English
Swansea dominated possession against Portsmouth at the Swansea.com Stadium, securing a 3-2 victory in a thrilling Championship match. Despite Swansea’s commanding 73% possession, the game was far from one-sided. Portsmouth took the lead through Ritchie’s goal in the 25th minute, assisted by Murphy, who then added a second for Portsmouth in the 45th minute. However, Swansea fought back with an own goal from Ogilvie in the 45th minute and a goal from Cullen in the 54th minute, assisted by Peart-Harris. Cullen secured the win for Swansea with another goal. The match saw yellow cards for Pack (Portsmouth) in the 1st minute, Cabango (Swansea) in the 9th minute, Ritchie (Portsmouth) in the 35th minute, and Cullen (Swansea) in the 36th minute. Further yellow cards were shown to Blair (Portsmouth) in the 71st minute and Dozzell (Portsmouth) in the 83rd minute. Portsmouth managed 6 shots (4 on target), while Swansea had 21 shots (6 on target). Swansea also enjoyed a significant corner advantage with 8, while Portsmouth had just 1. Swansea committed 7 fouls, compared to Portsmouth’s 11.
Substitutions portsmouth: at minute 55 M. O’Mahony came in and C. Bishop went out., at minute 67 H. Blair came in and M. Ritchie went out., at minute 67 C. Saydee came in and M. O’Mahony went out., at minute 81 P. Lane came in and J. Murphy went out.
Substitutions swansea: at minute 65 J. Eom came in and J. Allen went out., at minute 73 A. Abdulai came in and Ronald went out., at minute 73 F. Bianchini came in and Z. Vipotnik went out.
The teams lined up as follows:
Swansea
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