Chapter 1: What positives can be taken from the 4-0 loss?
Pompey women were turned over by the club up the road, Dan Shaw grabbed Jay Sadler at the final whistle, and they took a bunch of positives out of a poor result.
Jay, I think that's going to be one you look back on, probably tomorrow and the coming days, and actually 4-0 is going to seem like a really harsh result.
Yeah, it does. Trying to kind of put your finger on it, really. It's difficult. Losing the game 4-0. First and all, you've got to look at the four goals. I think they were poor goals to give away. In moments where I thought we were on top of the game, I thought we controlled the first kind of 15, 20 minutes. We were the team with the ascendancy, with the ball, trying to break down the block.
And ultimately, we've conceded from a counter-attack and a set-piece, which is extremely disappointing.
Chapter 2: How did the team perform in the first half against Southampton?
his second half thought we made some structural changes tried to get on the ball more pin them back in for large periods without creating too much that was probably the kind of disappointing thing that we weren't able to get him behind the back line and really test the keeper and ultimately when the third and fourth has gone in the game's over and it looks like a bad scoreline it is a bad scoreline it does hurt but also it's difficult when we've kind of shot ourselves in the foot on four occasions and I thought we had the lion's share of the ball and I thought we were in the game all the way but
ultimately football is about scoring at one end and not conceding at the other and today we were in both boxes not good enough yeah wind it back because the first goal
I've said in commentary, that's the first real moment in the game where Southampton showed some brilliance, some quality, where the game wasn't dead rubber, dead level. Of course, Southampton had a little bit more of the ball at times and in different areas looked better. But actually, on the whole, in the first half, it was pretty level until that moment.
And then it's a poor, poor goal to concede for the corner in it. So it's just, again, I don't think there's a lot in terms of the quality there. There's just moments again for you, isn't it, that's cost you?
Yeah, and I agree. I think between both boxes, it was an even game. It was a contested game. There were momentum shifts. I thought we started well. I thought they'd come back into the game. And ultimately, big decisions need to go for and against you in the boxes. And unfortunately, they've hit us on a transition. We've all narrowed off recovery runs.
We didn't scan and see the player at the back post and they've punished. And it was a well-worked goal. But ultimately, we can do better with defending a space and beyond.
And then from corners, we've worked on all week how they're going to attack the front post zone and we've allowed the player to run off the shoulder, get the free header and ultimately find yourself 2-0 down in a game that I don't think was a 2-0 game. However, they've created the two moments, as you said, they've taken the two moments and we find ourselves a bit of a mountain to climb.
I thought we did some good work in the first half. We got into the final third. We created moments. There's three massive, massive calls for penalties that have not been given. We've looked back on them and I'm disappointed at least one of them wasn't given. Jess Simpson's come right through the back of Megan Hornby, not given. Amy Goddard's played a second one on Megan Hornby.
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Chapter 3: What were the critical moments that led to conceding goals?
And I don't know what Meg's got to do to get a penalty or what we've got to do to get a penalty. We had a massive shout against Newcastle, not given. So I'd love to know the explanation behind them. So they're difficult moments in a game like this when I felt that could have shifted the ascendancy.
And then in the second half, again, everything had a lot more of the ball, created good moments up until the final third, and then we conceded two goals and lost the game 4-0.
So it hurts, it's disappointing, there's a lot of emotion there, but I think once we give the dust a bit of time to settle on the game, we've really got to look and pick the bones out of it, because I don't think between both boxes I thought we were worthy, we competed well, but ultimately in the 18 boxes, both 18 boxes, we weren't good enough today.
For what it's worth... I thought one of them was and the rest weren't as well. And I was a little bit surprised by that. At half time, it's a strange one because you feel like you should be all doom and gloom at 2-0 down at half time. But the guys are talking there at half time on the show and... they were a little bit downtrodden, disheartened.
But I said, look, this game, it's not away from us at the moment. I think there's definitely, there's not been, I didn't look at Southampton's squad and Pompey's squad and the way they faced up and felt as though Southampton were majorly a better side.
