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Pompey boss John Mousinho West Brom verdict
The News, Portsmouth
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15/09/2024
Pompey boss John Mousinho speaks to The News after the 3-0 defeat to West Brom.
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A harsh scoreline on the performance today, but lessons to be learnt in ruthlessness as
00:10
well?
00:11
Yeah, I do think it's harsh, the scoreline. I don't think that was a particularly fair
00:16
reflection of the game, particularly in the first half where I thought we were really
00:19
good and we put West Brom under a lot of pressure. But like you say there, not clinical enough,
00:23
not ruthless enough. When West Brom had the chances they put the ball in the back of the
00:26
net and they made us suffer, they made us pay for the mistakes that we made and we
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couldn't quite do that to them. I think if we actually do put the ball in the back of
00:34
the net and take a chance in the first half it's a very different game.
00:37
The first half, a crackling atmosphere and probably as a response to the performance
00:43
after falling behind after 54 seconds. But again, falling behind after 54 seconds then
00:47
gives you a mountain to climb.
00:49
Yeah, that would be the message is that don't wait until we do go a goal behind to click
00:53
into life like we did. Really disappointing because of the way that we conceded the goal,
00:57
the nature of it and how much it changed the game. It gave West Brom something to hold
01:01
on to which they did really well. Defended the box brilliantly, the two centre-halves
01:04
were outstanding. Again, it's another really good lesson. We spoke about furlong and the
01:12
quick throws, the throws in behind in the week and sometimes even when you know what's
01:15
coming it's difficult to stop it. But I still think the boys have got to do better and we've
01:18
got to do better collectively to make sure that we stop that from happening.
01:21
You really got after them with your press and Marlon was setting the tone as well. That
01:27
was encouraging.
01:28
Yeah, we pressed a lot higher than we have in previous weeks and we did that deliberately
01:33
and that was something I thought we got a lot of joy from in the first half. Sometimes
01:36
when you do that you're going to get picked off and there are going to be chances at the
01:39
other end and that's fine, that's something we accept. But I think being aggressive on
01:43
the press like we were really suited us.
01:46
A moment of quality after the second half and West Brom showing their quality to shut
01:49
the game down pretty well from there on.
01:51
Yeah, and once that second goal went in I still thought if we managed to nick one it
01:55
would have really changed the complexion of the last 10-15 minutes of the game. We didn't
01:58
manage to do that. I feel a bit aggrieved by the third goal but apart from that I don't
02:04
have too many complaints about how good West Brom were in the second half.
02:07
Josh Murphy fans getting a sight of him today and he really had to really encourage that
02:11
debut for Pompey.
02:12
Yeah, I thought he was excellent. A constant threat on that left-hand side and I'm really
02:17
pleased to have him back in a Portsmouth shirt. The only disappointment was that we had to
02:22
manage him and bring him off after 60. We don't want to risk anything with Josh coming
02:25
back from the injury and having been out for so long. Once we see more of him getting fitter
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and fitter I think there's plenty to come.
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He's obviously going to be a threat at Championship level and he showed a lot of indication of
02:36
that today.
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Yeah, I thought he showed a huge amount going forward and did his job defensively really
02:43
well too. There's loads more to come from Josh, that's the most exciting thing. I think
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he really is coming into the peak of his career. He's got himself in fantastic physical condition
02:52
and he's got the quality to back it up as well.
02:54
And Tom McIntyre, obviously it's been a long wait for him. Straight into the starting XI
02:59
today.
03:00
Yeah, Tom's been really good in training and brings a bit of Championship experience, a
03:03
lot of composure and we thought it was the right thing to do to bring him in. I thought
03:07
he was really good today and again we just managed Tom making sure that we didn't risk
03:10
injury with him playing for too many minutes and we're really pleased with his contribution.
03:15
So what was the thinking over that and then Rielly telling him he's missing out as a consequence?
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I just thought he was one of those where we needed that experience and Tom's got that.
03:27
He's played 100 games in the Championship and I think Rielly can count himself unlucky
03:31
to not find himself in the starting line-up but it was one of those things that we made
03:34
the decision to do that and go from there.
03:36
Conor Shockley, I see you're missing out today. Any social medias to believe? There's been
03:40
a bust-up with yourself, can you shed any light on that?
03:42
Yeah, a massive fight. We had a massive fight. It's all nonsense, there's no bust-up. I get
03:46
on really well with Shocks and he's just struggling with the calf injury to get over it and we're
03:52
frustrated, we're really frustrated and he's frustrated but it's one of those, it's an
03:56
injury down at the bottom of the calf, the soleus and they can be really, really tricky
03:59
for anyone that's ever had one of those. So we've got to get him right, we've got to make
04:02
sure that he is right, he's such an important player for us. Even after the bust-up I still
04:07
quite like him. We're just waiting for him to come back and we'll see very soon, there's
04:14
nothing in that at all.
04:16
He trained, he was obviously close, was it just kind of erring on the side of the course
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and for the longer term with Conor?
