Portsmouth News 24/7Writer: paultsmouth 
Date:Friday October 3 2008
Time: 12:20AM
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Guimaraes 2 - Pompey 2
Estadio D. Afonso Henriques
2/3/10/08
Attendance:
2 metre Peter is the man
Pompey overcame a nervy first half to blast through to the group stages of the UEFA cup. To be frank we were worse than awful first half, Guimaraes wipee the lead ou within half an hour and things looked grim, danger man Douglas scored the first, and Alves scored a long range daisy cutter for the second.
Half time couldn't come quick enough, 3-5-2 was more like 8-2 most of the half, Pompey were playing deeper than the squid like to roam. Harry obviously righted a few wrongs in the break, as we came out with the same team, but now Traore and Johnson were bombing forward at every opportunity, for all our possesion though Nilsson was not really seriously tested.
Extra-time was when it all came good, or rather the little break before it started, the cameras panned round and every Guimaraes player looked out on his feet, Pompey went for the throat.
The glory went to our one to watch from the preview, Crouch first scored a trademark nod in from a great Johnson cross, and then buried a beauty after a fantastic run by Belhadj.
Job done.
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Your Comments
Too knackered to write any more! But you all saw it anyway!
paultsmouth
Well done Pompey what a gr8 game well done Pompey
Play Up Pompey!!!
PompeyFcMad
9 and a half years ago i missed several games after a heart attack, halftime tomight thought i might be watching my last ever as another H.A seemed on the cards. Thank you Peter Crouch hopefully the doubters will leave you alone now, i never doubted you for a minute! Just wish Harry had played the same 11 in the first half as he did in the 2nd. Yessssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss
Pompeys European invasion continues.
Steve C
Well done Paul. I am too ********** to type anymore.
eastneydave
Pompeys European invasion continues? wait untill u come across Villa...... =] good luck, hope u get Ac Milan
Blitz
You guys don't know how lucky you are. If Peter Crouch was playing for Manchester City right now he would be a god. We would have bought him if we had the money in time. You got him... but expect us to come back for him some time soon.
Sindbad
seriously we werent very good at all! im so relieved. their first goal was such a handball! second goal was a fluke. our first was lucky cos of bad defending, and for the second belhadj did amazing - wasnt exactly a bad finish though!lets hope that the extra 30 mins doesnt effect us too much vs stoke. anyone know why utaka didnt make the bench? he passed a fitness test and was originally named in the starting line-up!
jbaker
absolutely chuffed, I woke up at 6 this morning Bangkok time, and the game was still in extra time, got on the bbc website just in time for the text to go in saying that Crouchie had scored. What a great result and the result is all that matters.
harrissman
Far as I know Bakes, Utaka never even flew out
paultsmouth
Great result in the end, although think Harry's tactics/formation were way off the mark in the first half.
bluedr
Every emotion experienced last night, after 30 minutes I thought it was al going to be over by half time and we'd end up on the end of another 6-0 drubbing as we were truly awful but as we got into our stride in the second half there was only gonna be one winner ... we just had to win it.. Glad Rodney scored it'll do him the world of good and take some pressure off of Defoe. ...and what a atmosphere from the lads and lassies out there... they did us proud.. and I bet they party all night
Chix
A good result in the end but we were worse than dreadful in the first half. I have never seen Sol Campbell play a worse game than that in my life! It was lucky that half time came and we were not dead and burried, but hey ho that is how football goes. Just wish we didn't have to do things the hard way as I am no knackered and have a stinking hangover.
sneakay
that was a cracking game!!
Brilliant managing by Harry in extra time, as soon as Belhadj came on with his attacking runs i knew we had em
The pompey fans were brilliant, an extra man on the field easy! lovely to see u guys going mental when Crouchy got the second.
nodster
Good to see Portsmouth progress - always nice to see an English team do well in Europe. I didn't think that you would do so after a poor first half performance, so well done.
Markcity
It's a game of 2 halves, 2 2/3rds in this one, I liked the 2/3rds best.
pompeyyong
I just knew when we went into extra time, that maybe we could do something, as Guimarres were really tired by then. I thought it was fantastic, a real rollercoaster of a game
Gandor
got back this afternoon - what an adventure! 1st half we were awful, 2nd alot better but still looked suspect, but much better. extra time we had the assistant to thank and jamo for at least a couple of saves before crouchy struck not once, but twice to leave us exstatic! and i was there :-)
pompeyrug
Just got out of bed, after a long, long night.
The experience was fantastic, we were an inspiration to the team werent we.
If anyone is contemplating a trip to Europe with Pompey my advice is GO, you will not regret it honest.
It was like a massive party from the moment we arrived at Stanstead until we got home to Liverpool and Warrington, and i reckon we did our reputation no harm at all.
Belhadj has to be signed, what a prospect, and Glen Johnson was brilliant.
Any more of those tour tee-shirts available, as we did see a few at the game.
What a night, was i dreaming, did we do it?
Play up Pompey
Owenspompey
Not long back home after my trip to see the game. Too knackered to repeat all you already know. However as a fan of over 30 years & having seen Pomey in 4 divisions home & away, this game was special. Another Pompey rollercoaster of emotions with a happy
ending.
storagematt
Awesome. Can't wait til the group stage !
Toronto4Pompey
btw " Sinbad ", the only reason Citeh is even in this competition is because of some bogus " Fair Play " berth so I don't think we need any lectures about not knowing "how lucky we are". Also, rich owners come and go so I wouldn't start planning your trip to a Champions League game anytime soon.
Toronto4Pompey
Well said Toronto,Sinbad Crouch was only ever comming to Pompey Citeh never even considered, & just because you have piles of cash does not give you the right to think you can have what you want. so show a little respect.
pompeyyong
I suppose they wouldn't be Pompey if they didn't put us through it. As for the second goal we conceded, what was that? Felt quite low at half time, shades of Citeh. And Nodster, yes we really did go loopy when Crouchy scored, it was a phenomenal moment! Thought Diarra had a dreadful game though, what was up with him?
tracyc
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