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Match report
English Footie
Premier League: Round 8 (setup 1, season 31)
Cheltenham Town
v.
Portsmouth
Formation:
3-5-2
League position:
4
Overall form:
Home form:
Jan OBLAK617Wojciech SZCZESNY
Formation:
4-4-2
League position:
13
Overall form:
Home form:
FILIPE LUIS Karsmirski2Aymeric LAPORTE
Ignazio ABATE83Marcelo BROZOVIC
Alexis Alejandro SÁNCHEZ Barbé74Miralem PJANIC
Jan VERTONGHEN57Joshua KIMMICH
Samuel UMTITI766JUAN Guilherme Nunes Jesus
DOUGLAS COSTA de Souza677Osvaldo 'Nicolás' Fabián GAITÁN
Ivan RAKITIC8Ángel Fabián DI MARÍA
Pierre-Emerick AUBAMEYANG797Marco REUS
Henrikh MKHITARYAN107Erik DURM
Kevin DE BRUYNE116Romelu LUKAKU
Lee HaighManagerNigel Beck
Bruno MARTINS-INDI126Nicola SANSONE
Anthony LOPES13Jeroen ZOET
Manuel TRIGUEROS Muñoz14Ilkay GÜNDOGAN
Thomas LEMAR15Stevan JOVETIC
Stephan EL SHAARAWY16Javier HERNÁNDEZ Balcázar

Cheltenham Town 3 Portsmouth 2
(Half-time: 1-2, Attendance: 64,613, Stadium: Whaddon Road, Referee: Uriah RENNIE 7½)
12 Sánchez, 64 De Bruyne, 74 SánchezScorers9 Reus, 23 Durm
Substitutions77 Durm <=> Sansone
Sendings off
41 Sánchez, 61 RakiticBookings1 Lukaku, 86 Reus
7Corners6
10Fouls14
3Offsides3
6Shots on4
8Shots off6
14Total shots10
3Shots saved2
47%Possession53%
Man of the match: Ignazio ABATE
1LUKAKU booked.
4REUS beat RAKITIC but fired the ball into the arms of the Cheltenham Town 'keeper.
9GOAL!! Unlucky GAITÁN hit the upright before REUS flicked the ball home as MKHITARYAN failed to clear. (1-0 Portsmouth)
12GOAL!! A hefty goal-kick from VERTONGHEN caught the Portsmouth defence napping and SÁNCHEZ rushed through to sidestep the 'keeper and score. (1-1)
19DURM rushed an easy chance.
23GOAL!! A deep corner left the Cheltenham Town 'keeper struggling and DURM banged the ball over the line. (2-1 Portsmouth)
37SÁNCHEZ ran onto a wonderful ball from DOUGLAS COSTA but blasted his effort wide of the lefthand post.
41SÁNCHEZ receives a yellow card for a bad challenge.
42A corner was collected by SÁNCHEZ who touched an effort inches over.
43DI MARÍA fired the ball through a ruck of players but the Cheltenham Town 'keeper was a match for it as he dived to his right.
 
49KIMMICH was put clear by LAPORTE and he pulled away from the 'keeper but struck his shot over the bar.
54A lovely effort from SÁNCHEZ scraped the outside of the righthand post.
56A free-kick from PJANIC floated just beyond the near post.
59SÁNCHEZ's header was well saved by SZCZESNY.
60GAITÁN beat DE BRUYNE and flicked the ball to DI MARÍA who dragged his shot wide.
61RAKITIC receives a yellow card by the referee.
64GOAL!! A mishit backpass by JUAN enabled DE BRUYNE to nip in and tuck the ball past the 'keeper. (2-2)
71A cross from RAKITIC left DOUGLAS COSTA in plenty of space but he scuffed his shot.
74GOAL!! A deep cross from ABATE on the left was nodded home by SÁNCHEZ at the far post. (3-2 Cheltenham Town)
86REUS booked by RENNIE for a bad challenge.
87SÁNCHEZ shot wide.
89DE BRUYNE made space on the left and pulled the ball to AUBAMEYANG who clipped the ball wide.