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Pompey boss John Mousinho Burton Albion verdict
The News, Portsmouth
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28/11/2023
Pompey boss John Mousinho gives his verdict on the EFL League One win at Burton Albion
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John, bounce back, it was all about the win today, wasn't it, presumably, after Saturday?
00:07
In some ways, yes, but the performance was really important to me as well and obviously
00:11
the result is the most important thing, but we did want to make sure that if we were going
00:15
to be consistent through the season we put good performances in as well. I thought for
00:20
the most part, apart from a mad ten minutes in the second half, I thought we were really
00:25
good. My only disappointment was that we didn't put the game to bed with a bit more comfort
00:29
towards the back end. We didn't necessarily have a huge amount of chances, but it was
00:32
the positions we put ourselves in, the opportunities we had to create something and test their
00:37
goalkeeper. But off the back of the weekend, with the disappointment, the blow to morale,
00:42
having conceded four clean sheets, three points away from home on a very, very cold Tuesday
00:46
night, it's really pleasing.
00:48
Do you learn anything about your side from tonight as well?
00:51
In a way, yes, because it's the first time we've been tested like this and it was a very,
00:56
very different feeling at the training ground yesterday, naturally, because we'd lost a
01:00
league game and it was about how we reacted. So, in a way, I've learned something about
01:06
the lads, but I say this now, I also knew that it was going to be a game that they reacted
01:12
in positively because I've seen how the boys have been since the first day of pre-season.
01:18
This group is a very, very good group. I think there's some excellent leaders in there. So,
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I think the resolve that they've shown to come through in a pretty tricky period and
01:28
a lot of people thinking, 'Oh, maybe this is Portsmouth dropping off', I think it was
01:32
an excellent night for all of those lads involved.
01:35
And then some of the lads bounced back as well, Sparks left back particularly. A lot
01:40
of good performances tonight after Saturday.
01:42
Yes, brilliant. We spoke to Jack yesterday about Saturday and that's going to happen,
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right? You're going to get times when you come up against really good wingers and they
01:52
give you a problem and there was probably a period in the second half there where Jack
01:56
was under a bit of pressure. The most pleasing things that he didn't go under and then I
02:00
think for the last half hour I didn't see the right-hand side really create anything
02:03
at all. He was aggressive, he worked hard, he did his best to keep the winger out of
02:09
the box and like I said, a really positive comeback and to keep a clean sheet as well
02:14
after the whole back five.
02:16
Obviously, Colby Bishop injury overshadows tonight as well. What's the situation, please?
02:20
I think that's the only negative of the night really. He went over on his ankle right in
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front of the bench here and I saw it straight away. I saw his weight go over on his ankle,
02:29
on his left ankle. A really frustrating one obviously for us. It doesn't look brilliant
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but his ankle's swollen up. It's one of those ones I think we're really, really unlucky
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with. There's nothing we can do about it. It wasn't a bad challenge, the pitch is fine.
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Colby's very resilient so we'll have to see how that pans out over the next couple of
02:48
days.
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Is he going to be in a boot at the end of the game and uncrutch his?
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Yes, so that's just precautionary. It's not to say that there's not an injury there. He's
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definitely injured but as a precaution you want to make sure you take as much weight
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off that ankle as possible and we'll review it over the next couple of days.
03:01
You could see he tried to run it off for a few minutes as well but it wasn't right.
03:04
Yes, I thought probably straight away that he wasn't going to be right but what we wanted
03:09
to do was just, we had two minutes to half-time and just make sure we got through and made
03:12
the right decision in terms of the substitution. We knew that Colby would go out there and
03:16
give us a couple of minutes and it wouldn't make it any worse. He's already turned over
03:20
his ankle. He wanted to just try it out anyway. He is a warrior. It takes a lot to get Colby
03:27
off the pitch and unfortunately tonight he's ended up on the bad side of them.
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