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Bristol Rovers 1-2 Pompey: John Mousinho's post-match verdict
The News, Portsmouth
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26/12/2023
Blues boss John Mousinho chats to The News after his side's Boxing Day loss at Bristol Rovers
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What do you make of today's defeat against Bristol Rovers?
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I think the nature of the defeat makes it really disappointing. The fact that we conceded
00:09
so late on, having been the side for the last 15-20 minutes that looked more likely to win
00:13
the game. I think when we take the performances overall, everything was up and down. We controlled
00:19
the game largely in the first half without really creating anything. My disappointment
00:23
there was just the quality in the final third. We put ourselves in good positions, crossed
00:26
the ball behind the goal, put it in the goalkeeper's hands. In that half-time, whilst I thought
00:30
we were pretty comfortable, we hadn't really threatened the goal at all. I think maybe
00:33
one header from Colby. But apart from that, we didn't do enough. At the start of the second
00:37
half, I thought that we just made a few rash decisions and we allowed Bristol Rovers to
00:42
get going, we allowed the crowd to get on top, conceded the goal obviously from a really
00:45
good free kick. But after that, the reaction was brilliant. Once we got the equaliser,
00:50
I thought we were going to go and win it.
00:51
You mentioned reaction, the subs worked as well, didn't they? You looked more likely
00:55
to score if anyone in the final few minutes before that.
00:58
I thought so. I was supposed to sum the game up and obviously it doesn't matter now, but
01:03
their goalkeeper was booked for time-wasting late on. We were the side that thought they
01:08
wanted to go and win the game. They've obviously gone and won it, so fair play to them. But
01:11
we did have that attacking intent late on. We wanted to go and win it. I don't think
01:14
the goal really came because we were too open and expansive. We just made a couple of poor
01:17
decisions. I haven't properly looked at it yet, so I'll have to see it and then revisit
01:22
on Thursday.
01:23
The substitutions had an impact?
01:25
Yes, they had a really good impact. Obviously, Paddy scored. I thought Christian was involved
01:30
in a lot of our good play. I think the disappointment for Christian was that he didn't put the ball
01:34
back in the net. I thought he had enough chances to do so. And yes, Cassini looked lively as
01:37
well.
01:38
I suppose up until the goal, you didn't create that much, did you really?
01:43
No, and in the first half especially, I thought we put ourselves in some good positions, but
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we didn't do enough in terms of creating. I didn't feel in the first half it was because
01:53
we couldn't get into their final third. We got into their final third well, we just didn't
01:56
create enough. The second half was slightly different. I thought we were struggling a
02:00
bit. We were looking to make the change anyway. We made that change early on with Christian
02:04
coming on. It's something we haven't struggled with too much this season, but again, we need
02:09
to make sure we do create a bit more.
02:11
A few really good performers this season didn't quite come through this game, did they? What
02:15
do you think that's down to?
02:17
I think there's a lot of factors. We've got some young lads in there who have been excellent
02:20
for us and sometimes can be up and down. We obviously accept that and take that. We obviously
02:29
have high expectations as a football club internally and externally quite rightly because
02:33
of the performances that everybody's seen this year and the amount that all of the boys
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have put in. So, it's hard to really put our finger on it. That's obviously our job. We'll
02:41
go away and try and figure out why and make sure we get team selection right for the 29th.
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But one of those things is just tough on the States.
02:49
Alex Robertson, that's not what the Alex Robertson we know is this season.
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No, and Robbo knows that. Obviously, it was a couple of things. Probably not his finest
02:59
in terms of what we know he's capable of. He was on the booking as well, so we wanted
03:01
to protect him. There were a couple of times in the first half where they broke beyond
03:05
and Robbo couldn't do anything about it because he was on that booking. So, we had to make
03:09
sure we protected him from that point.
03:11
He's set the bar so high. He's a kid still.
03:14
Yeah, he's a young lad and he's been brilliant. Robbo's been absolutely brilliant. Abi's
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been brilliant. They're just two young lads we've got on loan. Sometimes you get that.
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You get the stellar performances from these players that we know they're capable of. We're
03:27
going to keep pushing to make sure we get that week in, week out because we know they
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are capable of it. I think the demands at this football club should be really high.
03:34
We saw the response after the Blackpool game. Presumably, you want another one now.
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Yeah, the response is the important thing. We want to make sure we don't have to keep
03:43
putting responses in, if that makes sense. But we've lost the game. We've got to go again
03:47
Friday. It's a really big game for us now. Two massive games coming up in a short space
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of time.
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Yeah, but Friday is. It's a huge game, isn't it?
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Yeah, and it would have been a huge game anyway. Today, maybe we would have earned the right
04:02
to take a point if we hadn't have drawn at the weekend and didn't bleak Fleetwood. We
04:08
want to win every game. We want to go into every game positively and try and come out
04:11
with three points and we're going to do the same Friday. Thank you.
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