Southampton vs Portsmouth
Who won: Southampton 2-1
Southampton beat Portsmouth 2-1 on Saturday, January 29, 2005 at St. Mary's Stadium. Goals for Southampton: Matt Oakley (54') and Peter Crouch (90' pen). Goals for Portsmouth: Yakubu Ayegbeni (57' pen).
Play by play
Former Pompey striker Crouch scored the winner for his former Pompey manager. The Portsmouth fans will be well and truly gutted.
A dull first-half was eclipsed by an excellent second-half. Three goals, a sending off and a last minute winner.
It's all over. Southampton are into the next round of the FA Cup thanks to a dubious penalty, although you could argue Pompey's was also controversial.
- 90'
Surley that is the winning goal. De Zeeuw gets booked for a foul as he attempts to drag his team back into the match...but it's all too late. The final whistle blows.
- 90'
...Crouch has had to wait a long time to take this, but he steps up to stroke the ball into the bottom right-hand corner. GOAL!
- 90'
After it has all died down Crouch steps up to take the spot-kick.....
- 90'
After a short conference between the officials the penalty is given. Pompey are furious and a yellow card is brandished towards a melee of blue shirts.
- 89'
Prutton crosses as he falls over in the box. Taylor sticks out an arm to block the ball....the ref hasn't spotted it but the linesman is flagging for a penalty.
- 88'
Fuller takes a tumble outside the box. He was looking for a freekick in a dangerous area but the ref waves away his claim.
- 87'
Berger starts another attack but his pass is poor and Lundekvam snuffs out the danger. Southampton slow the game down.
- 86'
Pompey haven't given up as yet, they can sense a famous victory at St Mary's.
- 85'
Berger returns the favour for Fuller, who tries to blast the ball home from close-range and skies his shot over the bar - a terrible miss. All he needed to do was poke it towards goal.
- 84'
Fuller probes the right and Lundekvam can only block it out as far as Berger. The Pompey midfielder sets himself for the shot and Lundekvam recovers to block his effort.
- 83'
Fuller has only just come on but has already had an impact with two runs at the defence. He just needs more support.
- 82'
Pompey are going to make a change. Yakubu leaves the pitch to a chorus of boos and Fuller comes on.
- 81'
Jones gets booked for bravado. His response is to chest the ball down in the box and fire a low shot just wide of Chalkias' left-hand post.
- 80'
Primus catches Svensson a little late but the ref plays the advantage. Crouch smacks a shot against De Zeeuw and Southampton want a penalty for handball.....they don't get it.
- 76'
Jakobsson, on for Oakley, passes it left. Higginbotham patiently probes that flank until he loses possession and gives away a foul.
- 74'
Southampton are really going for it now against the reduced ranks of Pompey.
- 73'
Harry makes another change and will be hoping that Jakobsson can have the same effect as Jones.
- 72'
Jones gets on with the game and draws another save from Chalkias. The substitute has looked very lively since he came on.
- 71'
...Kamara was also booked during the post-penalty award rumble and so he's off. Pompey are down to ten men.
- 70'
Kamara stumbles in midfield and grabs the ball expecting a freekick. The ref doesn't agree and produces a yellow card for handball....
- 69'
Crouch shows he is good on the deck, as well as in the air, with a little shimmy to get past Stefanovic and then shoots high and wide.
- 67'
Berger fires the ball into Yakubu, who holds off Telfer in the area and shoots low to the far corner. Niemi, at full stretch, palms the ball past his post