Rowett reacts to Oxford's defeat by Portsmouth

Oxford United boss Gary Rowett spoke to BBC Radio Oxford following Saturday's 2-0 Championship defeat by Portsmouth.

Both Pompey goals came in the second half of a game that was stopped for more than 30 minutes because of a medical emergency in the stands at the Kassam Stadium.

"My immediate thoughts are for the supporter who needed the attention. Hopefully he's ok. As a flip side to that, when that happens and the players have to go off the pitch, it becomes a bit of a fractured first half and difficult to create any rhythm or continuity within that," Rowett said.

"Our performance was a little bit too rigid first half, we needed to play with a little bit more freedom in certain areas.

"I thought we got into some really good positions but it's that final pass – it's been creeping in for the last three or four games – to get someone into a goalscoring position just hasn't quite been there.

"We conceded a very poor goal from a set-piece with bodies in the box and we don't deal with, then we had three clear cut chances and should score all three, let alone at least one, and we chase the game at the end and leave ourselves open."