Portsmouth boss Harry Redknapp is excited about welcoming Ghana midfielder Sulley Muntari back from the African Nations Cup.

"It's especially good to have Muntari back. He had a terrific African Cup campaign and all four of them are big players for us," Redknapp said.

"But I can hardly wait to see Muntari linking up with our other new lad Lassana Diarra in midfield. Diarra, as I've always said is going to be a top, top class talent.

"In fact he already is. And getting him from Arsenal has proved a dream signing for us.

"We've proved that we are difficult to beat away from home. We were fortunate last week at Bolton. We got outplayed and we nicked the result, but we had seven away wins before that one where we weren't lucky.

"I feel we can give anybody a game. We played all of the big four clubs and none of them managed to beat us. So if we keep being lucky in the draw who knows what can happen."