In the face of Carlisle United, John Mousinho has absolved wasteful Pompey of all responsibility despite their several missed opportunities.
The Blues manager, however, found comfort in the fact that his team overcame the Cumbrians at Fratton Park even if they were far from their best. In the end, Mousinho’s team won 1-0 after missing numerous first-half opportunities to score, finishing with 13 shots on goal. Surprisingly, Colby Bishop was the main offender; the Magic Man squandered one excellent opportunity out of several.
However, Mousinho claimed he had no problem at all with his players’ inability to exert more effort. “I think we were a little wasteful in the first half, but I have no issue with that,” he stated.
It’s acceptable that we won’t always be able to strike the back of the net.
To be honest, I don’t mind because we produced opportunities and I believe I’ve been constant in that regard. If we are creating chances, I don’t mind because I know we will almost certainly put the ball in the back of the net.
It’s when we strayed into the second half’s non-creational times (something is wrong). We had an attacking and defensive unit, but I didn’t think we connected them all that well, so I felt like we were a little too open.
“When you’re on the sidelines, it can be difficult to judge, but we know we can play better than that.” The pivotal moment of the match transpired during stoppage time, as Conor Shaughnessy emerged victorious once more, mirroring his header against Wycombe earlier in the month.
Mousinho went on, “We say we keep finding a way, but this game and the Wycombe game are total opposites.”
I was rather happy with how well we seemed to manage the Wycombe game from beginning to end. Though it was entirely different this time, we still definitely earned that. We managed to find a solution, but we didn’t play very well. That was, I believe, the first time we had done that this season. “I believe we accomplished that, and when the dust settles, I’ll be really happy about it.” We won’t have any spark for 46 games. There will be days like these, but hopefully we are for most of them. If you manage to prevail, that’s a
