Blues boss Kieran McKenna, whose side returned to the top of the Championship table via Saturday’s 1-0 win at Blackburn, says the meeting with Southampton, who visit Portman Road for Easter Monday’s live Sky game, was one of the matches he looked for at the start of the season (KO 5.30pm).
Town midfielder Paul Anderson agrees there is room for improvement in his own form this season, his first at Portman Road following a swap deal that took Jay Emmanuel-Thomas in the opposite direction to Bristol City.
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Blues boss Paul Jewell was delighted with his side’s third successive victory, Town leaving Fratton Park with a 1-0 victory over Portsmouth. Pompey manager Michael Appleton admitted his team were second best but believed his side had scored a second-half equaliser when Jay Emmanuel-Thomas’s knee diverted Greg Halford’s long throw into the Blues’ net.