Portsmouth vs Blackburn Rovers - prediction, team news, lineups

Portsmouth volition look to marque it 3 consecutive games without decision erstwhile they play big to Blackburn Rovers successful Saturday's Championship encounter.

Blackburn, meanwhile, are targeting back-to-back wins aft getting the amended of Millwall past clip out. 

Match preview

Portsmouth presently inhabit 18th spot successful the Championship table aft mustering 7 points from their archetypal six matches.

John Mousinho's broadside person shown signs of encouragement with a four-point instrumentality from their past 2 outings, including maximum spoils from their 2-0 location triumph against Cardiff City connected September 5.

Pompey produced different beardown antiaircraft show successful past Saturday's goalless gully against Charlton Athletic, which represented their archetypal distant cleanable expanse of the season.

That said, they person failed to people successful 2 of their past 3 outings, highlighting an country for betterment successful their last lucifer earlier adjacent month's highly anticipated South Coast derby against bitter rivals Southampton astatine St Mary's.

They tin instrumentality assurance from the information they person taken 7 points from their past 3 league games against Blackburn since losing 3-0 astatine Ewood Park successful January 2025. 

Six of those points came from their past 2 location meetings, including a 2-1 occurrence successful the astir caller brushwood astatine Fratton Park successful December. 

Blackburn, meanwhile, are sitting successful 16th spot aft taking 8 points from their 7 Championship outings. 

Tony Mowbray's charges ended a four-game winless league tally with a 3-1 triumph implicit Millwall astatine Ewood Park past Saturday.

Oladapo Afolayan netted a brace alongside Andri Gudjohnsen arsenic Rovers claimed their 2nd triumph of the Championship season. 

Blackburn volition present look to grounds for conscionable the 2nd clip successful 2026, though that volition beryllium a hard task for a squad that has mustered conscionable 2 points from 3 league roadworthy trips this word (D2, L1).

As a effect of their aboriginal struggles connected the road, they caput into the play arsenic 1 of 7 teams yet to triumph a Championship distant crippled this season. 

They person besides not won astatine Fratton Park since picking up a 2-1 triumph successful a League One brushwood successful February 2018. 

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Team News

Portsmouth's wounded database contains Conor Ogilvie, Mark Kosznoszky, Franco Umeh, Keshi Anderson, Luke Brooke-Smith, Josh Murphy and Thomas Waddingham.

Striker Marko Milovanovic faces a contention against clip to retrieve from a calf wounded that kept him retired of the gully against Charlton.

If helium is incapable to feature, Tyrese Shade could vacate his left-wing presumption to run arsenic the centre-forward, which would unfastened the doorway for Ryan Kavuma-McQueen to travel into the side. 

As for Rovers, Yuri Ribeiro is improbable to diagnostic aft being forced disconnected with a hamstring contented successful the aboriginal stages of past Saturday's triumph implicit Millwall.

Ribeiro joins an absentee database made up of Scott Wharton, Matty Litherland, Lewis Miller, Augustus Kargbo and Yuki Ohashi. 

Ryan Alebiosu, who has been struggling with illness, is hoping to beryllium his fittingness successful clip for the travel to Fratton Park. 

Portsmouth imaginable starting lineup:

Bielica; Devlin, Arthur, Shaughnessy, Meghoma; Pack, Shein; Kamara, Segecic, Kavuma-McQueen; Shade

Blackburn Rovers imaginable starting lineup:

Toth; Alebiosu, Atcheson, Carter, McLoughlin, Pickering; Morishita, Morsy, Montgomery, Afolayan; Cantwell

We say: Portsmouth 2-1 Blackburn Rovers

Portsmouth person won their past 2 location games against Blackburn, and aft beating Cardiff successful their astir caller outing astatine Fratton Park, we deliberation they volition nutrient different beardown show successful beforehand of their supporters to assertion a constrictive victory. 

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