Cardiff City interim manager Omer Riza:
“The boys started really well with a lot of confidence coming off the back of Saturday. The first half was excellent and we could have had a couple more goals.
“Second half we lost a little bit of control of the game. That’s something for us to work on, to not allow the opposition to cause us the problems they did.
“We got a little bit tired which is to be expected after the Saturday game. We didn’t concede a goal, which is a positive, but I would have liked a bit more control.”
Portsmouth manager John Mousinho:
“It was a really, really poor performance. The biggest disappointment for me was the slow start. We start sluggishly, don’t switch on from a throw-in, allow a cross into the box and put the ball into our own net.
“When you do that against a side like Cardiff, who are a really good side, who’ve come away from here with a 5-0 win on Saturday, confidence is really high. The way we have to approach the game in the first 10-15 minutes is completely different to how we actually did.
“At 2-0 down, it’s too difficult to get back into these kind of games against sides as good as this. The basics just weren’t good enough.”