Barnet v Portsmouth

[Ban Fat Stan]

Gutted to be missing this!

Approx 2,400 pompey expected so should be 4,500

New manager, Akinola back so I reckon we could get a result

2-1 Bees

 

[Bar Carousel]

There's a feel good factor going into this one. Hasn't been the case for a while.

If we are to expect anything from this Pompey team, it's to build you up then knock you down.

I went to this one last season where it turned poisonous in the away end and the game finished with verbals being dished out between fans and players.

Barnet are in reasonable form and with a new manager you can expect their players to be on it more so than normal.

I'll take a draw, which will give us a 3 game unbeaten run going into the big one next week at Carlisle.

 

[K-Win]

Very hard to predict this one. Our away form has generally been good, but stringing three wins together is always a big ask for us. I'll go with Carousel and predict a draw and happily take that.

 

[Bucket_]

What you two said. At this point I just want us to keep our momentum up, so I'll happily take a draw as well.

 

[BeesKnees]

Shame we didn't hold on but happy with the point

 

[Urban]

We played some of the best passing football I've ever seen from a Barnet team. Everyone on form today and more than matched Portsmouth.

I really do feel Vickers is a weak link though - that was at his near post and as well struck as it was, it was either a poor attempt at a save or bad positioning from him to let it in. You shouldn't be getting beaten from there and from that distance. Great shot though admittedly.

 

[Urban]

Having watched the highlights: Vickers positioning was indeed poor but the press from Sweeney was awful. Not quite sure he's ready for first team action yet

 

[rudebwoyben]

Sweeney had a couple of nice touches but his movement looked a bit ponderous.
Tremendous free-kick from Mauro and great performances all round by our team.
Looking at the goal highlights, I think Chaplin's shot was saveable. It was Pompey's only shot on target too!

 

[Urban]

It absolutely was saveable - look how far Vickers has to shuffle over before his dive even starts. And that's to reach his NEAR post. Awful positioning and I lose more faith in him every single week.

Stephens needs to return quickly.

 

[Don Tonberry]

It was a fucking dreadful mach between two poor teams. How Forde let that one in, I'll never know. Thankfully Chaplin bailed us out with a screamer but we could have had no complaints had we lost.

Not good enough, I'm afraid. Nowhere near good enough.

 

[Urban]

Fucking hell, if we were poor there then I'd love to see us play average!

 

[WAP]

As usual we just can't seem to win 3 games on the bounce, a points not the end of the world especially as we didn't play well and alot of the other top 7/8 drew.

 

[Don Tonberry]

Fucking hell, if we were poor there then I'd love to see us play average!

I wasn't that impressed with your performance, to be honest. You do know how to play to your strengths and Akinde did an excellent job in holding the ball up, but your goal came through a major goalkeeping error. I still don't know how Forde hasn't saved that.

Whilst I didn't think Barnet were that great, they were certainly better than Pompey on the day. That's one of our worst performances of the season and yet somehow we've come away with an undeserved draw. I can't remember us testing Vickers at all yesterday.

 

[rudebwoyben]

You didn't, your goal was your only shot on target.
Forde would have hoped for the wall to do its job for our goal.
From Jamal Lowe's display yesterday, I don't think he's one we are going to miss!

 

[Don Tonberry]

The ball wasn't even close to Forde, he should have at least attempted to save it.

Lowe was poor but our entire midfield were yesterday. Players like Bennett, Roberts and Baker should at least be capable of creating a few chances or having a pop themselves and yet they were anonymous. We got out of jail big time.

 

[rudebwoyben]

Roberts has always struck me as a player with good technique and a touch of finesse but he was utterly anonymous yesterday.
I think we're still a work in progress, hopefully it will come together in the next few matches.

 

[Look Out There Are Llamas]

The three times I've seen Vickers this season he's let in 3, potentially 4 goals he should have done better with...