Two Pompey players set for L1’s top XI?
This time next week, it could all be over!
Pompey could have promotion in the bag and the League One title safely secured - if everything goes their way, of course, between Wcombe v Derby tonight and then with their own trip to third-placed Bolton on Saturday.
Marlon Pack might be crowned League One’s player of the season, and ditto John Mousinho, who has been nominated for the third-tier’s manager of the season accolade.
Those announcements will be made next Sunday night at a gala dinner in London. So, this weekend could prove monumental for Pompey.
The division’s team of the year will also be revealed at the EFL bash - and it’s only natural to think the Blues will be well represented there, too, given the season they’ve had.
Indeed, as well as Pack, there’s been some stand-out performers with the star and crescent on their chests this term, with Sean Raggett, Conor Shaughnessy and Abu Kamara springing to mind.
However, a large Pompey contigent might not be the case, if whoscored.com’s ratings for the season are to believed.
It’s their rankings each match day which helps the EFL determine their teams of the week - and according to the trusted provider of player values, there’s others elsewhere who have been performing to a higher standard on a regular basis.
Indeed, if they’re lucky, the Blues will have just two players named in the pretigious team!
So to give you a taste of what might come, here’s who whoscored.com have in their team of the season (4-4-2) to date.
Team: GK Liam Roberts (Barnsley), RB Tennai Watson (Charlton), CH Carl Piergianni (Stevenage), CH Eiran Cashin (Derby), LB Harrison Burrows (Peterborough), RW Kwame Poku (Peterborough), CM Cameron Brannagan (Oxford), CM Marlon
Pack (Pompey), LW
Ephron Mason-Clark (Peterborough), ST Nathaniel Mendez-Laing (Derby), ST Colby Bishop (Pompey,