portsmouth is always a tricky fixture especially away to them.
the penalty was for shirt tugging by arbeloa who had a very poor poor game imho. but the ref should have given the benefit as arbeloa beat kanu to the ball and cleared it. but that's just my opinion.
many others, pennant, sissoko, crouch and benayoun had a very poor game.
carra, agger and voronin were at their regular game. not their best though.
i just don't understand why rafa started with voronin and crouch, our third and fourth strikers in my book. voronin would have been better off partnering torres or kuyt (if available, dunno if he's injured). or else partner crouch with kuyt. it could be one eye on tuesday's away match to porto.
torres should have started and subbed in the second half. it would have been easier for him to make more impact than coming in as a sub when things are quite settled for their defenders.
personally i felt that this isn't a two points dropped match. it's more like we gained a point. portsmouth was all over us from the second half running.
