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Windass Earns Late Point
Saturday 22 Nov 2008Dean Windass came off the bench to score his first Premier League goal for Hull City to salvage Phil Brown's men a last-gasp point at Fratton Park
Glen Johnson's stunning 30-yard strike looked to have earned Tony Adams his second win as Portsmouth manager before Windass bundled home one minute from time.
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Portsmouth could have taken the lead inside the first two minutes when Papa Bouba Diop headed against the underside of the crossbar from Johnson's cross.
Pompey's players surrounded referee Stuart Atwell claiming the ball had crossed the line but linesman Martin Yerby kept his flag down and television replays later showed the officials were correct.
There was no let off for Hull when Peter Crouch opened the scoring 12 minutes later.
Johnson's left-foot shot was only cleared to Younes Kaboul, who delivered a pin-point cross to the head of Crouch and the lanky England striker nodded home from two yards out.
Diop then provided a contender for miss of the season when he sliced wide from four yards with only Boaz Myhill to beat after Crouch had headed John Utaka's cross into the midfielder's feet.
Hull came agonisingly close to making it 1-1 moments before half-time when former Pompey trialist Geovanni's stunning 25-yard curler crashed against the crossbar.
The Tigers did not have to wait long for their equaliser, which came nine minutes after the interval courtesy of Michael Turner's third goal of the season.
Dean Marney's in-swinging left-wing corner was flicked on by Kamil Zayatte and Turner rose unchallenged to head past home goalkeeper David James at the back post.
Portsmouth were back in front in spectacular fashion nine minutes later.
Sean Davis' corner was cleared as far as Johnson, who controlled the ball beautifully on his chest before firing past Myhill with a bullet shot from his weaker left foot.
Utaka then blazed over from three yards and the Nigerian was made to pay when Turner's long-range shot deflected off Noe Pamarot for Windass to nod the ball past a helpless James.
After the draw Portsmouth boss Tony Adams said: "At the moment we're having problems locking up and winning games. But you've got to give credit to Hull because they never give you a moment's peace.
"It's important that you don't lose but we didn't finish them off when we had enough chances to bury them.
"We didn't get the two-goal cushion we need at home at the moment. At times we've got to learn how to win football games and keep the ball.
"We deserved to win the game to be honest but it's three games undefeated and I'm delighted. We're on a little bit of a run and we'll keep going.
"I'm delighted by my players' mentality. They get driven on by the crowd and as a football player you've got to be big enough to say I can't score so let's defend and hold on for the win."
Hull City's assistant manager Brian Horton said: "We felt we could have won it because we had some clear-cut chances, although they did as well.
"It was quite an open game but come back twice from being down was excellent. They never know when they're beaten.
"They were well on top and deserved to go in front. Then we changed our shape, although we've been causing teams problems with it, and I think we finished the first half with the better team.
"We made a few changes along the way and chased the game but overall it was a good point in the end.
"We're playing some open games, and what a good game to watch again today. It's good but we've got to be tighter than that in the Premier League."
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