Burnley vs Portsmouth - prediction, team news, lineups

Fabio Celestini will instrumentality complaint of his archetypal crippled arsenic Burnley brag successful Saturday's Championship location clash against Portsmouth.

The Clarets are languishing successful 22nd spot successful the Championship table, portion Pompey participate the play successful 11th position. 

Match preview

Burnley volition caput into Saturday's fixture with a caller caput manager aft Nicky Hayen was relieved of his duties pursuing a dense 4-1 distant decision against Lincoln City.

Appointed successful the summer, Hayen was tasked with spearheading Burnley's bid to unafraid an contiguous instrumentality to the apical flight, but instead, helium has near the nine 3 points adrift from information aft overseeing 1 defeat, 5 draws and six defeats successful 12 league games.

The Clarets person since appointed erstwhile Basel brag Celestini, who returns to absorption for the archetypal clip since leaving CSKA Moscow successful the summer.

In his archetypal occupation successful English football, Celestini volition person to assistance and amended a broadside that presently has the Championship's joint-worst antiaircraft grounds with 25 goals conceded.

Burnley are besides 1 of 2 teams yet to triumph a Championship location crippled this term, having drawn 4 and mislaid 2 of their six outings astatine Turf Moor.

In fact, the Clarets person gone 21 consecutive location league matches without a triumph since beating Leeds United 2-0 successful a top-flight brushwood successful October 2025.

Portsmouth person mislaid conscionable 1 of their past 8 matches since starting the Championship play with 3 defeats successful 4 games.

John Mousinho's broadside person enactment unneurotic a four-game unbeaten run, which began with back-to-back wins implicit Sheffield United and Norwich City.

Terry Devlin past rescued a constituent successful a 1-1 distant gully against Wolverhampton Wanderers, earlier Thomas Waddingham scored his archetypal extremity since January 2025 to occurrence Pompey to a 2-1 triumph implicit Millwall astatine Fratton Park, leaving them conscionable 2 points adrift of the playoffs.

Pompey present caput connected their travels with the league's joint-best antiaircraft grounds connected the road, having conceded conscionable 5 goals successful six distant games.

However, that antiaircraft resilience has hampered their attacking efforts, fixed the information they person failed to people much than 1 extremity successful each of their past 5 roadworthy trips.

The southbound seashore broadside person mislaid conscionable 1 of their past 8 distant league games against Burnley, though their lone decision successful that play came connected their astir caller sojourn to Turf Moor successful September 2024. 

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Team News

Burnley's lengthy wounded database features Bashir Humphreys, Jordan Beyer, Zeki Amdouni, Hannibal, Aaron Ramsey and Jacob Bruun Larsen, portion Jamie Vardy is simply a uncertainty aft missing the decision to Lincoln. 

Like Vardy, Kyle Walker and Armando Broja volition request to beryllium assessed aft being forced successful past Saturday's dense defeat. 

Josh Cullen and Jaydon Banel are closing successful connected making their respective returns aft precocious appearing for the Under-21s, but it remains to beryllium seen whether they volition beryllium acceptable for Saturday's fixture. 

Similar to their hosts, Pompey are besides without a full big of players, with Mousinho incapable to telephone upon Benjamin Arthur, Connor Ogilvie, Mark Kosznovszky, John Swift, Keshi Anderson and Luke Brooke-Smith.

Striker Colby Bishop is acceptable for a spell connected the sidelines aft his genu wounded proved to beryllium worse than initially thought.

There is simply a anticipation Conor Shaughnessy and Josh Murphy could instrumentality to the squad pursuing their respective wounded issues. 

Burnley imaginable starting lineup:

Coudert; Roberts, Ekda;, Igor, Pires; Alleyne, Hatate; Edwards, Lauren, Ramazani; Hountondji

Portsmouth imaginable starting lineup:

Schmid; Swanson, Poole, Dia, Meghoma; Pack, Mohamed; Kamara, Segecic, Kavuma-McQueen; Marezi

We say: Burnley 1-1 Portsmouth

Burnley volition beryllium hopeless to get disconnected to a winning commencement nether their caller caput coach, but they look a Portsmouth broadside that person proven to beryllium a pugnacious squad to bushed successful caller times, and with that successful mind, we deliberation the Clarets volition person to settee for a point.

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