Portsmouth manager challenges the notion that October will finally provide a break from fixtures before the trip to Stoke City
After seven difficult Championship games, Pompey has emerged with an “okay” grade
from John Mousinho. Despite his refusal to admit that, by comparison
October presents much more favorable opposition.
The unlucky Blues are currently second from bottom with two points after facing
six of the top eight teams plus Luton.
With Oxford United, a fellow League One promotion contender,
and four of the bottom eight, at least October’s calendar looks more promising.
The first match of the month is a Wednesday night trip to Stoke.
who are currently leading by two points and have already appointed Narcis Pelach
as their second manager of the season.
However, Mousinho does not see a decline in opposition caliber in what
will undoubtedly be a crucial month for Pompey.
We always knew it was going to be a challenging time and a challenging spell.
He said to The News. Though some may argue that the schedule now appears differently,
I think every Championship game is incredibly tough. Stoke won’t do anything to help.
they’ll get right to it.
So far, I think we’ve done alright; there have been a few things that I’m happy with.
We’ve participated in most of the games and won some.
but we haven’t won as much as we should have, which is disheartening.
“Even when you compare us to Middlesbrough and Leeds,
We are winning into injury time and managed to escape with draws.” Going into injury time,
We are level with Burnley and have lost.
‘The performances have been decent in patches, but we need to defend better.
We need to score a lot more. The squad’s greatest quality right now is their game-by-game
improvement over the previous three contests.
When people mentioned that our eighth game was away to Stoke
and that the first seven were really difficult; it always made me laugh.
That ranks up there with the most challenging matches in the Championship
schedule, in my opinion.
We intended to win against Sheffield United regardless of who we played.
and we almost managed to take three points away from that game.
We want to keep doing it even though it was last year in the Premier League
against a team vying for promotion.
We exerted intense pressure on Luton, as well as intense pressure on Middlesbrough.
Leeds, and Burnley. Regardless of the opponent, we have to make sure we accomplish
that for every side we play and win points.
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