Pompey slipped to 17th in League Two with a 1-0 defeat at Newport County - but boss Andy Awford was adamant they didn't get what they deserved.

Mark Byrne scored the only goal midway through the second half and the Blues were convinced it should have been ruled out for offside, with Aaron O'Connor lurking in an offside position close to keeper Paul Jones and almost totouching the shot past him.

It extended Pompey's winless run to six and they are without an away victory in the league since August.

Awford said: 'It's difficult to take. I'm as honest as the day is long and if the players don't do enough they get a kick up the backside, but they did enough. I've got to be careful what I say because I don't want to get fined, but we've been done by something out of our hands and that is disappointing.

'There should have been two penalties for us. The first on Jed Wallace looks a stonewall penalty and there was a handball late on. At the time I thought it was handball and seven or eight of our boys are appealing for it, and that looked stonewall as well. We deserved something today.

'We had 17 shots compared to their eight, but you don't always get what you deserve and today we didn't.'

Pompey now need to rake in some points in back-to-back home games, with Burton and Southend visiting Fratton on the next two Saturdays.

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