criticise especially missing our real midfield heartbeat Stephen Eustaquio. That was probably our real demise not having him in the side. |
Apparently Eom is injured he wasn't in the squad last night. |  | | |
| Portsmouth v Swansea City : Match Thread on 09:49 - Nov 4 with 520 views | sons_of_omri |
| Portsmouth v Swansea City : Match Thread on 09:45 - Nov 4 by Whiterockin |
Apparently Eom is injured he wasn't in the squad last night. |
Ah my bad. Bare bones then but even then if Stewart scored I’d have backed us to take all 3 points. Kind of wish we could have just won 3-0 against Blackburn and kept his goal for last night 😔 | | | |
| Portsmouth v Swansea City : Match Thread on 10:04 - Nov 4 with 486 views | bluenile26 |
| Portsmouth v Swansea City : Match Thread on 22:06 - Nov 3 by vetchonian |
Why is this Cabangos fault? |
It's not, I've said for a long time that he's not of the standard. Dress it up any way you want, but that's my long held belief. My main point is that we hardly ever play the same 11 (or near it) for any length of time. | | | |
| Portsmouth v Swansea City : Match Thread on 10:07 - Nov 4 with 475 views | onehunglow |
| Portsmouth v Swansea City : Match Thread on 10:04 - Nov 4 by bluenile26 |
It's not, I've said for a long time that he's not of the standard. Dress it up any way you want, but that's my long held belief. My main point is that we hardly ever play the same 11 (or near it) for any length of time. |
And it’s a good point too | |
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| Portsmouth v Swansea City : Match Thread on 10:08 - Nov 4 with 470 views | Fireboy2 |
| Portsmouth v Swansea City : Match Thread on 10:04 - Nov 4 by bluenile26 |
It's not, I've said for a long time that he's not of the standard. Dress it up any way you want, but that's my long held belief. My main point is that we hardly ever play the same 11 (or near it) for any length of time. |
Most top teams dont play the same 11 every game, the championship is a squad game now. |  | | |
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| Portsmouth v Swansea City : Match Thread on 10:31 - Nov 4 with 414 views | clloy2 |
| Portsmouth v Swansea City : Match Thread on 10:08 - Nov 4 by Fireboy2 |
Most top teams dont play the same 11 every game, the championship is a squad game now. |
Yes that is a valid point, but as we are starting to see now, is my belief that Matos genuinely believes that in our Match day squad (for arguments sake,say 16/17 players), they are all of the same ability and for given positions are all readily interchangeable. I base this on early season games, where without any major injuries, he was making wholesale changes match after match. Unfortunately, I believe, that we are not getting the consistency/player understandings, by making repeated changes. My second major concern, is within the extended squad of 16/17 players, we maybe are not as strong as we thought and certainly not all players are equal in terms of ability and performance levels. Having a squad to achieve a mid table finish and one to achieve a top 5 finish is massive. | | | |
| Portsmouth v Swansea City : Match Thread on 10:46 - Nov 4 with 389 views | jack247 |
| Portsmouth v Swansea City : Match Thread on 09:01 - Nov 4 by max936 |
Fulton and Stamenic are very similar players, not sure we can play them both together to be honest. |
It was more than that yesterday, it was those two, Widell and Franco. All great players, but you need a conductor to compliment the endeavour.
Losing our ball playing centre back early on didn’t help either. | | | |
| Portsmouth v Swansea City : Match Thread on 12:20 - Nov 4 with 246 views | Legend83 |
One word - ergh.
Looking at it with fresh eyes this morning, yes we were not at the races and too many individuals had poor games, but we were somewhat unlucky I would say with the way 2 out of 3 of their goals just landed perfectly at Devlin's feet. Or flip it round - he was lucky.
Vigs should definitely have kept the first one out by his standards and he looked shaky all night.
Felt for Stewart as he won all his headers including the great flick on for Vipi to win the penalty. To then miss a gilt-edged chance and be the one who headed the corner straight to Devlin... | | | |
| Portsmouth v Swansea City : Match Thread on 12:35 - Nov 4 with 220 views | KeithHaynes |
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| Portsmouth v Swansea City : Match Thread on 12:48 - Nov 4 with 177 views | jack247 |
| Portsmouth v Swansea City : Match Thread on 12:20 - Nov 4 by Legend83 |
One word - ergh.
Looking at it with fresh eyes this morning, yes we were not at the races and too many individuals had poor games, but we were somewhat unlucky I would say with the way 2 out of 3 of their goals just landed perfectly at Devlin's feet. Or flip it round - he was lucky.
Vigs should definitely have kept the first one out by his standards and he looked shaky all night.
Felt for Stewart as he won all his headers including the great flick on for Vipi to win the penalty. To then miss a gilt-edged chance and be the one who headed the corner straight to Devlin... |
One of those things with Stewart. Yes, I thought he played well and maybe looked better with Vipotnik than Idah does.
He’ll score that 9 times out of 10 and if it goes in, we’d very likely hold out and the mood on here would be completely different. | | | |
| Portsmouth v Swansea City : Match Thread on 15:34 - Nov 4 with 0 views | joserobertorene |
I couldn't watch the game live because of the time difference here in Mexico and a really heavy workday. When I got home, I waited until 9:00 PM (Mexican time) to see if they'd upload the full match on the club channel, but given the time zone difference, it was impossible until this morning.
I can't go into too much tactical detail just from watching the highlights, but a few things stand out clearly:
The first goal we conceded was completely preventable; a defensive mistake cost us.
Vipi's penalty was well-taken, it gave us a second wind, and if Stewart had scored right after, the game would have changed entirely.
