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Commentary
1¹The 'keeper saved a clever shot from ALEX TEIXEIRA.
7¹WESTERMANN's shot beat the Rochdale 'keeper but rebounded off the Rochdale upright.
12¹A bad foul on ALEX TEIXEIRA by WESTERMANN results in a booking.
19¹A shot from LONG seemed a certain goal but FREY managed to force the ball away.
21¹A wonderful save prevented SIGURÐSSON from scoring an exceptional goal.
24¹GOAL!! A wonderful dummy from SIGURÐSSON allowed GOUFFRAN to lay a perfect ball off to LONG who glanced the ball into the net. (1-0 Rochdale)
29¹A corner was collected by MORETTI who flicked an effort over the bar.
30¹MILLER books KALOU.
34¹LALLANA headed just beyond the far post.
35¹GOAL!! A short goal-kick was intercepted by DIOGO VIANA who setup LALLANA with a simple chance. (1-1)
38¹A pin-point pass bobbled toward LONG and his right foot effort raced narrowly wide.
43¹A great effort from WESTERMANN scraped the upright.
0²PELLÉ ran onto a delightful ball from LALLANA but fumbled his effort wide of the righthand post.
0²LONG's shot was well saved by FREY.
3²SHUNIN did well to hold onto a powerful strike from WESTERMANN.
12²KALOU made space on the right and pulled the ball to PELLÉ who clipped the ball wide.
21²GOAL!! TIENDALLI drove a powerful shot against the upright with LONG knocking in the rebound. (2-1 Rochdale)
27²An outswinging corner was fired into the arms of FREY by TIENDALLI.
29²A header from LONG was hoofed off the line by BOYATA.
32²A free-kick from LALLANA flew over the bar.
43²SIGURÐSSON rasped the ball through a ruck of players but FREY was a match for it as he dived to his right.
45²MILLER books LONG for violent conduct against DIOGO VIANA.

 
Rochdale
 
League position: 6
Home league form: WLWX
Overall league form: XWLOLWWW
Formation: 4-3-3
Line-ups
Anton SHUNIN7 16½Sebastien FREY
Roman SHISHKIN7½27 Heiko WESTERMANN
Dwight TIENDALLI8 36 Emiliano MORETTI(c)
Mikel SAN JOSE7 46½Fernando GAGO
Sokratis PAPASTATHOPOULOS7 57 Mathieu BODMER
(c)Matías SILVESTRE6½67 Dedryck BOYATA
Sebastian LARSSON6½77 DIOGO Filipe VIANA
ALEX TEIXEIRA7½87 Adam LALLANA
(p)Shane LONG7½96½Graziano PELLÉ(p)
(f)Gylfi Þór SIGURÐSSON7 105½Nicklas BENDTNER(f)
Yoan GOUFFRAN6½116 Salomon KALOU
Manager
Royston DRENTHE  12  Peter CROUCH
Zeljko BRKIC  13  Andreas ISAKSSON
Emanuel POGATETZ  14  MARCELO de MATTOS Terra
Jean-Armel KANA-BIYIK  15  Roy BEERENS
 16  Riccardo BROSCO
 
Portsmouth
 
League position: 21
Away league form: XLXX
Overall league form: LXWLLLXW
Formation: 4-3-3

Statistics
Rochdale 2 Portsmouth 1
(Half-time: 1-1, Attendance: 20,167, Stadium: Spotland, Referee: Patrick Miller 8)

Long 24¹, Long 21²
Scorers
Substitutions
Sent off
Bookings
Corners
Fouls
Offsides
Shots on
Shots off
Total shots
Shots saved
Possession
Lallana 35¹
  
  
Long 45²Westermann 12¹, Kalou 30¹
16
136
21
125
48
1613
84
55%45%
Man of the match: Dwight Tiendalli