Worthington made just one change to the side that beat Barnsley 2-1 last weekend, with athletic midfielder Darel Russell replacing striker Marc Libbra, meaning Norwich matched Pompey's 4-5-1 formation. The game started at a furious pace that never relented with both sides creating chances and hungry for the three points.
It was the away side that took the lead when the lively Darel Russell crossed from the left into the path of Iwan Roberts who hit it on the volley from the edge of the six yard box to put City 1-0 up with 16 minutes gone.
Upo the other end, Pompey were creating more than their fare share of chances. On 20 minutes Green made an instinctive close-range block from Lee Bradbury, and then three minutes later Pompey equalised through Paul Harper, his left-foot shot from 20 yards out curling out of Rob Green's reach into the bottom corner of the goal.
Pompey could have made it 2-1 on the half-hour mark but Lee Bradbury's shot went straight across the face of goal with no-one there to tap it in.
A few minutes later the ball was up the other end, the Japenese keeper Kawaguchi nicking the ball off Roberts after Russell had crossed it into the box.
Pompey almost went ahead on 44 minutes, when Jason Crowe made a brilliant run, going past countless Norwich players, before Malky Mackay intercepted to make sure the score remained 1-1 at half-time.
The second half kicked off in lively fashion with Norwich shooting towards their fans who had made the long treck from Norfolk. Only 4 minutes into the second half Darel Russell could have put Norwich 2-1 up but he agonisingly hit the post.
On 52 minutes Fleming blocked a good run by Bradbury, and the Pompey players' frustration showed when Quashie reacted angrily to Russell's challenge on him and got himself booked.
Pompey than had a good spell of pressure, Green saving twice - first from Bradbury's header, and then diving down to tip Harper's cross around his left-hand post. A minute later Darel Russell was on hand to help out defensively, heading Pompey's top-scorer Peter Crouch's effort off the line.Russell had another great chance in the 70th minute, he neatly collected McVeigh's pass, flicked it up three times and hit it on the half-turn, but his volley just went over the bar.
Three minutes later and Norwich were on the back foot again, Rob Green denying Quashie in fantastic fashion, pushing his effort just past his left-hand post.
With fifteen minutes to go Norwich tried to make a go of it, with Notman replacing Rivers on the right wing.
On 82 minutes Pompey nearly scored the winner when Nigel Quashie hit the outside of Green's post.
However, threee minutes later and it was Norwich fans celebrating when a great cross from Darel Russell resulted in Carl Tyler, leaping up with Iwan Roberts, heading past his own keeper into the top corner.
Two minutes into stoppage time Rob Green saved Norwich two points when he made another fantastic reaction save, securing his place as Man Of The Match, and making sure his team went back up to third in the table.
