Skip to player
Skip to main content
Skip to footer
Search
Connect
Watch fullscreen
Like
Comments
Bookmark
Share
Add to Playlist
Report
Pompey boss John Mousinho's Wycombe Wanderers verdict
The News, Portsmouth
Follow
03/10/2023
Pompey boss John Mousinho gives his reaction to his side's dramatic late League One victory over Wycombe Wanderers at Fratton Park.
Category
🥇
Sports
Transcript
Display full video transcript
00:00
So Jon, have you caught your breath back after that dramatic win in, 8th minute of Adelaide?
00:07
Yeah, just about I think. I think one of the reasons I've managed to catch my breath quickly
00:13
is because I thought we thoroughly deserved it. If we'd come in at 1-1, having performed
00:19
the way that we did, I would have been maybe not quite as pleased, but I would have certainly
00:23
been as pleased with the performance because I thought we were superb for 90 to 100 minutes
00:27
whatever it was. I thought for a man across the side, there were some really, really good
00:33
performances as well.
00:34
You keep coming back from falling behind and you keep getting these late goals as well.
00:39
Yeah, I think in terms of falling behind, I haven't got a huge issue with the fact that
00:44
we fell behind other than we need to defend the set piece better because we started pretty
00:47
well and I think we dominated the game in the first half. The only criticism I would
00:51
have is of course we didn't defend the set piece well enough, but I didn't think we got
00:55
quite as many people in the box as we needed to and quite as many people in and around
00:59
Colby. I think we were coming towards the ball a bit too much. We tried to address that
01:04
at half-time. So yeah, coming from behind in this instance, I can live with because
01:09
it wasn't because of a poor performance I think in the first half. The late winner,
01:15
it just shows the time that's added on is really important for us. I said that prior
01:20
to the start of the season where I thought this was going to benefit us at Flatton Park
01:23
because sides do come here and they look to kill the game. Time now being added for a
01:28
two-minute injury is now two minutes, which is great. I know that sounds pretty strange,
01:32
but when we spoke to the referees in the summer and they were saying there might be a minute
01:37
and a half stoppage, they only add 45 seconds or a minute. So it's all making a difference
01:41
for us at the moment and thankfully we got the winner in that added time.
01:45
What's it say about your side that you keep coming from behind, you keep scoring in the
01:49
top of each time, you never give up? I think the side have just got a bit of a calmness
01:53
about them at the moment. They know that they're going to get chances in a game, they know
01:55
they're going to create. There's no panic sets in, no panic doesn't set in when we do
02:00
go a goal down. We want to stop doing it, definitely. But I really felt like when we
02:04
went a goal down again today, I thought, 'OK, it's fine, we go again, it happens in football.
02:08
We've got to pick ourselves up.' The most important thing for me is the attitude of
02:13
the players and I think the same goes for the fans. I think we see the attitude is there.
02:18
The attacking intent is there and you get rewarded for that and I think tonight we were
02:23
rewarded for all of those things. Did you see yourself getting a winner at all? I thought
02:28
we were the most likely side in the second half. I actually thought as soon as we scored
02:31
the equaliser we looked very, very threatening for 10-15 minutes and then the game died a
02:35
bit and I thought Wicca managed it very well. They also brought on Dale Taylor up front
02:39
who provided a very, very different threat to Sam Vokes and all of a sudden they span
02:43
the ball in behind a couple of times which caused a few more problems for us. I still
02:54
thought we were on top. The game just died away and there were a few injuries, a few
03:00
incidents, a few substitutions, fouls etc. We were looking at the bench going, 'What
03:09
substitutions do we make here?' We felt we had enough on the pitch to win the game. We
03:13
didn't want to settle for the point. We talked at one point about the physical threat that
03:18
Wickham have bringing on Sean a bit earlier. We wanted to keep going and make sure that
03:23
if and when we did score we were in a good spot. With Oxford winning, if you hadn't
03:28
have got that goal at the end you would have been dropped to second and some of you at
03:31
the death you are still at the top of the league. Yes and that's great. It's a really
03:36
added nice bonus. We can't do anything about other people's results. The one thing we
03:40
can control is our performance. You can't always guarantee that you are going to win
03:43
games but you can control your own performance, you can control the effort, the work rate
03:47
and everything else that you can put in. We did that tonight. Oxford are clearly a very,
03:51
very good side and making things happen in the league. With a lot of the teams that you
03:57
see this year, I think Wickham are an excellent side. I think they are going to compete in
04:00
the top six this year with some really good players. I know I say this every week but
04:04
Wickham were pretty good at the weekend as well. Some of the sides that we have played
04:08
recently, Barnsley, Derby, Peterborough, although the league doesn't seemingly have these Sheffield
04:15
Wednesdays and Inyptches in it, it's got a lot of clubs underneath that can really, really
04:20
compete with each other and I think that's what we are seeing this season. You have beat
04:23
some of these sides in the last few weeks as well. What does that say about your team?
