Thomas Waddingham celebrates scoring Pompey's winner against Millwall. Picture: Jason Brown | Jason Brown

placeholder image — Thomas Waddingham celebrates scoring Pompey's winner against Millwall. Picture: Jason Brown | Jason Brown

‘Fairy-tale return, Dreadful mistake, Defended heroically’: Neil Allen’s Portsmouth player ratings against Millwall

Chief sports writer

Published 24th Oct 2026, 14:32 BST

The Blues move into eighth in the Championship in the early kick-off match

Thomas Waddingham was the Pompey hero with a late winner to fire them into the play-off positions - for now.

Introduced off the bench following his latest injury comeback, the Australian netted an 82nd-minute winner after Jake Cooper’s clearance deflected off him.

Earlier the Blues came back from 1-0 down after Nicolas Schmid’s awful kick presented Jenson Metcalfe with a sixth-minute lead.

That was cancelled out by Lyndon Dykes’ own goal following an Adrian Segecic free-kick - and then Waddingham claimed a 2-1 success to move the Blues into eighth.

And here are our Pompey player ratings...