Chesterfield 1-0 Pompey: John Mousinho's post-match verdict

The News, Portsmouth

Pompey boss John Mousinho talks to The News after the Blues' FA Cup exit at the hands of non-league Chesterfield

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00:00 So Jon, pumping out the epic cup to Chesterfield, what do you make of that match-up?

00:05 I thought that first of all Chesterfield thoroughly deserved to win the game, they were the better side.

00:11 I thought the game overall, the first half was fairly even, I thought we'd probably have the better of it,

00:15 controlled the game up until half-time.

00:17 Second half, I thought we were really poor and Chesterfield ran all over us.

00:22 The final result is a real fair reflection of what we saw today.

00:26 Other than the result, what disappointed you most today?

00:29 Quite a few things actually, without being able to nail everything down,

00:34 I felt at times, I've just said it there, that Chesterfield ran all over us in the second half.

00:40 I turned around to Jon a couple of times on the bench, sometimes it feels like we're playing with ten men here.

00:46 It's the first time it's happened in a long, long time, so we've got to make sure we take it with a pinch of salt and don't overreact.

00:51 I was also disappointed with the quality that we displayed in the final third.

00:55 The lack of quality was probably the worst I've seen possibly since I've been here.

00:59 We kept crossing the ball behind, we couldn't get shots off.

01:01 When we did have opportunities, we didn't get it on target.

01:04 I can't think of any one time that we tested the goalkeeper at all.

01:08 So, plenty of things to take away and I think we need to do better at.

01:12 Decision-making as well, that second half, they seemed to make the wrong choice every single time.

01:16 Yes, one thing that if you want to sum up the game pretty well is when we have a corner in the last minute

01:22 and the goalkeepers come up and we don't deliver the ball in the box, that probably sums up the decision-making,

01:27 especially in the second half.

01:28 Like I said, it's easy to get carried away because of how poor you were in the second half.

01:33 The first half I thought we were absolutely fine without really having too much cutting edge.

01:37 Obviously conceded from a set-piece, but yes, the second half, just not good enough overall.

01:45 Obviously it's been a good season so far in the league and you looked a pale shadow of yourself today.

01:51 Yes, I think no need to overreact.

01:53 We obviously can't put those sort of performances in again and one of the big messages to the lads was

01:57 if you do that in six days' time against Charlton, then you're going to get punished as well.

02:02 Come back from the international break, if you do that against Blackpool, you're going to get punished

02:05 because Chesterfield are a good side, but these sides are probably slightly better.

02:10 So, you have to make sure you're on it and we just weren't on it today.

02:14 If you'd have given me a choice of all those games to lose, it would have been today.

02:18 That's no disrespect to the FA Cup because we came here with a full-strength side.

02:22 Obviously, we did respect the competition, but I think if we're going to lose a game,

02:26 this is the one to do and concentrate now on, first of all, the EFL Trophy Tuesday and then the league on Saturday.

02:30 What was it that Chesterfield did that you guys couldn't cope with?

02:34 Good question. We'll have to look back at the video.

02:37 I thought we coped with them pretty well in the first half.

02:39 They switched the ball out a couple of times, which was fine, but overall I thought we were fine.

02:43 There were no huge issues and we conceded the goal, which we think we can do better at.

02:49 It's difficult to summarise, but one of the things I saw after about a minute of the second half

02:56 was Michael Jacobs run past six players and waltz into our box.

02:59 That's just not good enough. We can't have that and it happened time and time again.

03:03 It felt at times like we were getting overrun.

03:06 Injuries as well. Not only in the first half, but with two injuries. What was the situation there?

03:11 I think Regan's okay. He came and sat on the bench and twisted his knee.

03:15 The only disappointing part of that was that instead of him offside, the linesman slipped and said he thought he was 90% offside.

03:22 For some reason they didn't give it. That was the frustrating one there.

03:25 Then Tino's done his hamstring, so that's probably slightly worse than Regan's.

03:29 Obviously, at this stage, you don't know how severe the hamstring is.

03:32 No, we don't know yet. We'll have a look at both injuries tomorrow and then go from there.

03:36 With Tino, you've handled him in kids' gloves the whole time he's been here.

03:40 You've looked after him and edged him into the game. Is that disappointing that he's gone down today with that?

03:45 Of course. It's one of those things. There's nothing you can do about that.

03:48 I think eight days post that Reading game and having done everything as we normally do during the week,

03:55 it's one of those things. Obviously, Tino's really disappointed in there.

03:58 We'll see how that goes. Hopefully, we have him getting back quickly.

04:02 Is it a bad one?

04:03 I don't know. I honestly don't know. It doesn't look great, no.

04:06 Regan, what happened? He twisted his knee when he fell to the floor.

04:10 I think he got a bit of a nudge and twisted his knee. It doesn't seem like it's too bad.

04:14 Again, we'll have to take stock of it over the next couple of days and see how it is.

04:17 He came out, he's walking, he's not on crutches or anything like that. Hopefully, he's fine.

04:21 How is Tino with that setback?

04:23 He's disappointed, obviously. I think he's being protected.

04:26 I think we've got him on the crutches just to make sure he doesn't put too much pressure through his hamstring.

04:30 But, yes, he's not happy.

04:32 He can't catch a break at the moment, can he?

04:34 You say that. He's been playing pretty well. He scored last week.

04:39 Things were coming along nicely.

04:41 So, yes, maybe overall it's just one of those things.

04:44 Injuries are part of the game and we've got to deal with them.

04:46 We're going to have to dust ourselves off and go again Tuesday.

04:49 We've got another game Saturday.

04:51 We've got a squad for a reason and it's going to be tested now.

04:54 Thank you.

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