Portsmouth Football Club News

Jermain Defoe revealed how his friend Anton Ferdinand tried to make him miss his match-winning penalty at the Stadium of Light. The striker was handed the opportunity to win the match for Pompey at Sunderland when El-Hadji Diouf fouled Glen Johnson in injury-time. But first he had to block out some words from Sunderland defender and former West Ham team-mate Ferdinand. “Anton came up to me and said I was going to miss,” said Defoe. “He gave me a little bit of banter. “But I didn’t listen. You’ve got to be confident when you take a penalty - if you think you might miss, you probably will. “As I stepped up to take the penalty I thought about the last one I had, against Spurs, which I scored. So I was confident.” Defoe did not disappoint, tucking his seventh goal of the season past Sunderland keeper Marton Fulop. It completed a fine comeback by Pompey, who had fallen behind to Djibril Cisse’s fourth-minute opener before Nadir Belhadj, with his first goal for the club, equalised after the break. The victory was the first for the Blues under new boss Tony Adams – the significance of which was not lost on Defoe. He said: “Sunderland were maybe the better team in the first half. They’re a strong side with a strong manager in Roy Keane. “But in the second half we dominated and deserved the three points. We stuck together. “We had a great week in training, working on the shape and movement of the team. The things Tony Adams has done in training have been really good. “There have been massive changes at the club and I’m really pleased for Tony that we won.”

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