And I definitely saw that if you could get to grips with it and cut out a couple of individual errors, stay a little bit more compact as a unit, that that opportunity would come. And actually, even with 15 minutes to go, I was saying, I still fancy it. You know, if I get that next one, It's game on. Five minutes later, I'm saying, I can't believe I'm saying it, but it's game over now.
It is just moments, isn't it? But what was it that you said at half-time that brought them out in the second half the way they did? Because I thought the performance actually was fantastic up until that third goal that they scored.
I agree, and I said to them at half-time that the game's not gone. I genuinely believe if we can get a moment and take it, then the momentum will shift. The crowd will probably start to get agitated, and they've obviously won one of five in the league, so this was a big one for them to try and propel themselves away from the bottom cluster within the league.
I felt we just needed to get a little bit more connectivity higher. I felt everyone was dropping towards the ball too much and we were leaving our top line isolated and we weren't able to.
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Chapter 4: What changes were made in the second half to improve performance?
And I thought some real good patterns. I was really happy with how we kind of controlled the game well. with the ball, but it was the turnover moments that I wasn't happy with. The rest of the defence, as soon as we lost the ball, we then looked fragile in the transition. What if we lose it? Are we prepared to then defend where the space is? Who were their threats? And they played that well.
And like you said, all the way through to 70-75, I thought we're trying to roll the dice, trying to change it, trying to create moments where one goal and the whole game changes. And unfortunately, the goal went... winning our goal, 3-0, then it went to four and then you're thinking damage limitation in terms of don't allow any more.
We want to see a mentally resolute team at 3-0 and unfortunately the errors, they're individual errors, they're individual moments where we need to be concentrated better, we need to have better decision making, better detail and they're really easily avoidable goals and I don't want to pin players and pin it down to them but ultimately that's the level when you step up to the WSL2.
It's another thing I said, it just seemed the difference wasn't necessarily in the feet, it was in the mind at times. Just those little individual moments where Pompey switched off and you'd get punished for those mistakes. And we know that, so we won't go into that. But look... Getting the goals is obviously going to be tough. Hornby, I thought, played really well tonight.
She didn't get her goal. But you've got to look around the pitch for players who are going to be able to get goals. Gale's gone now. That's four goals out the side. Where do you look to? How are you going to go about getting some players in, maybe through the door or trying to get people to step up to find those goals?
Yeah, well, we've had the conversations with the board and they're really supportive of us to try and get some numbers in and especially in attacking areas.
As you said, I thought Meg Hornby, I thought Hank Cohn, I thought them two really stood out for us today and Meg was one of the players that had the impetus to try and get us a goal even towards the end, dancing through players and a shot going over. She was threatening today. Ange Nixon is a
as a player maybe the game didn't work out in her favour in terms of the spaces weren't there for her to attack but she's certainly got the quality Tia Primm has got the quality so we've definitely got the quality but now it's for them to now start converting that quality into moments and into goals as well as us also looking in the market to
to try and obviously replace Jessie Gale because it's a hard one to take. It's a disappointing loss. We felt she was developing well with us and obviously Arsenal made a decision to take it to Bristol City and we respect that.
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Chapter 5: How did the team react to being down 2-0 at halftime?
So for me, it's a really difficult one to take. And I think it's going to hurt me. And I said to the players, it's going to hurt them. And I hope it does. I hope this moment resonates and it sticks in our mind. And everything we look to do now is to improve and get better.
once the emotion's gone the dust settle and we look at it we look at moments to grow we look at moments where we've had the positives that we can build upon there are plenty more games there's 10 more games where we can pick up points as you said there's a five point gap between us and Ipswich we obviously want to grow that and we feel we're a team that are moments away from really competing with some of the teams in and around us like Southampton Sheffield Sunderland Durham and now for us it's back to kind of how we stick together and ensure that we can now translate the moments into points because that's what we need is we want to keep making points we want to
We want to start looking up, not keep looking over our shoulder. So 10 games to go, 30 points. How many can we get now?
Time out, Jay. Thank you. Cheers. Thank you.