Southampton manager Nigel Adkins feeling the heat following derby day draw with Portsmouth We have a big match against Crystal Palace on Monday where we will be backed by 6,000 fans. We are top of the league with six games to go and if we win them then we are up. In stark contrast to Adkins, Michael Appleton, the Portsmouth manager, was positively serene until the 94th minute when David Norris struck a volley into the bottom left-hand corner from 20 yards. That was after Sharp's opener after 27 minutes, Chris Maguire's stunning equaliser, nine minutes later and Sharp's second, with two minutes to go. Appleton, a former trainee with Manchester United, sprinted up the touchline, bringing back memories of Jose Mourinho's famous celebrations when Porto knocked Manchester United out of the Champions League, in 2004. He admitted the importance of the goal against Southampton, who are 21 miles away, despite being six points off 21st placed Bristol City, who beat Nottingham Forest 1-0 on Saturday night with five matches to play, got the better of him. Appleton said: "The lads took the Mick out of me because they said I was celebrating like Mourinho. A bit of emotion got the better of me. At the end of the game it felt like a win. I would have been disappointed if we had come away with nothing but we scored two fabulous goals. We have got five games left and if it goes down to the last game then so be it. We will do everything we can to get the points to keep us up. Jason Pearce, the Portsmouth captain, knows what the match meant to Appleton and the 31,743 supporters shoe-horned into this stadium, as he lives just five miles from St Mary's. "I do not think Southampton are an outstanding team, everyone can beat everyone," he said. The top teams in this league have had consistency and we have not had that. We need that consistency for the last five games if we want to stay up.