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The Wednesday Wonder: Aruna Dindane
The Wednesday Wonder: Aruna Dindane | Is there hope for Pompey? Maybe if you’re an eternal optimist. I just like to think of it as something that Portsmouth fans can reminisce about next season when they are taking the Coca Cola Championship by storm. That is just where the state of Pompey football is at the moment. One 4-0 victory is not going to suddenly turn things around for the better, but for that to happen, Piquionne and Dindane are going to have to put in these types of performances week in and week out. Aruna Dindane was absolutely class on Saturday, and he was duly reward with a treble to his name.
The match got underway in a defensive battle. It seemed as though it may have been heading into the break at 0-0, but then Portsmouth found some life with ten minutes remaining. After Dindane received a beautiful through ball, all he had to do was beat the keeper, which he did with the outside of his right foot. Then, on the stroke of halftime, Piquionne doubled Pompey’s lead on yet another beautiful through ball. The finish was slightly more difficult, but the result was the same. Portsmouth went into the half sitting on a 2-0 lead.
Had you been watching the match, you may have expected that the best would be yet to come for Wigan, but that just wasn’t the case. Twenty minutes into the second half there was some hectic play in front of the Wigan goal, which eventually led to an easy tap in for Dindane. That would give him his second goal of the match, but there was more yet to come.
Just for good measure, Dindane was able to finish off his hat-trick when Kanu was brought down in the Wigan box with under a minute left in regulation. The final score of 4-0 really showed how well Portsmouth played on this day, and just how terribly Wigan performed. I can’t see many more of these victories down the road for Pompey, but for now it can be their lone bright spot in what has been a very dismal season.
For all of you Pompey fans out there, I am praying that there will be more of these performances to come, but I just can’t see it happening. Aruna Dindane was fantastic on this day though, and his performance is something you can treasure from this season. That is exactly why he is this week’s Premiership Talk Wednesday Wonder! Congratulations, Aruna!
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One defeat in the last four Premier league games, with only one goal conceded? Taylor remember these guys haven’t had a pre-season together so for them to be coming into form now is unsurprising. I think Hart’s done a good job, keeping the spirits high what with the amount of set-backs they’ve had.
Squelch – Yes I probably am being unfair in declaring them ready for relegation this early in the season, but the point i’m trying to make is that they aren’t doing much of anything. Do they have the talent? Yes. Are they capable of winning plenty of games and avoiding the drop? Yes. Is any of this happening right now? No, and that’s why I’m jumping on them because I know that they are capable of much better and they should be doing much better.
I think you’re being a little unfair to Pompey. Although they’re clearly not to the standard of the upper-echelons on the Premiership, they have shown a lot of promise in recent games. Key to their survival is consistency, and if they can get a result on Saturday against Blackburn, they can get out of the drop-zone. There’s plenty of talent in that squad, more so than the teams around them.
15 goals conceeded in 11 matches, less than liverpool….and hull, wolves, west ham, burnley, bolton, birmingham, setting the place on fire…. give it a break!!