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Two goals from Adam McGurk secured victory for Portsmouth against National League side Macclesfield Town.

McGurk opened the scoring early on before Pompey keeper Brian Murphy gifted Macclesfield's Kristian Dennis an equaliser soon after.

Portsmouth regained the lead just before half-time when McGurk capitalised from a rebound in the area.

The victory was Pompey's first in the FA Cup since beating Tottenham in a 2010 semi-final at Wembley.

Portsmouth boss Paul Cook told BBC Radio Solent:

"We never played well today. We huffed and puffed. It's everything that I don't like about the game; continually giving the ball away, looking like we had no thought process, and that's what happens sometimes when negativity creeps into a club or a team.

"This season we've had smashing games with Derby and Reading, we're now through in the FA Cup, we're third in the league and I don't understand where some of it comes from. My job is to route it out.

"We weren't at it today - and you've seen in last night's cup tie (Salford v Notts County) what happens when you're not at it - and that's why teams will always continually have what people will call 'cup shocks', but the reality is they're not really shocks and we should expect them."