Pompey Post Match

[Mike]

Nice to see some proper football!

[tiktu]

Great win for us but the papers will write about Gerrard's elbow.

[Matt]

That ESPN commentator is determined to get Gerrard banned eh

[Rafa_el_Gafa]

Gerrard was a silly boy! Could land a suspension.

We look much better without Lucas and Kuyt. Only 1 of our midfielders plays it sideways and we also get more people nearer Torres.

[Mike]

Have to be honest i missed the elbow, was it really that bad?

Back to the positives, we played attacking (yes, attacking) football with confidence and kwailty.

Aquilani is finally showing what he can do and can only get better, babel is also more confident and improving.

[johnly]

That'll do nicely. 3 pts on a weekend in which Villa and Citeh dropped points. If Spurs can lose a few we're well back in the champions league race. Good to see some nice flowing football today, more of the same Thurs and Sun please

[Rich]

Good performance overall, second half was a litte underwhelming but it was nice to see Aquilani, Maxi and Babel give performances something approaching what they should be capable of.

Torres is simply top class, and the same goes for Reina.

[red g]

aquiliani looked like he could be a bit special

[Shaggy]

Aquilani performed for the first time and deserves to keep his place against Lille. It'll be very interesting to see if Rafa keeps him in for the trip to Manchester on Sunday. He's still got it all to prove against teams who get in his face - he had so much time and space tonight - but that was a huge improvement. His pass to Torres for the 4th goal was class.

[ronanm]

Great first half. Second thought we were a little predictable in the final third and then picked it up again. Well played Torres with 2 and 2 assists - 15 goals in 15 PL games this season. Aquilani looked very tidy as well. Thank God Kuyt wasn't out there for a change. Would like to see the same team out against Lille and then see for the Scum..

[Mike]

I stil dont fancy us for fourth though, not to put a downer on anything.

[The Erectile Banana]

Have to be honest i missed the elbow, was it really that bad?

Back to the positives, we played attacking (yes, attacking) football with confidence and kwailty.

Aquilani is finally showing what he can do and can only get better, babel is also more confident and improving.

He should have seen red.

First half was the best I've seen us play in a long time. Aquilani was very good, hopefully he can continue in this vein.

A great confidence booster. Now we need to take this kind of form into our next two games.

[Molby]

It looked like the sheckles were off the players tonight with no Lucas or Dirk.

This is the way it should be every week.

More of the same please lads

[G]

good game,shame we'll lose Gerrard for 3 games.Hope sunday isn't one of them

Silly boy.

[Mike]

He should have seen red.

First half was the best I've seen us play in a long time. Aquilani was very good, hopefully he can continue in this vein.

A great confidence booster. Now we need to take this kind of form into our next two games.

Intentional then?