Assistant manager Mark Bowen believes Stoke
can provide the ideal platform for on-loan
Chelsea winger Victor Moses to rediscover his
talent.
The Nigeria international put in a man-of-the-
match performance on his Potters debut as Jon
Walters (two) and Peter Crouch scored the goals
which defeated League Two Portsmouth 3-0 in
the Capital One Cup to set up a third-round trip
to Sunderland.
Moses is on his second loan spell in successive
seasons after a less-than-productive campaign at
Liverpool but Bowen thinks the Britannia Stadium
could be a place for him to reinvigorate himself.
"At the moment he is 99 per cent Premier League
match fit and he tired a little bit in the second
half and we brought him off to protect him," said
the Welshman.
"With all due respect to Portsmouth he is used to
playing against top-class defenders and causing
them problems so it was maybe a tad easier for
him tonight but he showed what he has got and
always had - and he just needs that platform.
"Mark (Hughes) wants to give him that chance to
get used to playing every week.
"When players go a couple of years of not playing
every week they have to get used to that
monotony of training every day to get ready for
the games.
"It is no good for a player of his ability to just
have cameo performances and hopefully we can
give him the platform to do that this year."
It was a first defeat of the season for Portsmouth,
flying high in League Two, and manager Andy
Awford urged his players to take something from
the experience.
"I thought our lads acquitted themselves well but
there was obviously a difference in quality," he
said.
"We've still lot and you don't like losing. You
want to give a good account of yourselves
against a well-established Premier League side.
"One of the things I've said to the players is
remember the losing feeling because we've not
had it since I've been here."

good for him! Hope he finds his form there.

Happy for him, that is the Moses i watch in nation Cup.

I remember when Portsmouth was Portsmouth....Harry was the manager, they had Diarra, Kanu, Utaka, Muntari, Papa Diop, David James, Matt Taylor, Benjani,Distin.....