04:20
Yeah, he just felt it towards the back end of training a little bit and then didn't train
04:26
on Saturday so he didn't train yesterday and that's the, again, maybe one of those
04:31
where 50-50 in a different game, last game of the season we play him but if we risk having
04:36
him out for another six, seven weeks there's no point in doing that.
04:39
And obviously a heartening and gladdening moment with Regan Poole out after ten months?
04:43
Yeah, brilliant reception that Regan got. Regan's actually only played I think 15 games
04:47
for the football club so to get that reception I think everybody knows the quality that he's
04:51
got and what he's going to bring this season and once we've got him back in Boston with
04:55
options at centre-half again, we play with that back four, I think it's going to really
04:59
add to our squad.
05:00
How long is it going to take for Regan to get back to approaching the level that we
05:03
saw from him in his Pompey career so far?
05:05
I don't know is the honest answer. When you come back from an ACL it can take its time
05:09
but he's been out for a long time, he's been training for a long time and we'll see. I
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don't know how long it's going to take but hopefully it's very quick and we see him back
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in business really soon.
05:19
I'm no expert in that field but I think the re-injury rate with ACLs is quite high isn't
05:22
it so is that an indication that you've got to guard against those sort of problems?
05:26
Yeah, that's why I think we've been very cautious with him. When you have the graft with essentially
05:32
putting an artificial ACL into your knee, you have to make sure that the graft sets
05:36
in before you can actually do anything and everything else around that then becomes a
05:40
problem because of the loss of strength in the hamstring, the quad, the calf, etc. All
05:46
these sort of things so we have to be cautious with him and make sure that he's right.
05:49
Obein Bouat was having a scan this week, can you give us any update on that?
05:53
Yeah, not good news unfortunately with Obein so he's ruptured his patella tendon, real
05:57
freak one where he's gone to take a shot in a small-sided game and it's going to be probably
06:01
about six months for Obein so we're all really gutted and he is as well.
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That's obviously for the supporters to hear that, they're going to be gutted as everyone
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is so how much of a blow is that for yourselves and for the lad?
06:11
It's a massive blow for that to happen without him even setting foot on the football pitch
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for us. We're really devastated by it and unfortunately one of the things that happens
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in football just when we had most of our players back and we were looking a bit more healthy
06:25
on the injury front that goes and happens so we'll review it as always and go from there.
06:29
I guess the supporters perhaps a little bit on the outside they see the number of injuries
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and an injury of that and they look to reasons like to the pitch, they look to due diligence
06:39
on players, can you just give an insight? I don't think there's a great deal of injury
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history for Obein for example and these things all get looked at.
06:46
Yeah so with Obein he had a full season last year playing out in Austria, the season before
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a full season playing out in the Netherlands. No injury history or hardly any injury history
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at all, fine on the medical end and came in and had that freak injury on I think it must
07:01
have been on Tuesday it happened so after a period of rest as well so yeah I don't really
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know we look into all of these things that's what I assure the fans I know there's a lot
07:10
of frustration because they want to see players and it seems like we've got this sort of curse
07:13
with injuries at the moment so yeah I really don't know but we are making sure that with
07:19
every single injury we pick up and then look at the collectives that we do everything we
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possibly can to make sure players don't get injured.
07:24
I guess if you look to the injuries now there's a sort of spate of hamstrings going you sort
07:28
of say that you know it's not going to be answerable I think you've had like impact
07:31
injuries and sort of unusual histories there's no real pattern I guess?
07:34
No there isn't and that is a big thing for us when we the soft tissue injuries we do
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tend to look at with a bit more depth the contact injuries there's nothing you can do
07:43
and I've been open about how I'd much rather we train with intensity rather than you know
07:49
rather than knocks I think you need it you can see in Championship games you absolutely
07:52
need intensity and you can't just switch it on and off in the week I think maybe the top
07:55
lads can do that but certainly where we are at the moment I think we had a lot of success
08:00
last year because of the way that we played and the intensity that we showed and if you
08:03
look at the first half there you can't just go lads we're going to have a couple of sort
08:07
of light sessions in the week and not tackle and not press and try and replicate what we
08:12
did there so it's always a balance it's a fine balance that's ultimately what we've
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got to get right and we've got to do we've got to make sure we do get the right balance
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but yeah there's something we've got to think about.
08:22
We've certainly seen that already this season it's going to be necessary to perform with
08:25
that intensity from Leeds from day one onwards really haven't we?
08:29
Yeah these are really good sides they're really good sides with really good athletes and we've
08:32
got to step up to the plate and make sure we deliver as well.
08:35
It's finally all harping on about injuries but Cassini Yenge was on the team list today
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wasn't he?
08:40
Was there a late injury there?
08:41
Yeah it probably sort of sums up our luck at the moment with Cass doing the full warm
08:45
up and just feeling he's going towards the end and I don't know if that's about the travel
08:49
or what it is but it was fine all week came back on Monday actually and yeah a late one
08:53
where we had to take him off the team sheet.
08:54
So is there any indication of extent of that yet?
08:57
No none at all.
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All right cheers Jon.
08:59
Thank you mate.
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