Mousinho happy with improved away showing

John Mousinho's Portsmouth have won only one of 13 away games this season

Portsmouth manager John Mousinho was happy with an improved showing on the road despite falling to a narrow defeat at Sunderland.

The 1-0 loss at the Stadium of Light was a fourth consecutive one on the road, which has included losing 3-0 at Bristol City and 4-0 at Derby County.

Pompey have only won once away this season - at QPR in October - and have collected seven out of a possible 39 points away from home.

That leaves them only outside the bottom three on goals scored, but Mousinho admits that the performance on Wearside was far better than that at Ashton Gate seven days before.

"It was chalk and cheese from the last away performance, much, much better and a huge amount of improvement but some tiny bits to do to make sure we get there," he told BBC Radio Solent.

"I'm really, really positive off the back of that performance. I thought for large parts, we were really good."