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Commentary
ASHDOWN did well to hold onto a wicked shot from FREI.
11¹GOAL!! UTAKA drove a wicked shot against the upright with BASINAS cracking in the rebound. (1-0 Portsmouth)
12¹A good effort from FREI scraped the outside of the post.
13¹A header by FREI at the far post was comfortably collected by the Portsmouth 'keeper.
24¹DA SILVA snapped at an easy chance.
26¹A shot from DA SILVA was smothered by the Portsmouth 'keeper.
33¹GOAL!! A glorious outswinging corner was nodded in at the near post by DA SILVA. (1-1)
35¹FREI galloped through the Portsmouth defence but shot straight at the 'keeper.
36¹A free-kick from BASINAS went inches wide.
STOCKER headed over.
An inswinging corner was headed into the arms of ASHDOWN by DA SILVA.
A mix up in the FC Basel defence enabled BELHADJ to fire the ball over the bar.
DA SILVA was put clear by INKOOM and he turned ASHDOWN but thrust his shot wide.
10²DA SILVA ran onto a wonderful ball from STOCKER but pulled his shot wide.
12²STOCKER dummied DINDANE but shot the ball into the arms of the 'keeper.
13²A clever cross from DINDANE was tapped goalbound by BASINAS only for the FC Basel 'keeper to claw away.
23²ABRAHAM stroked a simple chance past the lefthand post.
26²A cross from BROWN left BASINAS in plenty of space but he rushed his shot.
28²The hapless Portsmouth 'keeper was a mere bystander as a backpass from BELHADJ fell just over.
32²GOAL!! A goalmouth scramble culminated with DA SILVA firing the ball into the net. (2-1 FC Basel)
41²The FC Basel 'keeper saved a swerving shot from BEN HAIM.
44²GOAL!! With his back to goal STOCKER wrong-footed the defence and rattled the ball past ASHDOWN. (3-1 FC Basel)

 
FC Basel
 
League position: 10
Home league form: WXWW
Overall league form: WWXXWXWW
Formation: 4-3-3
Line-ups
Massimo COLOMBA1Jamie ASHDOWN
Samuel INKOOM2Steve FINNAN(c)
Kay VOSER3Nadir BELHADJ
Benjamin HUGGEL4Hassan YEBDA
David ABRAHAM5Tal BEN HAIM
ÇAGDAS Atan6Hayden MULLINS
Thomas CHATELLE7Aruna DINDANE
Antonio DA SILVA8Angelos BASINAS
(c,p)Alexander FREI9John UTAKA(p)
(f)Valentin STOCKER10Michael BROWN(f)
Federico ALMERARES11David NUGENT
Manager
Marco STRELLER  12  RICARDO Sérgio ROCHA
Beg FERATI  13  David GONZÁLEZ
Mattias LINDSTRÖM  14  Quincy OWUSU-ABEYIE
Behrang SAFARI15  Dusko TOSIC
Reto ZANNI  16  Tommy SMITH
 
Portsmouth
 
League position: 20
Away league form: LLLL
Overall league form: XLXLLLWL
Formation: 4-3-3

Statistics
FC Basel 3 Portsmouth 1
(Half-time: 1-1, Attendance: 38,308, Stadium: St. Jakob-Park, Referee: Danny Makkelie 7½)

da Silva 33¹, da Silva 32², Stocker 44²
Scorers
Substitutions
Sent off
Bookings
Corners
Fouls
Offsides
Shots on
Shots off
Total shots
Shots saved
Possession
Basinas 11¹
InkoomóSafari 11² 
  
  
27
43
78
125
126
2411
84
50%50%
Man of the match: Nadir Belhadj