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Match report
English Footie
League 1: Round 43 (setup 4, season 28)
Colchester United
v.
Portsmouth
Formation:
4-3-3
League position:
23
Overall form:
Home form:
Jason STEELE51Joe LUMLEY
Formation:
4-3-3
League position:
19
Overall form:
Home form:
Cuco MARTINA72Victor MOSES
Marco 'Davide' FARAONI73Aaron CRESSWELL
Kris COMMONS4Stuart O'KEEFE
Florin GARDOS58Ragnar SIGURŠSSON
Pat BALDWIN667Liam FONTAINE
Don COWIE777Mauro Abel FORMICA
Junior STANISLAS87Quincy OWUSU-ABEYIE
Jay BOTHROYD697Jordan HUGILL
Igor VETOKELE106Gareth EVANS
Theo ROBINSON11Hameur BOUAZZA
Manager
Ben DICKENSON12Matt CLARKE
Sam WALKER13Marco SILVESTRI
Luke NORRIS14Anton WALKES
Courtney SENIOR15Sylvan EBANKS-BLAKE
Ollie SIMS16Patrick CREGG

Colchester United 2 Portsmouth 4
(Half-time: 2-4, Attendance: 7,380, Stadium: Community Stadium, Referee: Jarnail SINGH 7½)
2 Bothroyd, 16 StanislasScorers17 Owusu-Abeyie, 23 Hugill, 31 Hugill, 38 Owusu-Abeyie
Substitutions
Sendings off
76 BothroydBookings
8Corners5
16Fouls4
0Offsides0
5Shots on4
4Shots off12
9Total shots16
2Shots saved0
42%Possession58%
Man of the match: Ragnar SIGURŠSSON
2GOAL!! A Colchester United counter-attack allowed VETOKELE to setup BOTHROYD with an easy goal. (1-0 Colchester United)
7EVANS beat COWIE and blasted the ball to OWUSU-ABEYIE who pulled his effort wide.
8A good effort from OWUSU-ABEYIE scraped the outside of the lefthand post.
11FORMICA headed wide.
15The 'keeper saved a curling shot from FARAONI.
16GOAL!! A lovely set-piece enabled STANISLAS to crack the ball into the back of the net. (2-0 Colchester United)
17GOAL!! A short goal-kick was intercepted by FORMICA who setup OWUSU-ABEYIE with a simple chance. (2-1 Colchester United)
23GOAL!! An inswinging corner nodded out by MARTINA was drove into the net by HUGILL. (2-2)
26STANISLAS brought the ball past FONTAINE and flicked a poor shot wide.
31GOAL!! . (3-2 Portsmouth)
37FORMICA kicked the ball wide of the lefthand post from just inside the area.
38GOAL!! Portsmouth's OWUSU-ABEYIE beat two defenders before firing just inside STEELE's righthand post. (4-2 Portsmouth)
39BOTHROYD was put clear by MARTINA and he stepped inside the Portsmouth 'keeper but glanced his shot just beyond the far post.
44COWIE ran onto a wonderful ball from VETOKELE but dragged his effort wide of the righthand post.
 
47FONTAINE beat three Colchester United players and slammed an effort just beyond the far post.
48EVANS floated the ball to FORMICA who touched it over.
55VETOKELE fired a looping shot wide from twenty yards out.
57A header by BALDWIN at the near post was comfortably collected by LUMLEY.
61FORMICA snapped at an easy chance.
64BOUAZZA made space on the right and touched the ball to HUGILL who rasped the ball over.
65A free-kick from EVANS floated over.
67A perfect shot from STANISLAS was dealt with by a useful parry from the Portsmouth 'keeper.
68A tame strike from O'KEEFE bounced agonisingly wide.
76BOTHROYD booked.
90A penalty box meleé resulted in OWUSU-ABEYIE tapping the ball over.
90+3The bemused 'keeper was a mere bystander as a backpass from BALDWIN fell just wide.