Mousinho lambasts 'awful' Portsmouth

John Mousinho led Portsmouth to 16th in the Championship last season following their promotion from League One

Portsmouth manager John Mousinho called his side's performance "awful" as they fell to a 2-0 loss to Sheffield Wednesday.

Barry Bannan's 20-yard free-kick and George Brown's strike from a fast-break capped an unusually flat performance by Pompey who now slip to 12th in the Championship.

"Frustration isn't my overriding emotion, I don't think," Mousinho told BBC Radio Solent. "Frustration would signal that maybe we were in the game, maybe we deserved something, and we didn't.

"We were awful for 90 minutes and got exactly what we deserved... [we tried] to protect against it all week, talking about how difficult the game would be, how we needed to be right on top of ourselves and not let any complacency creep in and it has happened previously.

"We probably had a very similar picture when we beat Leeds at home last year, got ourselves up for the game, and then by the time we returned and played Plymouth on the Wednesday, we lost a game we never should have lost.

"A similar pattern we've followed after a really solid start. We have been trying to protect against that all week, but clearly we haven't managed to do it."