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"I think the team did a good job and we have to take those good things into the Burnley game. It's a very tough game. Burnley are a very good team who have started the season well. They're playing good football but it will also be tough for them.
"When you're at the bottom of the league every game is important. But it's a long season and we have more than twenty games to go. We will not win all the games but hopefully we will win against Burnley.
"Every day I am learning about the team. I see a lot of things in training as well as during the games. We do have things to improve but what I'm seeing at the moment is good."
All the news from Portsmouth over the last couple of days has been that of the wages not being paid, but that doesn't concern Clarets' boss Owen Coyle. "Portsmouth is my concern on Saturday playing against them, but not overall how they go about their business. My focus is on Burnley Football Club and that's what we concentrate on," he said before leaving for the south coast.
"I have sat and listened about this club's in financial trouble or that club's in financial trouble. We just concern ourselves with Burnley. We are not a club that's paying forty, fifty, sixty thousand pounds a week to players that might put you in that financial situation.
"We concentrate on trying to run our football as well as we can and make a fist of what we've got. I don't think my players have been given enough credit for what they've done and the budget we have tried to work under and we will continue to do that."
Looking ahead to the game he continued: "We like to play open attacking football but we are not sitting with two men at the back and everyone else up front. For a lot of it we have been the architects of our own downfall with making poor decisions in the wrong areas but that won't change our belief in terms of trying to win games.
"The players we have at this football club have been brought here because they are football players and that's what we will continue to do. We will continue to go, home or away, and look to win matches.
"It suits the players I have and certainly suits the style I want to play and we will win games, home or away, and it will be sooner rather than later.
"It's not worked out quite the way we wanted it away from home yet. If you want to get criticised for that, then so be it. But we will be positive about how we go about it.
"If we had gone and parked the bus up and tried to nick a point and lost the game you would get panned for not having a go. We will concentrate on what we are good at. We know what we are good at. That's brought us to this point and we will continue to do that."