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Pompey aim to bounce back from defeat at Leyton Orient tonight.

A place in the second round of the EFL Trophy is up for grabs at Brisbane Road.

Expect changes aplenty against the O’s as we build-up to kick-off in east London before the team news drops at 6pm.

Then it’s more talking points before the action gets underway against Richie Wellens’ side at 7pm.

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With Pompey selling aroung 1,000 tickets for this Trophy tie in east London there’s every chance we’ll see more away fans than home fans at Brisbane Road tonight.

Pompey team news reaction

Ringing the changes

Eleven changes, Denver Hume in from the cold and a #Pompey start for Hayling Island’s Harry Jewitt-White at Leyton Orient.

Eleven changes from Sunday - here’s the Pompey line-up

Ryan Schofield

Zak Swanson

Schofield; Swanson, Raggett, Towler, Hume; Jewitt-White, Stevenson; Whyte, Saydee, Kamara; Yengi

Subs: Norris, Rafferty, Shaughnessy, Devlin, Aston, Folarin, Mottoh.

Team news in 15 minutes - can expect probabaly 11 changes from Sunday.

In place at Brisbane Road

A steady hand on the tiller

John Mousinho insists there should be no ‘overreaction’ to Pompey’s dismal FA Cup exit.

The Blues suffered a rare defeat when they went down 1-0 at non-league Chesterfield on Sunday amid a poor performance.

In terms of 90-minute matches, it represented their first loss in all competitions since March, spanning 31 fixtures.

Their only other defeat during that period came via a Carabao Cup penalty shoot-out with Peterborough in August having drawn 1-1.

And despite Sunday’s disappointment, Mousinho has pledged not to get carried away as the Blues bid to bounce back at Leyton Orient in the Bristol Street Motors Trophy on Tuesday night (7pm).

He told The News: ‘I don’t think there’s any point in overreacting.

‘We don’t overreact when we win games, we want to try to stay nice and calm and composed, so why do anything differently when we lose?

‘Losing games has been few and far between, we haven’t lost one inside 90 minutes since March, so I don’t think there’s any point in overreacting. The acid test for the lads is how they react to this – and the biggest thing for us is the league and EFL Trophy.

‘I didn’t have to say a huge amount to the group afterwards. I was massively disappointed, but they know what’s gone wrong, they were not pleased with their own performance.

‘If we are losing games week in, week out, then we’ll have a proper examination of what’s going wrong. We do that anyway to make sure there’s nothing we’ve missed.

‘When you lose once in 31 games (within 90 minutes), it isn’t the end of the world. If you perform like that consistently, of course you’re going to be punished, so we have to make sure we sharpen up in a few areas and come back strongly at Leyton Orient.

‘No disrespect to the FA Cup, we went there with a full-strength side, so you could see how we respect the competition, but if we’re going to lose a game, this was the one.’

Despite Mousinho’s refusal to dwell on that Chesterfield result, he remains unhappy over that Pompey display.

He added: ‘One of the things I saw after about a minute of the second half was Michael Jacobs run past six players and waltz in our box, that’s just not good enough, we can’t have it.

‘It happened time and time again, it felt at times we were getting overrun, and we must do better.’

Here’s how we think Pompey will line up tonight

Good evening from Brisbane Road

Pompey aim to bounce back from defeat at Leyton Orient tonight.

A place in the second round of the EFL Trophy is up for grabs at Brisbane Road.

Expect changes aplenty against the O’s as we build-up to kick-off in east London before the team news drops at 6pm.

Then it’s more talking points before the action gets underway against Richie Wellens’ side at 7pm.

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