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Gustavo Caballero, his debut at Fratton Park, left John Massino absolutely purring.
I really liked lots of what I saw there with Gus. He showed some real positivity considering it was his first start, chucking him into such a difficult, hostile atmosphere. To be fair to Gus, he's used to it. He's played in Paraguay, he's played in Brazil, where football is everything. So coming over here, he's slotted in really well.
How did Gustavo Caballero perform in his debut at Fratton Park?
He showed some really bright sparks, and there's plenty more to come from him. He didn't play on Saturday. But we obviously trust him, we trust all of the players, it's just in certain moments we turn to certain players and off the back of last night Gus will get into it. At Charlton he was a threat in terms of that outlet on the right-hand side, he worked really hard, kept himself going with the press. He hasn't played since the back end of January. He's played 45 minutes here and 45 minutes there for Santos, but he wasn't a regular starter, and he provided that threat for us going forward. He set up the second goal, just being direct on crossing the ball, it's something on the right-hand side we haven't had, that directness.
So I'm really happy with that.
It'll be interesting to see team selection on Saturday against Millwall because if Segecic is once again fully available and also he is very happy with Gustavo Caballero out wide, perhaps Segecic is going to be able to move inside a position that he himself has said he prefers, but he'll play right wing if that's where we need him to play. But he's got two choices there. John Massino and that must provide him with a little crumb of comfort in these very hard times with injuries.
Pompey have confirmed that ever-present midfielder Andre Dizel will not be fit again in the short term. Dizel, who was injured in an apparently innocuous clash with Patrick Bamford in the Sheffield United game, initially wanted to carry on after treatment, but after limping for five minutes found himself unable to walk the injury off and so left the field. There are reports that he went home wearing a surgical boot. John Messinio says the club are unable to provide further details about the nature of Dozell's injury but that investigations are ongoing. There's better news about the injury to Adrian Segacic who also came off during the same game having taken a knock. Fears that he may have to miss upcoming games were scotched when it was announced that he was on the subs bench for the Charlton game, although in the event he wasn't called upon.
So good news about Segs but not so good news about Doz. it's testament isn't it testimony to the fact that he wants to be on the pitch he wants to play he wants to keep his place he wants to keep the trajectory of his career which has gone from strength to strength at Pompey going that he decided he was okay to run it off it's such an unscientific way forward isn't it after an injury I think I'll be able to run it off Sometimes players go down clutching their knees. When they haven't got the foul, they get up and don't even pretend to be injured. With Dezell, it was the other way around. He was injured, but he insisted on staying on. He insists, I'm guessing, he said, look, I can run it off. It's just a tweak.
I can run it off. And he couldn't, because as he ran back into the game, having had treatment on the pitch, he was clearly limping. All around us, we were saying the same thing. He still hurts. He's not much good to the side limping like that, we were saying. And then we caught sight of him a few minutes later and he still clearly wasn't right. So he did the right thing to come off. But here's the question. It's a $64,000 question. Has he exacerbated, made worse that injury by being heavily involved or possibly taking the decision himself that he would be okay to run it off? So that's the first thing. Second thing is, does this mean that we now have 15 players unable to pick because of injury? It was 14 going into the game.
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