Chapter 1: What are the latest updates from Pompey?
The latest Pompey news updates every day from the Pompey Sound News Desk. Derby boss John Eustace has been telling journalists about his side's expectations, but first reminding listeners that he's a big fan of Pompey. He told BBC Radio Derby, Every game is very, very difficult. I think that's been proven in the Championship already. Portsmouth are a really exciting team.
I've seen the last three or four games and they play an exciting brand of football. John's doing a great job there, he coaches the team very very well so we know it's going to be a really difficult game on Saturday.
Chapter 2: What does Derby boss John Eustace say about Pompey's performance?
When you look at the home results we could have had two or three more victories. Over the course of the season it will level itself out. I've been happy overall with the home performances, we haven't won as many, of course we haven't. But over the course of the season I'm confident we will get some more victories.
Certainly not for myself, different pressures of playing at home, the players who are playing in front of 30,000 at home, there's big expectations I suppose. But that's what we're here for, that's what the players get paid for, and that's why we get paid to coach. I don't think there's been any terrible games at home where we haven't been competitive, even the Leicester game.
If we had scored the second, we could have got a third or fourth. The most important thing for me is, over the course of the season we get judged on our home and away form, and we'll see where we end up. Derby coach John Eustace is of course a distinguished and highly respected footballing figure. Had a good playing career, a very solid playing career.
One or two injuries earlier in his career kept him out of the Birmingham first team because he was a Birmingham youngster, Birmingham born youngster.
Birmingham youngster from the age of about seven but then he managed 393 appearances for clubs as distinguished and solid as Coventry Stoke and Watford the Coventry seasons three of them were spent in the Premier League so he's played football at the very highest level a central midfielder who could do it all was very professional very reliable you wouldn't want to face him every week
And then he moved into management, had to take his coaching badges and had to start at the bottom and work his way up, which is what he's pretty much done. Starting out with Kidderminster Harriers and then ending up at the club that he played for on 48 occasions, scored two goals, Derby County, 2013 to 2015. And now he's been managing them. Well, not for long, but he's a good guy.
He rates our manager. He's got nice things to say about the way we play football. We like him. But not enough not to want to beat him on Saturday.
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Chapter 3: How is John Eustace's coaching impacting Derby's expectations?
Numerous news sites and sports agencies have seized on the story linking Minhoc Yang's possible links to Real Madrid. Here's what the Spurs web is saying. Portsmouth boss John Mazzino has revealed what he has heard from Tottenham Hotspur about Yang Minhoc's future, amidst speculation linking him with a move to Real Madrid.
Yang has been a live wire down the wings for Pompey this season, with the 19-year-old looking more and more at home in English football with each passing game. His exploits have not gone unnoticed across Europe, with one of the biggest clubs in the Contient reportedly expressing interest.
It was reported in Spain earlier this week that Real Madrid are plotting a shock £6.1m move for Yang in January, with Los Blancos impressed by his potential. Messina has now admitted that he has seen the speculation linking the South Korean with a move to the Santiago Bernabeu.
He revealed that Tottenham Hotspur do have the option to recall the winger from Fratton Park in January but insisted that the North London club have not given any indications they are going to cut short his loan. When asked about the rumours over Yang's future, the Portsmouth boss told reporters, I've heard the story about Real Madrid, but there's nothing I've heard from Tottenham or Real Madrid.
I think Minhock will be here for the rest of the season. Spurs have a recall, as most of these loan contracts. Spurs have a recall if they want to recall him. I think he's been a really bright spark in a lot of the performances we've had, particularly in the early part of the season. At times you have probably seen what you can sometimes expect from young players.
But as a 19-year-old coming into a struggling side, he has done very well. He will be staying until the end of the season. We asked Steve Bone on his show, his podcast, which is widely available. If you want to listen to the Steve Bone podcast, then go to Pompey Sound Podcasts on your podcast provider and look for the one, the podcast entitled. It begins with the letter.
S for Steve, and I think today it's highlighting the fact that Steve thinks we may have turned the corner at Pompey. But back to the Yang story, I asked Steve when he could last remember the possibility that someone representing Real Madrid were sitting in the Fratton Park stand watching somebody wearing a blue shirt, and he said, I think you've got to go back to the days of...
Harry Redknapp for that, and of course he's absolutely right. It's such a good talking point, the story linking the South Korean 19-year-old with Real Madrid.
It keeps interest in him alive across Asia, where they have high hopes, of course, that he is going to be the next Asian representative to crack things, either in the Premier League or, if there's any truth in this rumour and it comes to anything...
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Chapter 4: What are the challenges faced by Derby's players at home?
la liga it doesn't do his reputation any harm it gets him big pieces in the sports pages and on the sports websites so his name is up there in lights a lot of how it affects him depends on him as an individual and how the people around him because he will be talking to people at spurs all the time and of course his own agent and agencies how they handle him
and how they managed to get the best out of him because of this gossip, this rumour, rumours that are now circulating, and actually, if anything, strengthening slightly, and it does make some sense. the possibility that he could be the kind of player who could be brought on by playing Spanish football. So, you know, it's not without shades of possibility, put it like that.
But how will it affect him? He's 19. If he's a solid, level-headed guy who's getting good advice, it's going to make him an even more confident player. And confidence is very important if you play where he plays and you try to do what he does well. which is to risk it by taking his opponents on and shooting when the opportunity arrives.
And when he arrived, it was clear that he is very good at shooting. We just haven't seen that much of it more recently. So it could do him the power of good.
lesser folks of course it could throw them off balance it could change their direction some people get swollen headed it's been known to happen somehow one feels that that's not a danger for him because i suspect he's been groomed as a potential big timer for a long time and looking after what's going on between his ears is at least as important as what's going on down at the ground involving his feet
Distinguished sports journalist Steve Bone, check out his page in Pompey's Matchday programme and don't miss his weekly podcast on Pompey Sound, was asked by Pompey Sound's Tommy Boyd what he thought of the unanimous predictions of football experts across the board that Pompey will lose to Derby. That's cheered us all up. That's nice.
I mean, I can see why they're saying that, because we're so inconsistent. Do you know the last time we won two games in a row? Ooh. There's a, you know, given that Christmas is coming up, there is a religious festival. 1984? I don't know. It's not quite that bad. Easter. It was Easter. If you remember, we won at Norwich on Good Friday and B Watford on the Easter Monday.
So given that that was Easter and now we're at Christmas, maybe we'll do it again. I just hope, you know, you went away from that Blackburn game last week thinking that was great. Big win. Much needed. We just need to build on it. You think back to the Millwall game three weeks earlier. We went away with the same thought after that.
thinking now can we just go and grind something out of Sheffield United no we didn't we couldn't it was terrible and we lost at home the following Saturday this time it would be nice and I was looking back at our previous wins this season we've only had one a month so it didn't take long after two of our previous three home wins, we followed it up with a good solid away point.
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