Pompey boss John Mousinho chats to The News after watching his side clinch at late point at Pride Park
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00:00 John, how do you sum up your emotions after that one?
00:03 Up and down. I was furious when the penalty was given. I thought it was the accumulation of a number of bizarre decisions throughout the afternoon.
00:13 I said, 'Can I understand why the penalty was given?' Maybe, but it just comes off Regan's knee and unless he cuts his arms off then I don't know what he's supposed to do there.
00:24 I'm just trying to defend. To get back into the game after that, I was absolutely thrilled for the lads. Their heads didn't drop.
00:31 They could have used every excuse in the book and come away going, 'Aren't we unlucky, haven't played so well and not coming away from Pye Park with anything.'
00:37 The feeling when we scored was obviously an absolute elation. I think everything's settled down now. It's just slightly rude the fact that we haven't come away with three points.
00:45 To come away with a stiffing test of your credentials here and feel perhaps a little bit like that is interesting.
00:54 If you contrast the two performances over the last four months, when we came in and we played alright, we were hanging on for the 1-1 draw.
01:02 Here I thought in the first half we were the better side without being good enough at certain things that we did.
01:07 We were a bit sloppy in terms of our possession a lot of the time. We created the better chances. In the second half I didn't have too much criticism of the lads whatsoever.
01:15 I thought they were really, really good. We created chances, caught Darby well on the break, were brave on the ball and the only thing that we didn't do was put the ball in the back of the net.
01:23 We gave them a shed load of chances but enough to score and go ahead.
01:29 I'm really, really pleased. The contrast between that and what we saw at the back end of last season, we fully deserve the point, but it was a very, very different game.
01:38 It really, really pleased me because we've come into these places now and we're trying to impose our football on them.
01:43 It feels slightly perverse to say it but it felt fairly comfortable watching that performance in the second half.
01:49 It did. I'm trying to think there were a couple of hairy moments in the first half where we either were slightly too high and they were two really good centre-forwards in Washington and Radcliffe running in behind.
01:58 Once we sorted that we were actually fine.
02:02 Once we sorted that we were fine. I didn't feel that Darby were really threatening in the second half.
02:10 Set pieces there, they were always a threat. I can't remember Will making a save to be honest.
02:15 I'll just have to think back. Again, probably didn't test Wildsmith enough but that's a very, very good side out there who will definitely be up there challenging at the back end of the season.
02:25 So, very, very proud of the lads for how they came through the game.
02:28 Is that a fair criticism? To create more and take one of those chances when it comes your way?
02:33 I think two bits of criticism. We need to start games better. We were a bit sloppy in the first half.
02:37 The only problems Darby created were when we gave the ball away in strange areas, making strange decisions.
02:42 Again, I want to encourage the boys to be progressive on the ball.
02:47 I want to encourage them to play and be brave in certain areas and that's fine.
02:50 I'll never, ever have a go at them for giving the ball away as long as they're doing the right things.
02:54 I think they've just got to sharpen themselves up a bit. I said to them at half-time, the only reason I'm disappointed and angry is because I know they're much better than that.
03:01 I want them to believe in themselves as much as we believe in them as a coaching staff and we believe in them as a football club.
03:06 That's why we brought them to the club.
03:08 The criticism in the second half was we just didn't put the ball in the back of the net.
03:11 Thankfully, we did when the chance came and got the point.
03:16 This was Bielder's toughest assignment of the season. Is it a box tick of your character and credentials?
03:25 I think if you can get half a tick, we'll go with that because we didn't win the game.
03:29 Hopefully, in the grand scheme of things, this will be a good point to come away from Darby and get the point.
03:38 I just felt like it was a good point last season and I think everyone is feeling today that we could have won the game.
03:46 Not until we go and do that to one of the big boys can we really say we were right.
03:52 Kobe Bishop is a Pompey player but a Notts Forest fan so I dare say he enjoyed that moment.
03:56 Yes, I think he thoroughly enjoyed his goal here last year.
03:59 It can't be a more of a game. It's a recurring theme. I don't know what we do about it.
04:03 There are some bizarre things going on, one in particular in the first half that sums up his treatment.
04:09 I'm not entirely sure what he can do a lot of the time.
