Portsmouth vs Leicester City - prediction, team news, lineups

Two relegation rivals volition look disconnected erstwhile Portsmouth invited Leicester City to Fratton Park for Saturday's Championship encounter.

Pompey, who occupy 19th place, person taken a elephantine leap towards information with back-to-back victories, portion the Foxes are languishing successful 23rd spot and successful request of a signicant upturn successful results if they are to debar the drop.

Match preview

Portsmouth were acceptable to decorativeness past Saturday successful the bottommost 3 until Conor Chaplin netted a 97th-minute victor against Middlesbrough astatine the Riverside Stadium.

Just 3 days later, Pompey moved 4 points wide of information with different palmy outing against a promotion-chasing side, Ipswich Town. 

Conor Shaughnessy and Colby Bishop scored successful the closing stages of the archetypal play arsenic Portsmouth ran retired 2-0 winners to seal their archetypal location triumph since January and extremity Ipswich's nine-game unbeaten run.

Having collected 48 points from 42 games, John Mousinho's broadside are present 1 triumph distant from breaking the 50-point barrier, which would much than apt beryllium capable to unafraid a 3rd consecutive play of Championship football.

That said, Mousinho volition beryllium informing his broadside against complacency arsenic Portsmouth hole to big Leicester for the archetypal clip since playing retired a 1-1 gully successful a Championship brushwood successful November 2011. 

In fact, that has been the scoreline successful the past 3 meetings astatine immoderate venue, which has helped Pompey signifier a five-game unbeaten tally successful head-to-head games.

Leicester, who mislaid their entreaty against a six-point deduction earlier this month, are connected the brink of suffering back-to-back relegations aft winning conscionable erstwhile successful their past 16 league games (D6, L8).

Gary Rowett has failed to spark an upturn successful fortunes since helium took implicit the reins successful February, having overseen 1 win, six draws and 3 defeats successful his 10 games successful charge.

The Foxes played retired 3 consecutive draws earlier they fell to a constrictive 1-0 nonaccomplishment successful their astir caller outing against Swansea City. 

Zan Vipotnik's 53rd-minute effort proved capable to condemn Leicester to their sixth decision successful 8 location games, leaving them 5 points adrift from information with conscionable 4 games near to play.

Leicester, who person drawn their past 5 distant games, caput to Fratton Park knowing that lone a triumph volition bash if they are to person a realistic accidental of remaining successful the division, but that volition beryllium easier said than done for a nine that has not won an distant league lucifer since beating Derby connected December 6. 

Their past competitory triumph implicit Portsmouth took spot successful an distant EFL Cup necktie successful September 2010, portion their astir caller league occurrence came via a 3-1 scoreline successful a Premier League brushwood successful May 2004. 

Portsmouth Championship form:

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Leicester City Championship form:

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Team News

Portsmouth are incapable to telephone upon Zak Swanson, Mark Kosznovszky, Josh Murphy and Gustavo Caballero owed to injury.

Midfielder Ebou Adams, who has been sidelined for the past 4 games, is successful a contention against clip to beryllium his fittingness for Saturday's fixture.

Ipswich loanee Conor Chaplin volition instrumentality to the matchday squad aft being ineligible to look his genitor nine successful midweek.

As for the visitors, they are without the antiaircraft trio of Ben Nelson, Caleb Okoli and Victor Kristiansen.

Midfielder Jordan James returned from wounded to diagnostic arsenic a substitute against Swansea, but the Wales planetary is continuing to conflict with a bottommost contented and volition person to beryllium assessed up of the weekend.

It besides remains to beryllium seen whether Aaron Ramsey volition beryllium acceptable to diagnostic successful a matchday squad for the archetypal clip successful 2026.

Portsmouth imaginable starting lineup:

Schmid; Devlin, Poole, Dia, Williams; Pack, Dozzell; Segecic, Chaplin, Alli; Bishop

Leicester City imaginable starting lineup:

Stolarczyk; Pereira, Lascelles, Vestergaard, Thomas; Skipp, Winks; Fatawu, De Cordova-Reid, Mavididi; Daka 

We say: Portsmouth 1-1 Leicester City

Portsmouth volition beryllium afloat of assurance aft claiming back-to-back wins, but that whitethorn beryllium feeling the effects of those exploits arsenic they hole for their 3rd crippled successful a week.

As a result, Pompey whitethorn deficiency the strength required to assertion each the spoils, but we deliberation they volition bash capable to forestall Leicester from claiming a much-needed victory. 

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