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Match report
English Footie
Championship: Round 45 (setup 1, season 30)
Rochdale
v.
Portsmouth
Formation:
4-3-3
League position:
12
Overall form:
Home form:
Nestor 'Fernando' MUSLERA Fernando616Wojciech SZCZESNY
Formation:
4-4-2
League position:
1
Overall form:
Home form:
JOÃO Pedro da Silva PEREIRA2JUAN Guilherme Nunes Jesus
Dennis AOGO737Lars BENDER
Jérémy TOULALAN747Miralem PJANIC
DAVID COSTAS Cordal57RICARDO Domingos Barbosa PEREIRA
ADRIANO Correia Claro67Aymeric LAPORTE
Wesley SNEIJDER78Osvaldo 'Nicolás' Fabián GAITÁN
Gervais Yao Kouassi, GERVINHO68Ángel Fabián DI MARÍA
Samuel ETO'O Fils69Marco REUS
Jan KIRCHHOFF108Juan BERNAT Velasco
Alexandre Rodrigues da Silva, ALEXANDRE PATO117Romelu LUKAKU
ManagerNigel Beck
Darko LAZOVIC12Nicola SANSONE
Josh LILLIS13Jeroen ZOET
Rafael VAN DER VAART14Ilkay GÜNDOGAN
Aleksandr KERZHAKOV15Alex IWOBI
Clément GRENIER16Javier HERNÁNDEZ Balcázar

Rochdale 2 Portsmouth 3
(Half-time: 2-3, Attendance: 58,935, Stadium: Spotland, Referee: Neil SWARBRICK 5½)
16 Gervinho, 27 GervinhoScorers25og Adriano, 32 Lukaku, 41 Gaitán
Substitutions
Sendings off
86 AdrianoBookings3 Di María, 79 Reus, 80 Ricardo Pereira
3Corners0
6Fouls8
0Offsides0
4Shots on6
12Shots off8
16Total shots14
2Shots saved3
47%Possession53%
Man of the match: Juan BERNAT Velasco
3DI MARÍA booked for a high challenge on SNEIJDER.
6ETO'O shot wide.
8ETO'O made space on the left and touched the ball to GERVINHO who touched the ball wide.
10A tame strike from TOULALAN trickled agonisingly wide.
14GAITÁN rasped the ball through a crowd of players but the 'keeper was a match for it as he dived to his right.
16GOAL!! A deep cross by ALEXANDRE PATO was met by GERVINHO who charged in to score. (1-0 Rochdale)
20A good ball from TOULALAN on the left found ADRIANO who mishit his effort over the bar.
25GOAL!! A shot from RICARDO PEREIRA deflected off the head of ADRIANO and bobbled past the helpless Rochdale 'keeper and over the line.
27GOAL!! GAITÁN tried to play the ball out of the Portsmouth penalty area but was tackled by ALEXANDRE PATO who forced the ball to GERVINHO for an easy tap in. (2-1 Rochdale)
32GOAL!! . (2-2)
41GOAL!! The Rochdale 'keeper got into difficulty with a backpass from ADRIANO and GAITÁN managed to scramble the ball into the back of the net. (3-2 Portsmouth)
44ETO'O was put clear by GERVINHO and he stepped inside the Portsmouth 'keeper but glanced his shot over.
 
49A twenty yard drive from GERVINHO caused SZCZESNY little difficulty.
53ETO'O scuffed a simple chance.
63GAITÁN ran onto a wonderful ball from DI MARÍA but dragged his shot wide of the goal.
67PJANIC beat two Rochdale players and stroked a great chance just wide.
77A drive from GAITÁN seemed a certain goal but MUSLERA managed to force the ball clear.
79MUSLERA saved a swerving shot from GAITÁN.
79REUS booked for gamesmanship.
80A high tackle gets RICARDO PEREIRA a yellow card.
86ADRIANO cautioned by the referee.
89SNEIJDER headed wide.