MATCH facts and stats
Referee: Dermot Gallagher.
Attendance: 20,113.
Goals: Stone 49 mins, Sheringham 57, 87, 89 (pen).
Shots/headers on target: Pompey 8, Wanderers 3.
Corners: Pompey 0, Wanderers 4.
Fouls: Pompey 10, Wanderers 14.
Offsides: Pompey 9, Wanderers 2.
Bookings: Pompey - Zivkovic 73 mins, Quashie 84 mins; Wanderers - Laville 13 mins, Davies 39 mins, Charlton 76 mins, Stelios 79 mins.
Man of the Match
TEDDY SHERINGHAM
PATRIK Berger was the man who helped Pompey step up a gear but there was no denying Sheringham the glory, who captained the Premiership's new boys to the lofty heights with a hat-trick.
Magic Moment
HARDLY magical but encouraging. When the teams walked off at the end of the first half, Wanderers had done half the job they set out to do. They even had a case for claiming they had had the best of the first period.
Moan of the Match
LOSING 4-0 at Manchester United was rough justice but throwing in the towel and collapsing so embarrassingly - the manager's words - was alarming to say the least.
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