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Commentary
A penalty box scramble resulted in TORRADO knocking the ball wide.
12¹An inswinging corner was touched into the arms of JAMES by GIMÉNEZ.
14¹A accurate pass fell to DINDANE and his left foot shot flew narrowly over.
18¹LÓPEZ nodded the ball wide from just outside the area.
19¹REIJGWART yellow cards HUGHES for a poor foul.
21¹JAMES saved a lovely strike from TORRADO.
24¹A deadly shot from MOKOENA was pushed round the post by the Cruz Azul 'keeper.
28¹BASINAS shot over.
34¹A free-kick from UTAKA raced wide.
39¹A delightful save prevented SMITH from scoring a lovely goal.
DINDANE made space on the left and knocked the ball to HUGHES who fired the ball wide.
A cross from HUGHES left FINNAN in lots of space but he fluffed his shot.
A shot from BELHADJ held little difficulty for CORONA.
10²MOKOENA beat RIVEROS and blasted the ball to UTAKA who fumbled his shot wide.
12²UTAKA poked a simple chance past the lefthand post.
13²BASINAS rushed an easy chance.
14²GOAL!! On the right wing HREIÐARSSON collected a defender's clearance and hit it across the box for MOKOENA to drive it over the line. (1-0 Portsmouth)
18²A poor strike from LOZANO bounced agonisingly wide.
22²LOZANO's header was well saved by JAMES.
28²GOAL!! After some neat play on the right FINNAN came inside and fired the ball into the net. (2-0 Portsmouth)
39²CORONA was able to palm clear a poor header from SMITH.
43²Uncertainty in the Cruz Azul defence enabled BASINAS to hit the ball inches wide.

 
Portsmouth
 
League position: 12
Home league form: WLLW
Overall league form: LWLXLWLX
Formation: 4-3-3
Line-ups
(c)David JAMES1José CORONA
Steve FINNAN2Julio DOMÍNGUEZ
Nadir BELHADJ3Melvin BROWN
Aaron MOKOENA4Gerardo TORRADO
Tal BEN HAIM5Horacio CERVANTES
Hermann HREIÐARSSON6EDCARLOS Conceição
Aruna DINDANE7Israel LÓPEZ(c)
Angelos BASINAS8Christian GIMÉNEZ
(p)Tommy SMITH9Emanuel VILLA(p)
(f)Richard HUGHES10Cristian RIVEROS(f)
John UTAKA11Manuel VELA
Manager
Papa Bouba DIOP  12  César VILLALUZ
Jamie ASHDOWN  13  Rogelio CHÁVEZ
Hayden MULLINS  14Mario ORTÍZ
Marc WILSON  15  Fausto PINTO
Danny WEBBER  16Jaime LOZANO
 
Cruz Azul
 
League position: 10
Away league form: WLXL
Overall league form: LWWXWLWX
Formation: 4-3-3

Statistics
Portsmouth 2 Cruz Azul 0
(Half-time: 0-0, Attendance: 20,173, Stadium: Fratton Park, Referee: Johannes Reijgwart 6)

Mokoena 14², Finnan 28²
Scorers
Substitutions
Sent off
Bookings
Corners
Fouls
Offsides
Shots on
Shots off
Total shots
Shots saved
Possession
 
 GiménezóLozano 15², TorradoóOrtíz 31²
  
Hughes 19¹ 
41
86
812
97
94
1811
76
55%45%
Man of the match: José Corona