Coloccini volleys wildly over the bar and that should be full-time

Coloccini hauls down Hreidarsson for a free-kick that's cleared. Pompey are the only side who look like scoring as three minutes of stoppage time is signalled

Belhadj shoots wide with time running out for a goal now

Pompey have improved as the game has wore on and are enjoying more possession now

Portmsouth break at speed and eventually Pennant's teasing cross is headed behind by Coloccini. From the corner Richard Hughes' looping header hits the post - the closest we have come to a goal all evening

Crouch then wastes arguably Pompey's best chance of the night shooting straight at Harper from a decent position

Gutierrez plays a fine ball for Martins but Distin does really well to get back and clear the danger just when it looked like the Newcastle forward was about to score

Carroll leaps well at the back post but his header drifts over the bar

Belhadj runs at the Newcastle defence and then forces Harper into action turning his well-struck effort over the bar

Guthrie's vicious drive is well blocked - time beginning to run out for Newcastle tonight

Jonas Gutierrez appears to be ready to come on for Newcastle now

Martins shoots from some way out but it's comfortable for James

Owen gets his first sight on goal of the night after Viduka manages to hook the ball to him but the normally-reliable striker can only weakly shoot at James

James spills a cross and Viduka almost seizes on the ball but the England keeper manages to touch it away

Hayden Mullins then drags a shot wide from the right-hand edge of the box - better from Pompey now

Davis cracks a shot goalwards but it's never troubling Harper and it travels high and wide

James has to come out to claim the ball over the top with Martins closing in

Again it's Newcastle with more of the possession but still they wait for the breakthrough

Crouch twists past Coloccini and might have caught the Portsmouth striker as he goes down in the box. Crouch wants a penalty but Mike Riley says no

Distin has to hack Beye's cross in from the right out of play

Owen's nice back-heel finds Viduka but he shoots straight at the advancing James. The kind of start the home side needed though

Martins blasts the ball over the bar from inside the box wasting the clearest opportunity of the night so far with half time approaching

Sylvain Distin lazily puts the ball out of play as Newcastle look to finish the half brightly

From the resulting corner, Viduka rises well but his header goes over. Finally Newcastle are asking questions of the Pompey defence

Martins wins a corner down the right for Newcastle - Guthrie's ball in evades everyone but Duff collects and forces James to make his first save of the night palming the ball behind

Smith goes down the other end and crashes an effort a few yards over the bar. The game belatedly coming to life in the final third

Sean Davis curls an effort on goal that Steve Harper turns over the bar

Butt goes down now after seemingly turning his ankle and will need treatment off the pitch

Viduka almost gets on the end of Butt's attempted shot but Johnson does well to put it behind for a corner

Owen lays the ball off to Smith, who fires a strike goalwards that appears to strike Hreidarsson's arm but it came at him very quick

Jose Sanchez Enrique pulls up trying to break down the left and will need treatment. It looks like he's pulled his hamstring and will have to go off

Still not a chance of note to report at St James'. Plenty of huff and puff from Newcastle but no end product so far

Peter Crouch hasn't really had a kick so far but finally gets involved and wins a corner for Pompey but nothing comes of it

They work the free-kick short and Johnson's eventual shot is cleared by Coloccini

Newcastle have been the better side so far but they look nervous as David Nugent is fouled by Fabricio Coloccini and Pompey have a free-kick in a dangerous central position

Damien Duff's ball in from the left almost makes its way to Nicky Butt but Sol Campbell gets there first and clears

Martins tries to get past Glen Johnson on the left but the Portsmouth defender does well

The home side have had the majority of the possession but they haven't troubled James so far as Sebastien Bassong's pass is overhit and easy to defend

No real pattern to the game so far with neither side able to keep hold of the ball for long

Habib Beye's cross from the right is claimed by James as Newcastle look to make the fast start they desperately need

A long ball down field is shepherded behind for a Pompey goal-kick by David James

Hermann Hreidarsson is adjudged to have controlled the ball with his hand and Newcastle win an early free-kick