Pompey boss John Mousinho's Swansea City verdict

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Pompey boss John Mousinho gives his verdict on the 2-2 Championship draw with Swansea City.

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00:00and the Swansea player takes it 15 yards ahead of where it should have been. My take to referees

00:05is don't give yourself a problem. You're going to have a problem because I am going to say

00:09that has been taken 10-15 yards away from where the throwing has gone out. By the way,

00:12it's our throw as well, but I understand they make mistakes. The same thing happened in

00:15the second half here when there was a free kick close to the touchline, the one where

00:18John got booked. Of course, we've got to probably tidy up our behaviour on the touchlines, but

00:23we see what we're like. We feel like we're fans, we're players, we're everything in between

00:31and we feel it. Yes, we've got to be better, but it's just incredibly frustrating because

00:36we need a lot more than that.

00:38Nicola Schmidt's save, what can you urge a couple in there, but particularly the one

00:41from Liam Cullen?

00:42Yes, absolutely superb. It looked superb in real time. I haven't seen it back. I'm sure

00:47it's going to look even better then, but yes, we need that. We're going to need players

00:50to step up and I think Nick has come over and he's been excellent. He's been really,

00:54really good and I'm feeling for him that he's made that save.

00:57After all the drama, you could so easily have just nicked it right at the end there as well.

01:00Yes, I think if we had, it probably wouldn't have been deserved, but yes, we did nearly

01:05nick it playing sensible football. We hit Connor from being a bit more direct. He won

01:12his own second ball and we nearly threw. On another day that goes in, did we deserve it?

01:18Probably not, but I think on effort and endeavour and just the sheer frustration of what it's

01:24been like this week, I think it was really difficult to come here and sustain what we

01:27tried to do. We looked fresh in the first half. The second half, we looked like a side

01:31that hadn't played for three weeks and those are a few things that we're hopefully going

01:35to get over now going into the home games next week.

01:37How's Marco Mane?

01:38He took a knock to his hip, so I don't know, he just didn't look... I signalled over and

01:44said, are you OK? He said he was fine and I saw him run for about another 10 yards.

01:47I knew he wasn't, so we had the sub ready. I thought it was obviously a shame for him.

01:53I don't know, I think he's not too bad, but he's taken a whack to the hip.

01:56Any news with Kassim Yengi as yet?

01:57No, nothing yet. He's in with a specialist on Friday. I haven't spoken to Steve about

02:04it. There may be an update, but we'll speak after and I'll give you a full update on Wednesday.

02:09Do you feel like you're learning lessons when you come to places like the Champions League

02:12and improving as a side and how to deal with... you know they're going to have times of possession,

02:16you're going to have moments of dominance. Do you feel your team is learning and dealing with them?

02:20Yes, I think that we've dealt with a really, really good Swansea side for 46 of the 47

02:27minutes and 47 of the 48 minutes of the first half. I'm really, really frustrated with the

02:32way that we conceded the goal. Not the cross and not the fact that it's gone in. The fact

02:35that we just overplayed after going 2-0 up. One minute to go is for half-time. I couldn't

02:40fathom what we were thinking and then we get picked off and Swansea score. The only time

02:44we did it in half. So, these are the lessons we've got to learn. We've got to learn a bit

02:48better. We want to play a bit more football if we possibly can, but this side is pressed

02:52really well with excellent athletes. So, we have to be wary of that and we have to make

02:56sure we play to our strengths. When we did, we looked a really good side. When we didn't,

02:59we looked a bit poor. We've got to try and have a lot more of the form.

03:05Thanks Joel.

03:06Cheers Andy.

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