Charlton Athletic vs Portsmouth - prediction, team news, lineups

Portsmouth volition beryllium targeting a 2nd consecutive triumph erstwhile they question to the Valley for Saturday's Championship clash with Charlton Athletic. 

Pompey volition caput into the play successful 17th spot, portion the Addicks are 5 points amended disconnected successful 5th presumption successful the Championship table. 

Match preview

Charlton made an awesome commencement to their 2nd consecutive Championship season, signaling 3 consecutive victories against Derby County, West Ham United and Preston North End.

The Addicks person since experienced a nonaccomplishment of momentum, having taken conscionable 2 points from their past 3 outings.

After playing retired a 1-1 gully against West Bromwich Albion, Charlton went connected to concede 4 first-half goals successful a dense 4-0 distant decision to Nathan Jones's erstwhile broadside Stoke City.

Jones's charges produced a stronger antiaircraft show successful Wednesday's goalless gully against Queens Park Rangers, leaving them successful 5th spot and 2 points adrift of aboriginal gait setters West Brom.

While Charlton extended their unbeaten location grounds to 3 matches (W2, D1), Jones would have been frustrated that his squad failed to registry a azygous changeable connected people against the R's, thing helium volition privation to code up of Saturday's location clash against Portsmouth.

The Addicks are aiming to grounds their archetypal triumph implicit the southbound seashore since moving retired 3-1 winners astatine Fratton Park successful January 2023.

In opposition to Charlton, Portsmouth person had a afloat week to hole for Saturday's distant travel pursuing the determination to propulsion backmost their distant gathering with Wolverhampton Wanderers from its archetypal day of September 9.

That has allowed Pompey plentifulness of clip to bespeak upon past Saturday's much-needed 2-0 triumph implicit newly-promoted Cardiff City. 

Conor Shaughnessy and Marezi some got connected the scoresheet arsenic Pompey bounced backmost from consecutive defeats to Bristol City and Derby County.

The effect besides ended their hold for a archetypal location triumph of the play for the 3rd clip of asking, taking their tally to six points from their opening 5 games.

Portsmouth volition beryllium hopeful astir their chances of taking a affirmative effect from Saturday's distant trip, having avoided decision successful each of their past 4 meetings with Charlton, including a league treble successful the 2025-26 campaign.

The 2nd of past season's victories took spot astatine The Valley successful February erstwhile Terry Devlin scored a brace successful a 3-1 triumph for John Mousinho's side.

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Team News

Charlton are expected to beryllium without Will Mannion, Collins Sichenje, Nathaniel Chalobah, Billy Koumetio and Kayne Ramsay owed to injury.

Josh Edwards and Charlie Kelman are adjacent to returning to the first-team fold, though Saturday's fixture volition apt travel excessively soon for the pair.

Defender Danny McNamara is disposable for enactment aft serving a one-match prohibition pursuing his dismissal successful past weekend's decision to Stoke.

As for Portsmouth, they stay without Conor Ogilvie, Mark Kosznovszky, Keshi Anderson, Franco Umeh and Thomas Waddingham. 

Summer signing Luke Brooke-Smith is astatine hazard of missing the remainder of the play aft sustaining a superior ankle wounded successful training. 

Jayden Meghoma and Tyrese Shade could clasp their spots successful the broadside aft impressing connected their Pompey debuts past weekend. 

Charlton Athletic imaginable starting lineup:

Okonkwo; McNamara, Jones, Bindon, Bell; Coventry, Skipp; Alli, Grant, Campbell; Leaburn

Portsmouth imaginable starting lineup:

Bielica; Devlin, Arthur, Shaughnessy, Meghoma; Pack, Shein; Kamara, Segecic, Shade; Marezi

We say: Charlton Athletic 1-2 Portsmouth

Portsmouth volition person a renewed consciousness of content aft their triumph implicit Cardiff, and considering they bushed Charlton successful location and distant fixtures past term, we deliberation they volition marque it 3 consecutive head-to-head victories with a constrictive win. 

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