'Four days which may have saved Pompey's season'

You'd be hard pressed to find a better four-day period for Pompey this season.

Albeit still an incredibly tight situation at the bottom of the Championship, to beat two teams back to back, home and away, both with a strong shout of being Premier League sides next season, is as remarkable as it is bonkers.

Pompey hadn't won a league game in eight before Saturday's trip to Middlesbrough.

Fratton Park hosted what ended up being an incredibly consequential night at both ends of the division last night. By quite some way, our best performance of the season.

The implications of our two results since the weekend are enormous internally - and for a group of players who were completely on the floor just a few weeks ago at Loftus Road, this week is a confidence boost which comes just at the right time.

The back four were monumental, a vintage Marlon Pack display, and the best we've seen from Millenic Alli since his first three games here.

Pompey did what we've struggled to do all season in the first half. A gripe that has underpinned our campaign has been leaving points out on the pitch. Time and again John Mousinho's side have struggled to net gilt-edged chances, and ended up paying the price in defeat. Last night, Pompey went in two goals ahead, having put two of our four big opportunities in the back of the net.

That set the tone for an accomplished second-half performance, and, despite some of the most talented players at this level being sent on by Kieran McKenna, Pompey's clean sheet felt threatened on only a handful of occasions.

Cruising to a 2-0 victory against the division's second-placed side is sensational.

A win against Leicester on Saturday and Pompey can all but consider themselves a second-tier side next season once again.

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