Portsmouth News 24/7Writer: pompeyrug 
Date:Friday August 24 2007
Time: 10:40AM
UK time is: 17:13:50
Vital Login
Social Login
Choose your club
Other Sites
Network Navigation
Vital Partners
'If It's Football, It's Vital'
Pompey debate of the day (24/08/07)
Today's hot topic of debate for the fellowship of Vital Pompey, is surrounding tomorrow's match with Chelsea - on the subject of this, if you have not already made your predictions in the Pompey predictions league on this match do it here.
Harry Redknapp has said on the Pompey Site that Pompey will have to 'keep it tight' against Chelsea, but how tight is tight - what does that really mean? Will it mean being completely negative - as we have seen so much away from Fratton recently - or could it mean keeping it tight but with a genuine chance of looking to win, playing a 4-4-2 formation for example.
So the question is, how tight is tight - what sort of formation do you see Redknapp adopting?
Get involved and put forward your views in the Portsmouth Posts Forum by clicking here.
PLAY UP POMPEY!
To join the Vital Pompey debate - in the forum or with comments on articles - simply take a few seconds to register an account.
Use your social login to comment on front page articles. Login using you Facebook, Twitter, Google or LinkedIn accounts and have your say!
Your Comments
He will play very defensively until SWP opens up the defense like a can opener and delivers the killer cross for the first goal, then he will have to push up, I'm thinking 2 or 3-1. See you tomorrow!
Westl
Chelsea's form has been indifferent so far. Campbell should be fit I hear. Solid at the back not ultra defensive is the way for me flat back for with a solid holding player in front and try to attack them with the pace we possess. 1-1.
eastneydave
having sol back will be a huge bonus an will hopefully mean 'arry will go with a 4-4-2. keeping 2 players up front will cause chelski problems, utaka's pace will frighten the life out of them... maybe head ruling heart but i still fancy us for a 2-1 win!
pompeyrug
usually keeping it tight means 4-5-1 to Harry but that didn't work against united they were all over us till we switched to 4-4-2. then we got to play a big part in the game. We should go 4-4-2 as you need to give the so called big teams something to think about otherwise they'll just pick you apart. That said i expect Harry to go with the 4-5-1 thats failed us so often aginst the likes of Chelsea and United.
Steve C
I hope that HR will not fall back into his old failing away from home. New players new tactics I say Steve C.
eastneydave
If we go defensive the usual defeat will incur, I feel go at them and sod it
paultsmouth
I say go for it! Everyone is expecting us to lose, so why not give an attacking option a try 4-4-2.
L L Blue
You can't defend for 90 minutes against the likes of Chelsea. If we go into the game defensively we will lose and can't win, so why not give ourselves a chance of winning, no matter how small.
pompeygray
i can accept losing if we had played well and had a go. i know it can be frutrating losing when you dont deserve to but it is even worse losing knowing you were crap and deserved to. chelski are not untouchable like they once were, 2-1 to pompey... if we a not completely defensively minded!
pompeyrug
Have Your Say
Log in...
with your social network OR with your Vital account
Recent Articles
On this day in history...19th June (Wednesday June 19 2013)
Pompey start and finish at home (Wednesday June 19 2013)
Game on?! (Tuesday June 18 2013)
On this day in history...18th June (Tuesday June 18 2013)
Pompey face our biggest neighbours in Capital one (Monday June 17 2013)
A preference anyone? (Sunday June 16 2013)
On this day in history...16th June (Sunday June 16 2013)
If it aint broke... (Saturday June 15 2013)
On this day in history...15th June (Saturday June 15 2013)
Rooney another possibility for Pompey (Friday June 14 2013)
Archived Articles
Vital Members League (view all)
| 1. | eastneydave | 32 |
| 2. | Pompeytim | 26 |
| 3. | mslorna48 | 24 |
| 4. | pompeyrug | 20 |
| 5. | Jimsmithswig | 18 |
| 6. | storagematt | 11 |
| 7. | Lemmi | 7 |
| 8. | Gandor1 | 5 |
| 9. | dedmans | 4 |
| 10. | PFCblue | 4 |
League Results (view all)
| Latest Results |
League Table (view table)
| Team | P | W | D | L | GD | Pts |
| 14. Northampton | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 15. Oxford | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 16. Plymouth | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 17. Portsmouth | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 18. Rochdale | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 19. Scunthorpe | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 20. Southend | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Breaking League News
| Rovers Open With Exeter Test
» Bristol Rovers : 19/06/2013 16:54:00
|
| Foyle snaps up former City winger
» York : 19/06/2013 16:10:00
|
| York target joins Tranmere
» York : 19/06/2013 15:48:00
|
| Gentle start for City newcomer
» York : 19/06/2013 15:32:00
|
| Target could be Rovers bound
» York : 19/06/2013 15:05:00
|
| Former City favourite on the move
» York : 19/06/2013 14:07:00
|
| 2013/14 FIXTURES
» Chesterfield : 19/06/2013 12:38:00
|
Current Site Poll (view all polls)
|
|
1 © - All content copyright Vital Network Ltd, not to be reproduced without explicit permission Copyright Issues
Cookie Policy
At Vital Football, we along with most other modern websites use small files called 'cookies' to create the most secure, effective and functional website possible for our users. Without these files our business model, based on advertising, breaks down and we would be unable to continue to provide the services that you are here to utilise. By continuing to use this website after seeing this message, you consent to our use of cookies on this device unless you have disabled them. For full details please read our Cookie Policy which can be found here. However, if you would like to disable cookies on this device, please view our Cookie Policy which contains an opt-out tool for disabling advertising cookies. Please also visit our information pages on 'How to manage cookies' if you would also like to block all other types of cookies. Please be aware that parts of this site will not function correctly if you disable cookies.