RECAP: Portsmouth 2-0 Morecambe - How Blues closed the gap on the top six
The Blues secured their first win in three thanks to goals from Marcus Harness and Connor Ogilvie either side of full-time.
And by doing so also extended their unbeaten run in the league to nine matches.
Scroll through our live updates to see how events unfolded.
LIVE: Portsmouth v Morecambe
Key Events
- Pompey are looking to extend their unbeaten league run to nine games
- The Blues are still suffering from an illness bug with 14 senior players availabe
- Danny Cowley was awarded November’s League One manager of the month award
Pompey can consider themselves lucky as Kieron Freeman was caught on the ball inside his own box before a teasing ball drilled across the box fortunately finds Romeo who clears. Testing times for Cowley’s side at present
Pompey’s first chance in a small while falls to Azeez who catches the ball on the way up and balloons over. Pompey haven’t got going yet.
The ball breaks to McCalmont on the edge of the box and he leaves Bazunu rooted to the spot but sees his dragged effort deflected wide. The Shrimps the better of the two at the moment.
Harness does well to retain possession after his blocked shot re-finds him before chipping a ball to the backpost wher Curtis heads into the grateful palms of Letheren