摘要：
近期在欧洲赛场春风得意的阿森纳队在12日的一场英超比赛中，客场同主场战绩第二差的朴茨茅斯队1：1打成平局，只能遗憾地收获1分。在“枪手”本赛季截至目前所参加的17场客场比赛中，他们仅仅从理论上的51分中获得了可怜的16分，这仅比他们本场比赛的对手朴茨茅斯队的客场进球多2个。虽然平局的结果对于面临保级任务的朴茨茅斯队来说也比较遗憾，但这宝贵的1分至少让他们还保留着下赛季继续留在英超的希望。
Sol Campbell will have tests today on a suspected broken nose. The Arsenal centre-half suffered a buffeting at the hands of Portsmouth's forwards at Fratton Park that may jeopardise his hopes of competing for a place in England's World Cup squad.
近期在欧洲赛场春风得意的阿森纳队在12日的一场英超比赛中，客场同主场战绩第二差的朴茨茅斯队1：1打成平局，只能遗憾地收获1分。在“枪手”本赛季截至目前所参加的17场客场比赛中，他们仅仅从理论上的51分中获得了可怜的16分，这仅比他们本场比赛的对手朴茨茅斯队的客场进球多2个。虽然平局的结果对于面临保级任务的朴茨茅斯队来说也比较遗憾，但这宝贵的1分至少让他们还保留着下赛季继续留在英超的希望。
据英国《卫报》4月13日报道，由于本场比赛未能全取3分，目前积54分的阿森纳队还落后排名第4的热刺队4分。要想挤掉热刺获得下赛季欧洲冠军联赛参赛资格，阿森纳队除了要打好联赛剩下的比赛之外，还要寄希望于热刺输球。在9天之后举行的英超联赛第36轮阿森纳主场同热刺队的比赛中，“枪手”必须全取3分，否则他们将连理论上的希望也将失去。
同本场比赛平局一样让阿森纳队主教练苦闷的是，刚刚伤愈复出的中后卫坎贝尔本场比赛再次遭到暗算以至“头破血流”。这位31岁的老将先是在下半场刚开场40秒就遭对手前锋姆瓦鲁瓦里肘击，致眼睑破裂。随后又在一次争抢中和朴茨茅斯前锋托多罗夫相撞，导致鼻骨受伤，血流不止。目前，坎贝尔伤势如何还要等到13日做进一步检查之后才能确定，目前不能排除鼻骨骨折的可能。果真如此的话，这次打击对于希望参加世界杯的坎贝尔来说很可能将是致命的。
对于坎贝尔的再次受伤，阿森纳队主教练温格也表示非常无奈。“我现在不知道他的伤势如何，所以也不知道他究竟能不能参加本周六主场同西布罗姆维奇队的比赛。”温格在赛后接受采访时表示：“我认为他在上半场从体能上看表现很好，但下半场可能受伤病困扰，动作受到了一些限制。但不管怎样，他已经用行动向英格兰队主教练埃里克森表明，他完全可以胜任世界杯比赛任务，剩下的就要由埃里克森自己来决定了。至于周六的比赛，坎贝尔的伤病对我们影响不大，因为我们总是每两场比赛就更换一个阵容。”
对于本场比赛阿森纳队的表现，温格作了如下描述：“我们尽了最大的努力，但收效甚微。”他说：“只拿到了1分非常令人失望，我们本来可以赢5个球的。但我们应该积极面对这一切。希望在周六的联赛中我们能获胜，如果那样的话，或许主动权又会回到我们手中。”
对于苦苦保级的朴茨茅斯队来说，全取3分同样是他们梦寐以求的，但相对于阿森纳队来说，1分也让他们感到很满意了。这场平局同时也意味着他们已经取得了5场不败的佳绩。由于在剩下的联赛中朴茨茅斯队还有3个主场，因此他们很有可能在最后阶段发力，完成保级任务。对于本场比赛，朴茨茅斯队主教练雷德克纳普认为球员们表现很好。他说：“在上周同布莱克本队的比赛中，我们同样打得非常好，但也只取得了1分，但不要忘了这两轮我们的对手都是目前联赛前6名的球队。”
展望周六同米德尔斯堡队的比赛，雷德克纳普称其为一场“大战”，并认为本队只要在随后的几个主场比赛中拿分，那么保级就大有希望。雷德克纳普同时表示，在本场比赛中为本队扳平比分的前锋鲁阿鲁阿，虽然脚踝受伤，但应该不会影响到周六的比赛。
（国际在线独家资讯 张海山）
Sol Campbell will have tests today on a suspected broken nose. The Arsenal centre-half suffered a buffeting at the hands of Portsmouth's forwards at Fratton Park that may jeopardise his hopes of competing for a place in England's World Cup squad.
First Campbell received an elbow to the eye from Benjani Mwaruwari 40 seconds after the interval, then Svetoslav Todorov backed into him, causing blood to stream from his nose.
"He had a cut on his eyelid, he has a bloody nose," said Arsenal's manager Arsène Wenger.
"I don't know if it is broken, we have to check that."
The England coach Sven-Goran Eriksson has indicated that he will demand players prove their fitness before selecting the final 23 to travel to Germany for this summer's tournament and time is running out for the luckless Campbell. Having returned after a series of ankle and toe injuries, and with the spotlight having been turned on his mental state after his retreat from the 3-2 defeat by West Ham on February 1, this had been Campbell's return to Arsenal's first team.
Wenger was unsure whether Campbell would be passed fit for Saturday's match against West Bromwich at Highbury but believed he had done enough in an assured performance to demonstrate his suitability for Eriksson.
"I don't know if he will be available on Saturday, anyway we're changing the team every two games," said Wenger. "I feel he played very well physically in the first half. In the second I think he was handicapped a bit by his injury. I feel he has proven in this match that he is fit to play for England and after we should leave the rest to Sven. But I believe he will be available for England."
Arsenal were left with a metaphorical bloody nose after a failure to convert a string of presentable opportunities, with Emmanuel Adebayor the most culpable. After this match the gap to Tottenham is four points and the game in hand has been squandered.
"We had the maximum effort and got a minimal result," said Wenger. "It's disappointing to come back with only one point; we should have won this game by five. We have to keep going and be positive. It's a point, a disappointing point. We want to make the maximum out of our games. Let's win on Saturday and maybe it will be in our hands again."
Portsmouth, too, needed a win but will be far more content with a single point than the visitors. It extends their unbeaten run to five matches and, level on points with 17th-placed Birmingham, they have three home matches remaining to convert a good position for survival as the Premiership season enters its final straight. "It was a great performance in the end, a terrific performance," said their manager Harry Redknapp. "It's a great point. We played fantastically on Saturday against Blackburn and didn't get the three points but they're both top-six teams.
"We're playing well. The results are starting to come and the confidence is starting to come at the right time. We've got three massive home games and, if we can get points, we've got a good chance.
"Saturday's a big, big game against Middlesbrough and they've got an FA Cup semi-final the week after."
Redknapp believes Lomana LuaLua, who indulged in a somersaulting celebration after scoring the headed goal that cancelled out Thierry Henry's first-half opener, will be fit despite injuring his ankle.
"He damaged his ankle jumping up to head the ball. Yet he still did the treble somersault with pike, and then realised he had a bad ankle. I don't mind him doing that if he's scoring." | 
