Portsmouth head coach John Mousinho felt his side waited for Town to go two goals in front before starting to play during their 2-1 loss at Portman Road.

The Blues were two in front by half-time through Jaden Philogene and George Hirst with Pompey more in the game in the second period, although the result never looked in doubt. Marlon Pack’s injury-time header - only Portsmouth’s fifth league goal this season - came too late to be the platform for a comeback.

“We are disappointed with the result obviously,” Mousinho said. “Contrasting the two halves, we took too long to get going and it took us to go a goal down to settle into the game and after that there wasn’t a huge amount in it.

“The second goal is really disappointing the big takeaway is that we waited to go two goals down to actually play and to actually show that we are not a bad side at all. I thought the second half we were a lot better and much improved.

“You come away from a place like this a fantastic side we were playing against and it’s a little bit of frustration and disappointing that we did not come away with at least a point.

“I was impressed with the second half performance, particularly when we made the changes. If we had shown a little bit of that in the first half, but we just gave ourselves too much to do.”

He added: “But the fact we’re frustrated to lose against a side that have come down from the Premier League and have spent more on one of their substitutes than we have on our whole squad – which they’ve earned the right to do – shows we’re getting there.

“It’s been a big improvement from where we found ourselves at this stage last year and now need to take the next step.”

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ArmaghBlue added 19:00 - Sep 27 AKA, we got complacent and let you play.
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peckam added 19:24 - Sep 27 Pompey were poor I thought. Could not cope with our midfield at all. We managed the 2nd half very well until we got sloppy in the last minute. A very comfortable win. Kipre and Matusiwa outstanding. If their manager is happy with that performance then they are in trouble!! We saved energy with 2 much bigger games to come this week. COYB!!
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BlueRuin69 added 20:03 - Sep 27 Disappointed not to come away with a point......you were outclassed
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ArnieM added 20:25 - Sep 27 I dont think Pompey ever " started to play"..... we however, stopped playing.
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Dissboyitfc added 20:29 - Sep 27 He didnt watch the same game as me. A very comfortable win!
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tractordamage added 21:01 - Sep 27 We never get this type of delusion with McKenna. Thank gawd. I'd hate to have a Manager that denies Reality, to look better in his job. It insults the fans. You can't improve or fix issues, if you can't be honest.
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poet added 21:25 - Sep 27 Yet another example of a losing manager sugarcoating his side’s performance. Truth is, when Town played, Pompy couldn’t touch us. The downside was, we didn’t play for 90 minutes, we had low periods in our performance which allowed an average Pompy side to look a lot better than they actually are. If we are to climb this league, we must kill sides like Pompy off, because we didn’t score enough goals to reflect on our domination of the game. Too many good chances went begging. All the same, a good 3 points. Next Tuesday’s game will be tougher,

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