Cotterill: Pompey must spend to go up

Portsmouth manager Steve Cotterill admitted he needs reinforcements if his side are to sustain a promotion bid after their 2-1 home win over Nottingham Forest. Liam Lawrence scored the second-half winner after Forest's Paul Anderson had equalised Ibrahima Sonko's header in the opening period. The win was Pompey's fourth in a row, which extends their unbeaten run to seven games, a run that has lifted them to 10th place in the npower Championship and just one point off the play-off places. Cotterill said: "If we want to be up and around there, we can't run with the squad we've got. "We had a bench with Richard Hughes, who hasn't trained all week. We had Hermann Hreidarsson who hadn't played for six months. He went on and made a cameo at the end. We need fit boys who can come on and change a game. "Look at their substitutes. It's not just (Robert) Earnshaw, they had (Dexter) Blackstock too. You'd be in your element if you had a bench like they had. I don't mean that to put our players down. But they had top Championship players on their bench."

Source: PA