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Match Report
Portsmouth v Charlton 04 October 2003
BARTLETT's LATE BLOW FOR POMPEY
Portsmouth 1-2 Charlton
Shaun Bartlett headed home a last minute winner as Charlton mugged Portsmouth in a bruising encounter at Fratton Park.
Jon Fortune had stabbed home a close-range 77th minute equaliser as Charlton, inspired by substitute Paolo Di Canio, finally clambered off the ropes.
Teddy Sheringham had notched his sixth goal in eight Premiership appearances to give Portsmouth a 34th minute lead, but the visitors, under the cosh for over an hour, dug deep before landing their stunning late one-two.
Pompey knocked the ball around confidently at the start and Charlton's Dean Kiely was soon called into action, first thwarting the impressive Yakubu Aiyegbeni before he acrobatically tipped over Sheringham's rasping drive after Berger's neat lay off.
Portsmouth kept up the pressure and Sheringham's shrewd pass put Yakubu in again but the Nigerian clipped his shot across the face of goal.
Alexei Smertin limped off to make way for Tim Sherwood, but the visitors were still on the back foot, and the opener duly arrived as Sheringham's header from Sherwood's corner clearly crossed the line before Parker's desperate clearance.
Immmediately, Matt Holland was inches away from Graham Stuart's flighted cross in Charlton's first concerted attack, and Parker saw his 30-yard effort drift over as they finally broke free from their defensive shackles.
Kiely denied Sheringham at the start of the second period, before Lisbie tumbled in the box under Dejan Stefanovic's challenge.
Di Canio was thrown into the fray just after the hour, but it was from a scramble in the box that Fortune fired in the equaliser from six yards.
Lisbie then headed straight at Hislop from Di Canio's pinpoint cross, as Charlton suddenly sensed an unlikely winner, but Portsmouth seemed to have weathered the late flurry.
But Di Canio's 90th minute corner found Bartlett rising highest at the far post, and Alan Curbishley's men had two consecutive league wins for the first time in 17 outings.
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