04:12 Apart from keep going and plugging away, I'm sure that Kobe was absolutely dead on his feet.
04:17 We managed to keep him fairly quiet but Kobe also hasn't trained since Friday.
04:23 You don't normally see Kobe dead on his feet with Kobe so I'm sure that was a tell-tale sign for everyone.
04:28 He was immense again today.
04:29 With a few of the others as well, I can't think of any of the performances across the XI that weren't really strong.
04:39 But pulling that one out because of the circumstances around what's happened this week.
04:43 I'll put another one on for Zach Swanson this afternoon. I thought he was decent for decent periods.
04:47 I thought he was superb.
04:49 Zach is one of those that keep harping on about this to the press and to the players.
04:54 I remember after the Forest Green game, Zach had scored, we'd won the game.
04:59 I sat him down on Thursday and said, "I'm sorry you're not travelling to Leighton-Orion because you're not in the squad."
05:03 That's got to be a really tough thing to take.
05:05 Zach has applied himself really well in training.
05:08 I thought he was excellent last week against Peter, but he's in perfect form and really solid again today.
05:14 We'd spoken at half-time about probably who our best player in the first half was and that was Zach.
05:20 When he's over the other side of the pitch, it's harder to see.
05:24 When Zach went down, we feared the worst and thought, "That's not great."
05:28 He got back on and sold us through. High praise for him.
05:31 He seems okay. Obviously, if he is okay, that's a selection dilemma for you going into Tuesday.
05:36 I think he's fine. He just jarred his knee.
05:38 Hopefully, we'll see what it looks like tomorrow.
05:40 That's what we want. We want those dilemmas.
05:42 We want good players coming back into the fold like Joe Morel and Joe Rafferty to give us tough selection headaches.
05:48 That's what it's all about. We were a bit thin today, to be honest.
05:52 To be fair to the squad, Dave, they've come in and done brilliantly well. That's what we need.
05:57 You never know when it's going to pop up. We've had two weeks of no games and all of a sudden,
06:01 it's probably been the thinnest period for our squad, particularly with those two suspensions as well.
06:06 So, credit to all of the lads that have contributed today.
06:10 Colby Bishop's okay?
06:11 Colby's fine, yeah.
06:12 Christian Sadie?
06:13 Yeah, Christian Sadie picked up a knock on Saturday, possibly Friday. It was Friday, so he hasn't trained all week.
06:20 He obviously travelled with us. We were going to assess him yesterday.
06:24 So, he's close. He should be fine. I think he's running on the pitch down there.
06:28 But we hadn't done anything above 50% with Christian up until yesterday.
06:32 So, what we didn't want to do was – he was never going to be able to start –
06:36 what we didn't want to do was name him on the bench because I 100% would have put him on.
06:40 I would have been very, very tempted to do it.
06:43 And if he had then broken down, it's one of those things where it's short-term pain for a bit of,
06:48 hopefully, success with Christian longer term is what we went for there.
06:52 So, yeah, one of those things that was slightly unfortunate off the back of Christian's performance against Peterborough.
06:58 But we want Christian fit for 45 games if we've missed one. So, he's absolutely fine.
07:04 Just finally, 3,000 Pompey fans go home happy. It was a nice moment for yourself there.
07:08 At the end, they seem content and happy with the direction you're headed.
07:11 Yeah, it's absolutely ridiculous the away support that we get.
07:17 I don't mind singling it out today because obviously we're not at home.
07:22 You all know what I think about the support we get at Fratton.
07:25 Sometimes I do flick on social media and I see the fans in their cars in the dark at five in the morning.
07:32 I know what it means as a football fan and I'm just very, very pleased we could give them that moment.
07:37 I suspect that the fans would give us that reception even had we not got back into the game because they saw the performance for the other 94 of those minutes.
07:45 That's the most important thing for me, or maybe not. Maybe the second most important thing.
07:49 It was brilliant. I know it's going to change everybody's weekends.
07:52 As always, I can't speak highly enough. It was a really brilliant occasion when we played back in the last season.
07:58 We had a bit of pressure off. The pressure's on us now and that's a really good thing for us.
08:02 Cheers.
08:03 - Okay.