RECAP as Portsmouth put promotion chasers to the sword at Fratton

Pompey face Rotherham under the Fratton lights tonight. Picture: Graham Hunt/ProSportsImagesPompey face Rotherham under the Fratton lights tonight. Picture: Graham Hunt/ProSportsImages
Pompey face Rotherham under the Fratton lights tonight. Picture: Graham Hunt/ProSportsImages
Pompey welcome promotion-chasing Rotherham United to Fratton Park tonight.

A response will be expected after the desperate display in Saturday’s 1-0 loss at Cheltenham Town.

Any hopes of making the play-offs with six games remaining appear virtually dead in the water.

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But supporters will be expecting much, much better from their players with decisions to be made on futures ahead of next season.

We’ll be building up to tonight’s game with all the talking points before team news drops at 6.45pm.

Then it’s more reaction before live blow-by-blow commentary from PO4 at 7.45pm.

LIVE: Pompey 3 Rotherham 0

Pompey break through Morrell who feeds Carter, his first-time cross is behind the Rotherham defence but can’t pick out Hirst and flies into Johansson’s arms.

Lindsay flies in late on Ogilvie and it’s a nasty one - gets a yellow. Maybe what Richard Hughes used to call an ‘orange card’.

Thompson gives the ball away 25 yards but Carter cleans up the situation for Pompey

Raggett dallies on the ball and Robertson is forced to take out Kayode at the expense of a booking.

Ogilvie with the ball across the face of goal but the flag is up as Hirst lurks.

Formation does look like a 4-2-3-1 but it’s Jacobs on the left not Curtis, who’s in the middle

Smith in late on Raggett in the Pompey box and gets a talking to from the ref

Rotherham get the game underway attacking the Fratton End.

Breaking news from Fratton Park tonight

Just over 15 minutes to kick off - and it’s VERY quiet. Remember when you see the attendance season tickets are counted whether are they in attendance or not.

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