Adrian Segecic initiation and Josh Murphy update – Things you may have missed vs Oxford
Portsmouth started their Championship season with a bang after winning 1-0 at Oxford.
Adrian Segecic scored the winner on his league debut in a first half where Pompey were undoubtedly the better team.
Oxford applied some late pressure, but Portsmouth held firm to claim a morale-boosting victory on the road.
Around 1,500 Blues supporters to the Kassam Stadium, and they’ll be thrilled at the manner of the victory.
Here, Pompey News rounds up three talking points you might have missed from a successful away day for the Blues.
Adrian Segecic leads three first pump celebrations at full time
It has become somewhat of a tradition at full-time for Portsmouth players to salute the fans with three fist-pumps after they win.
It’s a fun ritual which players often complete one at a time while the fans acknowledge them with three cheers.
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After Segecic’s fantastic debut, he was ushered in front of the Portsmouth fans to complete the celebration first.
The Australian duly obliged, and this will be surely be a game that lives long in his memory.
Segecic scored goals for fun in the Australian A-League and had looked sharp in pre-season, but that might not have necessarily translated to performance like this in the Championship.
It now looks more certain that Pompey might have a real star on their hands.
Pompey fans leave stadium chanting ‘we’re going to win the league’
Earlier in the week, John Mousinho had insisted that Portsmouth’s goal was to get to 50 points as quickly as possible, and only then focus on achieving more.
Many Pompey fans travelling to Oxford decided to ignore that conservative goal, as loud chants of ‘We’re going to win the league’ were heard after the full-time whistle.
Portsmouth sat fourth in the Championship table after all the 15:00 kick-offs had finished.
Mousinho lifts the lid on Josh Murphy absence
Josh Murphy was mysteriously absent from the squad for this game.
There had been no prior news about an injury, leading fans to speculate the worst about why he might not be playing.
In his post-match interview, Mousinho revealed that Murphy was struggling with a slight hamstring problem suffered in the friendly against PEC Zwolle.
The Pompey boss predicted that the winger would be back on the pitch within a week or two.
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