Stoke City vs Portsmouth - prediction, team news, lineups

Stoke volition play their last location crippled of the play erstwhile they invited Portsmouth to the Bet365 Stadium connected Saturday.

The Potters caput into the play successful 17th position, portion Pompey are 4 points adrift successful 20th spot in the Championship table. 

Match preview

Stoke are connected people for an eighth consecutive bottom-half decorativeness successful the Championship aft mustering 55 points from their 44 league games this season.

The Potters were sitting successful 2nd spot aft 17 league matches, but a instrumentality of 25 points from their past 27 games has seen them descent down the standings.

In fact, they person taken conscionable 1 constituent from their erstwhile 4 outings since beating Sheffield Wednesday 2-0 astatine the commencement of the month.

Mark Robins's broadside suffered consecutive distant defeats against Derby County and Wrexham, either broadside of a 1-1 gully astatine location to Blackburn Rovers, earlier they were comfortably beaten successful Tuesday's gathering with promotion hopefuls Millwall.

A Caleb Taylor ain extremity proved to beryllium the brightest constituent of a 3-1 defeat astatine the Bet365 Stadium, which brought an extremity to a six-game unbeaten location tally (W3, D3).

As they present hole for their last location outing of the 2025-26 campaign, the Potters tin instrumentality assurance from the information they person won each of their past 3 meetings with Portsmouth astatine the Bet365 Stadium, including a resounding 6-1 triumph successful their astir caller location brushwood successful October 2024.

Portsmouth, meanwhile, person secured a 3rd consecutive play successful the 2nd tier contempt falling to a dense defeat successful Tuesday's distant clash against Coventry City.

Pompey moved to the brink of information with 3 consecutive victories implicit Middlesbrough, Ipswich Town and Leicester City.

However, they were incapable to proceed that tally successful Tuesday's travel to the Coventry Building Society Arena, wherever Adrian Segecic scored Portsmouth's lone extremity successful a 5-1 nonaccomplishment that ended the club's five-game unbeaten run. 

Crucially, Oxford United's decision to Wrexham connected Tuesday sealed Portsmouth's survival, allowing the Pompey fans to observe with the Coventry faithful, who sealed the league rubric with an emphatic triumph implicit John Mousinho's side.

Pompey's hopes of avoiding different decision connected Saturday whitethorn beryllium tempered by the information they person mislaid 5 of their erstwhile six competitory matches against Stoke, including a 1-0 nonaccomplishment successful October's reverse fixture.

In fact, they person gone 8 head-to-head distant games without a triumph since claiming a 2-0 triumph astatine the Victoria Ground successful February 1995. 

Stoke City Championship form:

L W L D L L 

Portsmouth Championship form:

D D W W W L

Team News

Stoke are incapable to telephone upon Aaron Cresswell and Bosun Lawal aft the brace were forced with wounded issues successful past Saturday’s decision to Wrexham.

The Potters are besides stay without Viktor Johansson, Junior Tchamadeu, Ben Gibson, Ben Wilmot, Maksym Talovierov and Tomas Rigo.

Ben Pearson and Sam Gallagher could travel into Robins's reasoning if helium opts to freshen up his lineup for the last location outing of the season.

Meanwhile, Mousinho is without the attacking trio of Keshi Anderson, Gustavo Caballero and Franco Umeh owed to injury.

Pompey’s absentee database besides features Mark Kosznovszky, Zak Swanson and the club’s Player of the season, Terry Devlin.

Captain Marlon Pack is apt to instrumentality to the starting lineup aft dropping down to the seat for Tuesday’s dense nonaccomplishment to Coventry.

Stoke City imaginable starting lineup:

Bazunu; Agina, Phillips, Otegbayo, Bocat; Pearson, Seko; Manhoef, Baker, Thomas; Gallagher

Portsmouth imaginable starting lineup:

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

We say: Stoke City 3-1 Portsmouth

Portsmouth enactment important vigor into claiming 3 consecutive victories, truthful it was not excessively astonishing to spot a drop-off successful strength successful midweek.

They whitethorn conflict to determination backmost done the gears present that information is secured, and fixed their mediocre grounds distant astatine Stoke, we deliberation each the signs constituent to a location triumph connected Saturday. 

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