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John Mousinho Pompey v Peterborough verdict
The News, Portsmouth
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04/09/2023
Pompey boss John Mousinho gives his reaction to his side's 3-1 EFL League One win over Peterborough United.
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John, Pompey win 3-1 against Peter, an excellent performance.
00:07
Yeah, that's the most important thing to the result, first and foremost, and the performance
00:11
I thought was outstanding, certainly for 70 minutes after a bit of an indifferent start.
00:16
I didn't think we were terrible, but they caught us on the break and scored a decent
00:20
enough goal, not necessarily against the run of play, but I thought we were well in the
00:24
game and hadn't taken advantage of some good opportunities that we had.
00:28
And the reaction after that was excellent. I think from then on we just looked like the
00:32
better side throughout, particularly in the second half, we were excellent in the second
00:36
half. A couple of players looked like they got their second wind and it was relentless,
00:39
I thought, kicking into the flattened end. I thought we thoroughly deserved it. I didn't
00:45
think we looked threatened at all until we went down to 10 men, so performance-wise really,
00:48
really happy.
00:49
Something about the second half, it must have been one of the best second halves you've
00:51
had, or one of the best halves you've had this season, really.
00:54
I think so, yes. You look at a couple of the, in my short time here, a couple of the performances
00:59
that we've put in at home especially, the Bolton one stands out, this one certainly
01:03
stands out as well. Both three ones, I did actually feel relatively calm in the second
01:08
half, which was quite rare for me, probably until we went down to 10 men and they had
01:12
11 minutes on the back end of the game. But I just felt we were in control and I didn't
01:17
think that we were particularly threatened going in behind. And that was all with trying
01:23
to be expansive in terms of the way we were playing as well. So, yes, really happy with
01:27
that. It's difficult to really assess properly now because of the emotion of the game and
01:33
the view that I have there. But once we settle down with the coaching staff over the next
01:36
couple of days, it will be really easy to pick apart everything from the game.
01:41
3-1 when it was 11 v 11, they were clinging on as well, weren't they? You could have got
01:44
a few more.
01:45
That's what I thought. That was probably the only slight, it's not a negative of the
01:49
afternoon, the only slight part that we can keep improving upon is putting those games
01:53
to bed. I thought we had chance after chance. A few goalmouth scrambles, the goalkeeper
01:57
made a couple of great saves, particularly the one I thought was an outstanding save
02:01
near side on the near post to Abu's shot. We hit the bar, I think it was a bit of a
02:06
loopy lucky header, but we hit the bar. A load of set pieces, which we scored from one
02:11
set piece, so great. I thought the delivery on a couple of the others just needs to be
02:15
better because we've got really good routines, we've got a really attacking threat in the
02:18
box as I'm sure you saw there. Once we nail that down and be a bit more ruthless, I think
02:24
we'll be fine.
02:25
Following a conservative goal of straws in the league, how needed was that today?
02:29
It's been no secret, we speak about this in the press, we speak about it after games.
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We want to try and score more goals. One of the things that you and I spoke about this
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week was the fact that we didn't necessarily feel that we weren't scoring because of how
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defensive we'd been. We didn't feel we were stuck in a defensive mode, we just needed
02:44
a bit more creativity going forward and a bit more quality in some of those moments.
02:50
We got that today, so when we get that bit of quality from Marlon Pack on the cross for
02:55
the first goal, maybe a slight slice of luck on the second because I think it went through
02:59
a couple of bodies and then Abu put it in the back of the net. Apart from that, I think
03:03
the build-up to the third goal when we recycled it, there was some real quality on display
03:08
there. The little dink up to the back post, a little one-two Marlon with Abu and flashed
03:12
across bodies in the box, Regan pulled at the back post. That has obviously been our
03:17
focus and we want to keep scoring more goals.
03:20
I read that Marlon Pack involved in all three goals.
03:23
Yes, and if you look at him and think that's not the performance of a 32-year-old. He looked
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energetic and we know he is. He looked energetic, he ran the game. It's a pleasure to have because
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of the fact that he is almost a coach on the pitch for us. He really is a coach on the
03:41
pitch and he does a lot with us at the training ground. He is a really good sounding board
03:47
for us. Not just him, a couple of the other senior pros as well. A real pleasure and privilege.
03:52
One of the reasons he was made club captain and started every game and played almost every
03:56
minute of every game. I thought today was his best performance of the season.
03:59
For a holding midfielder to be involved in three goals as well, you don't expect that?
04:03
No, he's got that quality and one of the things we were trying to do today was make sure that
04:06
even though we played Marlon and Joe close together as sixes, they still have the ability
04:11
to release if Peterford don't leave two men up. We want to get them involved, especially
04:16
at the edge of the box. Marlon's got that goal scoring ability. We saw at the back end
04:20
of last season, I think he finished with five or six goals last year. One of our top scorers
04:26
I think in behind that chasing pack of Colby. He's got a huge amount of quality with assists,
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he can score goals and he can run games. He's a terrific player and leader to have.
04:37
Just because he sits deeper, doesn't mean you don't expect him to contribute with goals
04:41
and assists and attacking play?
04:42
No, we're not necessarily looking to make those lung-bursting runs into the box but
04:46
he can certainly lock off the box on the second phase and be on the edge of it. One that really
04:51
springs to mind is my first game here when we played Exeter. The play's developed really
04:55
quickly down the right, we've crossed it, the loopy header back up to the edge of the
04:58
box and that's where we want our central midfielders. We don't want them sitting on the toes of
05:01
the centre-backs. We can always get a full-back to come in and shove one of the midfielders
05:06
up for lack of having a better term for that. We do want them to get involved.
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