The opposition's second goal felt like a stroke of luck for them, but as we say in Latin America: 'The goals you don't take, you'll concede' (los goles que no haces, te los hacen).
The third goal was totally avoidable. Cabango... as I've mentioned in another post, he's capable of playing a blinder and then turning into our worst player. But let's be honest, he never seems to spend time on the bench working to fix these recurring mistakes.
Without a doubt, this league is a battle of attrition. Tough matches coming thick and fast, injuries, dips in form, fatigue—it all takes a toll. But one thing I criticized Matos for last season was that the team would put in a brilliant performance and then drop off a cliff afterwards. We are definitely in a much better place than last season on our good days, but we haven't figured out how to stop the free-fall when we have a bad one. I don't know whether it's the manager, the players, the tactics, or just this relentless league that never gives you a breather, but it's our biggest threat this season." |  |
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| Portsmouth v Swansea City : Match Thread on 15:59 - Nov 4 with 0 views | howenjack |
Agree with Cabango . He is a bit of an enigma . I said many moons ago that he does seem inflexible and lacks natural joint mobility in the hip area. He also has a cumbersome running style but he also has a lot of credit in the bank from past heroics.
What I have noticed also is that he will have 4 or 5 good games followed by a relatively poor one . I think he should be rested every 4th or so game and play Seelt . We have to share the load. | | | |
| Portsmouth v Swansea City : Match Thread on 16:04 - Nov 4 with 0 views | union_jack |
| Portsmouth v Swansea City : Match Thread on 15:59 - Nov 4 by howenjack |
Agree with Cabango . He is a bit of an enigma . I said many moons ago that he does seem inflexible and lacks natural joint mobility in the hip area. He also has a cumbersome running style but he also has a lot of credit in the bank from past heroics.
What I have noticed also is that he will have 4 or 5 good games followed by a relatively poor one . I think he should be rested every 4th or so game and play Seelt . We have to share the load. |
I’ve only just seen their 3rd goal last night, I’d turned off thinking the game had finished.
Cabango was turned inside out. Not a reassuring sight I’m afraid. Can’t think of any opposition CH being destroyed like that. |  |
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| Portsmouth v Swansea City : Match Thread on 16:06 - Nov 4 with 0 views | max936 |
| Portsmouth v Swansea City : Match Thread on 15:59 - Nov 4 by howenjack |
Agree with Cabango . He is a bit of an enigma . I said many moons ago that he does seem inflexible and lacks natural joint mobility in the hip area. He also has a cumbersome running style but he also has a lot of credit in the bank from past heroics.
What I have noticed also is that he will have 4 or 5 good games followed by a relatively poor one . I think he should be rested every 4th or so game and play Seelt . We have to share the load. |
He's decent enough and I like him, but he does seem to lose concentration in some games, I wouldn't say that he goes missing, but I don't think his concentration is the best, I not gonna blame him for their third goal as it didn't really matter, he seemed to lose sight of the ball though and that was that. | | | |
| Portsmouth v Swansea City : Match Thread on 16:53 - Nov 4 with 0 views | Legend83 |
| Portsmouth v Swansea City : Match Thread on 16:04 - Nov 4 by union_jack |
I’ve only just seen their 3rd goal last night, I’d turned off thinking the game had finished.
Cabango was turned inside out. Not a reassuring sight I’m afraid. Can’t think of any opposition CH being destroyed like that. |
It was less concerning for me that he got turned inside out - a tricky forward can do that to anyone. It was more that he is supposed to be one of our bigger and stronger players and he got outmuscled by the (in fairness a fresh of the bench) oppo forward. | | | |
| Portsmouth v Swansea City : Match Thread on 19:48 - Nov 4 with 0 views | joserobertorene |
| Portsmouth v Swansea City : Match Thread on 15:59 - Nov 4 by howenjack |
Agree with Cabango . He is a bit of an enigma . I said many moons ago that he does seem inflexible and lacks natural joint mobility in the hip area. He also has a cumbersome running style but he also has a lot of credit in the bank from past heroics.
What I have noticed also is that he will have 4 or 5 good games followed by a relatively poor one . I think he should be rested every 4th or so game and play Seelt . We have to share the load. |
I understand backing Cabango, and you're right to point out that fatigue could be a factor. But it's clear that for a long time he's been a regular starter, and any other centre-backs brought in have simply been to partner him. Consequently, I don't think he's ever faced that reality check of feeling his place is in jeopardy—the kind where you realize it's time to step up or end up on the bench. | |
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| Portsmouth v Swansea City : Match Thread on 20:40 - Nov 4 with 0 views | SgorioFruit |
We pissed about last night and it has cost us top place (if for a while) I hope the players realise that. |  |
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| Portsmouth v Swansea City : Match Thread on 21:03 - Nov 4 with 0 views | onehunglow |
| Portsmouth v Swansea City : Match Thread on 20:40 - Nov 4 by SgorioFruit |
We pissed about last night and it has cost us top place (if for a while) I hope the players realise that. |
Game on | |
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| Portsmouth v Swansea City : Match Thread on 23:20 - Nov 4 with 0 views | Fireboy2 |
| Portsmouth v Swansea City : Match Thread on 20:40 - Nov 4 by SgorioFruit |
We pissed about last night and it has cost us top place (if for a while) I hope the players realise that. |
Sorry to ask this but do you actually know anything about football? | | | |
| Portsmouth v Swansea City : Match Thread on 06:56 - Nov 5 with 0 views | SgorioFruit |
| Portsmouth v Swansea City : Match Thread on 23:20 - Nov 4 by Fireboy2 |
Sorry to ask this but do you actually know anything about football? |
Yes | |
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