04:26
I think it says that we are most of all starting to believe in ourselves a bit more. If I rewind
04:33
to the beginning of the month, the Peterborough game, I thought we were superb. The first
04:37
half against Derby, I thought we were okay, we were in the game. I asked the players at
04:42
half-time, it sounds a bit corny but to believe in themselves as much as we do as a staff
04:47
because we just think they are superb. One of the big standouts in that first half against
04:53
Derby, Alex Robertson chalking cheese to his second half performance. If you look at what
04:57
he did tonight, that's what we are trying to get into the players. We know you have
05:01
got that ability. Go and play. Show us what you show us in training every day. I think
05:09
the players have started to listen to us, i.e. you are really good players, go and play
05:15
well. It's all seemingly coming together. The most important thing for us is that we
05:19
take a huge amount of that belief but also then go right, we have got a very, very tough
05:22
test again on Saturday. We have got to dust ourselves off, go again and get back at it
05:28
on the training pitch.
Recommended
0:18
|
Up next
SailGP clear up in Southsea
The News, Portsmouth
yesterday
0:13
Waterlooville Town Centre
The News, Portsmouth
today
13:43
Pompey boss John Mousinho: Wycombe Wanderers preview
The News, Portsmouth
26/03/2024
9:29
Pompey boss John Mousinho Oxford United verdict
The News, Portsmouth
02/03/2024
5:13
Pompey boss John Mousinho's Bristol Rovers verdict
The News, Portsmouth
05/08/2023
5:34
Pompey boss John Mousinho's AFC Wimbledon verdict
The News, Portsmouth
20/12/2023
4:49
Pompey boss John Mousinho Burton Albion verdict
The News, Portsmouth
12/03/2024
8:06
Pompey boss John Mousinho Exeter City verdict
The News, Portsmouth
30/12/2023
7:15
Pompey boss John Mousinho Bristol Rovers presser
The News, Portsmouth
03/08/2023
6:38
Pompey boss John Mousinho's Fleetwood verdict
The News, Portsmouth
23/12/2023
7:42
Pompey boss John Mousinho Shrewsbury Town verdictA
The News, Portsmouth
07/04/2024
4:11
Pompey boss John Mousinho's Oxford United verdict
The News, Portsmouth
18/04/2023
3:05
Wycombe Wanderers v Portsmouth: John Mousinho's FA Cup verdict
The News, Portsmouth
11/01/2025
9:34
Pompey 2-1 Middlesbrough: John Mousinho's post-match reaction
The News, Portsmouth
18/01/2025
4:19
Pompey v Stevenage: John Mousinho's pre-match verdict
The News, Portsmouth
24/08/2023
7:30
Pompey 1-0 Blackburn: John Mousinho's post-match reaction
The News, Portsmouth
29/03/2025
6:09
Bristol Rovers v Pompey: John Mousinho's verdict
The News, Portsmouth
18/03/2023
6:12
Pompey boss John Mousinho's Charlton Athletic preview
The News, Portsmouth
09/11/2023
18:54
Pompey v Stoke: John Mousinho's pre-match press conference
The News, Portsmouth
20/01/2025
3:04
Pompey boss John Mousinho's Watford verdict
The News, Portsmouth
26/12/2024
3:49
Pompey boss John Mousinho's Sunderland verdict
The News, Portsmouth
05/01/2025
5:01
Pompey v Gillingham: John Mousinho's pre-match verdict
The News, Portsmouth
09/10/2023
8:03
John Mousinho Pompey verdict - Exeter City
The News, Portsmouth
15/08/2023
7:08
Watch: John Mousinho's Pompey latest
The News, Portsmouth
23/02/2023
4:53
Pompey v Cambridge United: John Mousinho's pre-match thoughts
The News, Portsmouth
12/02/2024