Source: Telegraph
Portsmouth 2 Burnley 0: match report
Portsmouth moved off the foot of the Premier League table, for the moment at least, with a convincing win over Burnley. Goals from Herman Hreidarsson and Aruna Dindane in the second half gave them their first win in five games, and only their third of the season. [LNB]Having finally received their November paycheques, Portsmouth began with vigour and created the better chances. The best of them came after just ten minutes, and it fell to an unmarked Dindane six yards out. The Ivorian made a meek, absent-minded attempt to control the ball, convinced he was offside. [LNB] Related ArticlesPremier League tablePremier League fixturesSport on televisionBut the flag stayed down; the long-suffering Fratton Park crowd howled their derision. [LNB]Though Burnley enjoyed their moments, Portsmouth were building up a formidable head of steam, and were rewarded when Phil Dowd awarded them a penalty on the half-hour mark. Hreidarsson chested the ball down in the area and crumpled as Wade Elliott raised a foot. Or, as replays proved, a moment before Elliott raised a foot. There was virtually no contact between the two; Burnley were incandescent, Dowd unmoved. [LNB]Dindane stepped up: a touch tentatively, it seemed, and so it proved when his lifeless spot-kick was parried by Brian Jensen, who then foiled Dindane's follow-up header. Justice, so elusive for Portsmouth this season, had paid Burnley a visit. [LNB]It was beyond them to capitalise, though, and as Portsmouth pressed further in the second half, Burnley began to look like a team that had taken just one point from seven away games this season. Shortly after the hour Kevin-Prince Boateng, who had a sparkling game in midfield, played it through for substitute Kanu, who nudged it on for the overlapping Hreidarsson. The left-back's low shot from an angle was too good for Jensen. [LNB]Portsmouth's day improved further seven minutes from time, when a Jamie O'Hara free-kick found its way on to the head of Dindane, who nodded in powerfully past Jensen. Redemption for Dindane; release, so long in coming, for Portsmouth. The climb to safety begins here. [LNB]
