{"id":498525,"date":"2026-02-25T12:26:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T12:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/498525\/"},"modified":"2026-02-25T12:26:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T12:26:08","slug":"a-game-of-two-halves-mousinho","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/498525\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;A game of two halves&#8217; &#8211; Mousinho"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Portsmouth boss John Mousinho praised his side for an excellent second half performance despite <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/football\/live\/cj983lr34d7t?xtor=AL-72-%5Bpartner%5D-%5Byahoo.north.america%5D-%5Blink%5D-%5Bsport%5D-%5Bbizdev%5D-%5Bisapi%5D\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:losing 2-1 at Wrexham;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">losing 2-1 at Wrexham<\/a> on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The old cliche, it was a game of two halves,&#8221; Mousinho <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sounds\/play\/p0n31gh9?xtor=AL-72-%5Bpartner%5D-%5Byahoo.north.america%5D-%5Blink%5D-%5Bsport%5D-%5Bbizdev%5D-%5Bisapi%5D\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:told BBC Radio Solent;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">told BBC Radio Solent<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think we completely dominated the second half. I was really disappointed with the first goal, the second was a set-piece that stems from a foul but the less we say about that the better.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I thought it was really poor officiating all night and it was just a shame that we gave ourselves so much of a mountain to climb because we were superb in the second half.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Coming off the back of the third away game on the spin, coming here against a side that has just run riot at home, I thought we were much the better side.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was one of those nights if it had been 1-0 at half-time, the outcome is probably different. We finished strongly, we looked really fit, we need to show a little bit more belief on the ball.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A lot of improvement, I thought we made them look very ordinary in the second half.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/1772022368_310_.gif\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Portsmouth boss John Mousinho praised his side for an excellent second half performance despite losing 2-1 at Wrexham&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":498526,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[199585,49,48,199584,561,82],"class_list":["post-498525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-bbc-radio-solent","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-john-mousinho","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498525","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=498525"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498525\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/498526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=498525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=498525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=498525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}