Long trek to south coast won't offer much comfort

Despite bright start, PNE were second best on day

- writes JOHN SMITH

For some of the travelling faithful who made the journey to Portsmouth on Saturday, an away win would have been greeted with the same ecstatic delight as if they had found a cafe serving up a full English breakfast, as well as an oasis, on a long trek through a dry desert.

Prior to kickoff I had expected us to take at least a point from this fixture if we could produce anything like our home performances in our wins against Leicester and Ipswich.

However, we failed to take anything back home from the South Coast following this dissappoint-ing 1-0 loss. The result also meant that we are still without a Saturday win on our travels since our 2-1 victory at Plymouth in March 2024.

We began quite brightly playing some decent passing football and moved the ball well without really creating any clear-cut chances.