Portsmouth manager John Mousinho says his side put in a "really strong performance" in the 3-1 win over Charlton at The Valley on Tuesday night.
"Delighted with the result and we matched it with a really good performance," Mousinho told BBC Radio Solent.
"Take the opening minute or so out of it when Nico saved us - it's easy to forget that when you come away with an important away victory, you look at that and it was just a moment of us being lax defensively but then I think that maybe sharpened us up a bit.
"After that, I thought for 55 minutes we were excellent, fully deserved the lead, came out in the second half and Charlton make three changes, you might expect a different game.
"But we came out, fully deserved to get the third goal and it went a bit crazy after that.
"We made a few very strange decisions after that which we hadn't made but the fact we saw the game out in difficult circumstances is really pleasing."