Portsmouth 2-3 Liverpool - Tony Adams Sacked

This was a game that Portsmouth could and should have won. They played well enough but surrendered at the end, to something of a sucker punch, when Fernando Torres introduced late as a not so secret weapon, headed a missile past goalkeeper James.

Most of the action, and all of the goals came in the second half, with Nugent opening the scoring for Pompey in the 62nd minute, targeting the ball under Reina's body. The lead was short lived, as Aurelio levelled the scores with a superb free kick that resulted from a suicidal back pass from Peter Crouch, which may have cost his side the game.

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Portsmouth went ahead again in the 78th minute, when Hreidarsson headed home a peculiar goal which Reina, perhaps, ought to have saved. It seemed all the home side needed to do was hold on, against what appeared to be a lack lustre Liverpool performance. Unfortunately the visitors were not done with.

Liverpool began to look dangerous, and in the 85th minute substitute Dirk Kuyt put them level for the second time, in a seesaw sort of game. Manager Tony Adams seemed to be feeling the pressure, as he lashed out with his foot at a seat or something else nearby. It had looked as though his side were going to get all the points but the pendulum was swinging.

In the dying second Torres won the game for Liverpool with a fine header from an accurate pass by Benayoun. The Anfield squad had won the day, seemingly against the odds, although a relieved Benitez might claim that it was all part of a clever plan! As for the luckless Tony Adams it was subsequently announced that he is to be replaced. The writing was on the wall as a result of a string of poor results since the departure of Harry Redknapp. It will be a stiff job for a successor to steer Pompey out of the relegation zone.

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