Jackett: We want big support at Wembley

Portsmouth manager Kenny Jackett is hoping for big support at the Checkatrade Trophy final at Wembley.

Pompey comfortably beat Bury 3-0 in their semi-final on Tuesday night, and will now face either Sunderland or Bristol Rovers in the final that semi-final is on Tuesday evening.

Jackett said: “I think the latter stages build up in interest.

“We’ve had some tricky away ties, and Bury was one of them, but if we had been at home in this stage of the competition I do think we would have got a good attendance.

“As it gets closer, the interest level builds up, it’s quite natural. In the early rounds it looks a long way away, yesterday was our seventh game this season in this competition.

“Having said that, we are there now, we don’t want to go and make the numbers up, we want to go there and try to win if we can.

“I do hope there will now be more interest among fans, we haven’t been to Wembley for a number of years and I’m sure we will generate a lot of interest.

“Hopefully for our season it can also spur us on and give confidence.”