Paul Cook is happy for his team to carry on controlling games - but admits there are deficiencies in the team that are preventing them winning certain home games.
Another home goalless draw - this one against Mansfield - has had some fans questioning how Cook plans to turn Fratton stalemates into victories.
Yet Pompey remain second in the table and picking up points at a rate that if continued, will secure promotion.
Cook told The News: 'We are in control of the game and I want to build a club like that, I want us to play like that going forward. We want to be able to stand against any teams and play good football.
‘We have a few deficiencies in the team now, but people asking are you going to go in the loan market, what for? Let’s try and buy our way out of the league every week! It’s not real. Saturday was disappointing, teams come and do what they do.
‘Mansfield said they were going to come and have a right good go, I don’t particularly think anyone has come and had a right good go, truth be told. We lack that oomph in the box and will keep working away. But that is the nature of the game, the league’s tight, there are a lot of good teams.
‘Oxford lost at home to Barnet on Saturday, everyone has it. Let’s deal with it. We don’t look like being beaten at home and that is the pleasing thing for me, we are what we are. I don’t like the way we give goals away, I want us to be solid and the pleasing thing is when we do score first then you will see more.
‘The hardest part of the game is to have good records at both ends of the pitch. If you look at any team they will be solid at one end and giving goals at the other, we are actually one of the teams who are probably in the top five or six in both. That shows you we’ve had a good start and will keep working on what we are doing.’
Pompey will have another chance to record a home win in the FA Cup - they have been drawn at home to Macclesfield, of the National League the Conference National), in the first round. The game will be played on the weekend of November 7/8.
In the league the Blues go to Notts County on Saturday.
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