Portsmouth vs Stoke City - prediction, team news, lineups

Two in-form sides volition look disconnected erstwhile Portsmouth invited Stoke City to Fratton Park for Saturday's Championship encounter. 

Pompey caput into the play successful 10th presumption successful the Championship table, portion the Potters are successful 3rd spot and a constituent adrift of automatic promotion. 

Match preview

Portsmouth stock the league's existent longest unbeaten tally with rivals Southampton aft winning 4 and drafting 2 of their past six matches.

Pompey continued their awesome tally of signifier with a melodramatic 3-1 triumph implicit promotion hopefuls Swansea successful Tuesday's clash astatine Fratton Park.

After seeing his opener cancelled retired by Zan Vipotnik's 85th-minute penalty, Terry Devlin enactment his squad backmost successful beforehand successful the 2nd infinitesimal of stoppage time, soon earlier Thomas Waddingham netted successful a 2nd consecutive location crippled to wrapper up each 3 points.

As a result, Pompey, who person battled relegation successful the past 2 seasons, are sitting conscionable 1 constituent adrift from the apical 8 and 4 points distant from automatic promotion, sparking dreams of ending their 16-year hold for Premier League football.

They volition spell into Saturday's fixture with hopes of signaling 4 consecutive location league wins for the archetypal clip since January 2025. 

The 4th triumph connected that juncture came via a 2-1 scoreline against Stoke, which whitethorn beryllium a bully omen arsenic they look to widen their five-game unbeaten location streak.

Stoke, meanwhile, person mislaid conscionable 1 of their past 11 Championship outings, representing a important betterment from starting the run with 3 consecutive league defeats.

In fact, they person won 3 of their past 4 outings since suffering their astir caller nonaccomplishment successful a location clash against Middlesbrough past month.

The Potters recorded cleanable sheets successful wins against Derby County and Preston North End, either broadside of a goalless gully against Preston North End.

Mark Robins's broadside missed retired connected a 4th consecutive cleanable expanse successful their midweek distant clash against Blackburn Rovers, but crucially they near Ewood Park with each 3 points aft claiming a 2-1 triumph acknowledgment to a Jack McGlynn effort and an ain goal.

That effect represented a 4th consecutive triumph connected the roadworthy and made it 5 consecutive distant games without decision since losing to Wolverhampton Wanderers astatine the extremity of August.

The Potters enjoyed occurrence connected their past travel to Fratton Park successful October 2025, erstwhile a 70th-minute ain extremity proved capable to occurrence them to a 1-0 victory. 

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Team News

Portsmouth stay without Benjamin Arthur, Connor Ogilvie, Mark Kosznovszky, John Swift, Luke Brooke-Smith, Keshi Anderson and Colby Bishop.

Striker Marko Milovanovic has been ruled retired of Saturday’s contention aft helium pulled up with a quad contented successful the 2nd fractional against Swansea.

Midfielder Ilyas Mohamed was besides forced disconnected with a calf contented successful Tuesday’s win, and portion it is believed to beryllium a insignificant problem, it is unclear whether helium volition beryllium acceptable for the weekend.

As for the Potters, they caput to Fratton Park without the injured trio of Eric Bocat, Lamine Cisse and Ato Ampah. 

Aaron Cresswell and Sam Gallagher are connected the verge of returning from injury, but it remains to beryllium seen whether they volition beryllium their fittingness successful clip for Saturday’s distant trip.

One certainty is that midfielder Ethan Galbraith volition instrumentality to the fold aft serving a one-match prohibition for an accumulation of yellowish cards.

Portsmouth imaginable starting lineup:

Schmid; Devlin, Poole, Dia, Meghoma; Pack, Adams; Segecic, Bailey, Kavuma-McQueen; Shade

Stoke City imaginable starting lineup:

Johansson; Wilmot, Lawal, Graham; Johnson, Soumare, Galbraith, Bombino; McGlynn, Devenny, Bozenik

We say: Portsmouth 1-1 Stoke City

Brimming with confidence, Portsmouth and Stoke volition some fancy their chances of claiming the spoils this weekend, but with some teams proving pugnacious to beat, we deliberation they could cancel 1 different retired successful a people draw. 

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