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Pompey 2-1 Stevenage: John Mousinho's post-match reaction
The News, Portsmouth
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01/01/2024
Blues head coach John Mousinho talks to The News after seeing his side beat fellow promotion-challengers Stevenage at Fratton Park
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So Jon, two very different performances in each half, what's the pensioners like about
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both of them today in that victory?
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Yeah, I think exactly that. I was pretty pleased at half time with how we performed, I thought
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we played some really good stuff, I thought we dealt with the conditions, we dealt with
00:15
Steven Idris's press and got out time and time again, created a few opportunities. The
00:19
only disappointment for me was, well a couple of disappointments, that we didn't go 2-0
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up when we had the chance and that we obviously conceded the equaliser because it was something
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that we look at in terms of how Steven Idris play and we think it's predictable. It doesn't
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always mean it's easy to stop but we knew it was coming so we were a bit upset with
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that but to come in at half time with the lead we were really pleased with. Second half,
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on the ball I thought we were poor, I thought we made some poor decisions and we never really
00:43
sustained any pressure in Steven Idris's half and ultimately when you don't do that home
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or away from home, decent enough sides are going to start to turn the screw and I thought
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they did that in the second half. Without creating a huge amount I think there was one
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chance, one really good chance they had where their play was through one on one but apart
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from that I felt we defended our box brilliantly well and we competed and we had to show a
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different side certainly to the first half and a different side to what we've seen most
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of this season which was really pleasing I think especially off the back of everything
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we've dealt with over the last four games and we've not been in sparkling form, we haven't
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won in three and I thought there were a lot of tired legs out there today as well. I can
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see the blip, three games coming to this game, nerves are getting a little bit frayed but
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that answers a few questions wouldn't you say? I think so and what you've got to do
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is get used to winning games, that's the most important thing now. Essentially performances
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are really important to us but towards the back end of the season now with the last however
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many games we've got, I think 21 games left, let's be honest we need to get results and
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results are the most important thing. There are things we're going to have to address
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with the second half performance and we want to try and win games a bit more comfortably,
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put our chances away first of all but also not invite as much pressure as we did. I think
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though you can definitely look at that and I felt it in the second half, I thought we
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looked tired and I thought we looked like a side who were slightly low on confidence
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off the back of the run and had travelled a couple of times over the Christmas period.
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We obviously have to deal with that, we've got to be a bit better in doing that but the
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most important thing was just to get through that and then move on to Saturday. You say
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they looked tired and a little bit low on confidence, that was a great result then in
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that case? Oh brilliant, yeah brilliant. Obviously if you'd offered me that result before the
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game I would have taken it. There were times in the first half I thought well this might
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be the one where we really go and put a side to bed and I thought we looked like a decent
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football side. They're tough games these, they're really tough games because there's
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not a lot of ball in play, the game's quite slow, it's a really physical game, when the
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ball drops sometimes the temptation is just to hook it on and sort of relieve the pressure
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on a goal and we want to just be a bit better in those sort of moments and try and bring
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the ball down and be a bit more composed. So yeah they're really, really tough games
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and when you play a tough game take all of those things into account. I think it is a
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fantastic, fantastic result because it's been a tough little spell for us. What did you
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make of that challenge on Christian Sadie at the end? I thought it was one of the worst
03:05
challenges I've seen on a football pitch and I've been around the game for about 20 years
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and you know Christian's got a nasty cut there, just sort of in between his nose and his eyes.
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So to be fair the referee dealt with it and sent him off, it was one of the most clear
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reds you'll ever see in the game and one of those things that we don't like to see but
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it's happened and Christian will be fine, he's a tough kid. Have you come across anything
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top to much? Yep, plenty, plenty. I mean for Portsmouth fans will remember I played here
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for Oxford and Alex Merritt missed the penalty at the Milton Hicks, it was a nice incident
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after that. So yeah, one of those, I'm sure he didn't mean it but it wasn't a great challenge.
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Is Christian alright at the moment? He's okay, I think he's a bit dazed, I think when you
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stick your head in there and you get four or five studs across your eye, you're never
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in the best place but he seems fine, he seems absolutely fine. So is it above his eye or
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underneath his eye? Just underneath, yeah, there's a lot of blood so just underneath
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I think. But I thought it was the right decision to bring him off first of all because it was
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a bad head injury and we didn't know if we could stop the bleeding and when you take
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a whack like that I think the best thing is just to be secure and make sure that we were
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safe in what we did. Tough lad though isn't he? Christian's a really tough lad, you can
04:14
see that in the way that he plays and how physical he is and he's a big old boy, he
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can look after himself and he'll be absolutely fine and he'll be raring to go come Saturday.
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