Woking vs Portsmouth - prediction, team news, lineups

Championship broadside Portsmouth volition statesman their pre-season docket with an distant affable against National League outfit Woking connected Tuesday.

The Cards are acceptable to participate their archetypal afloat play nether the ticker of erstwhile Pompey striker Jermain Defoe, portion the visitors are gathering up to a 3rd consecutive run successful the 2nd tier. 

Match preview

Defoe is inactive comparatively caller to beingness successful elder absorption aft taking implicit the reins astatine Woking successful precocious March. 

The ex-England planetary oversaw 2 wins, 4 draws and 1 decision successful the last 7 games of the National League season. 

After finishing successful 10th spot past term, Woking volition beryllium aiming to equine a propulsion for a top-seven spot successful their pursuit of reaching the EFL for the archetypal clip successful their history.

Woking past achieved that feat successful the 2022-23 campaign, erstwhile they finished successful 4th spot with 82 points to their name, lone to past suffer 2-1 to Bromley successful the playoff quarter-finals.

With the absorption firmly connected the upcoming season, Woking person made 7 signings to Defoe's squad, including the attacking additions of Josh Ayres, Josh Kelly, Sean Adarkwa, Liam Dulson and Ashley Clarke.

Defoe volition person the accidental to enactment his ideas crossed to the caller signings during the people of pre-season, which started with a constrictive 2-1 triumph implicit Sholing astatine the weekend. 

Portsmouth, meanwhile, are preparing for a 3rd consecutive Championship play aft securing endurance with an 18th-place decorativeness past term.

Pompey brag John Mousinho was linked with the Bristol City occupation pursuing the decision of the 2025-26 campaign, but helium remains successful complaint astatine Fratton Park arsenic the absorption present turns to transforming a relegation-threatened squad into 1 that tin vie further up the table.

The southbound seashore broadside person added a mates of names to their squad successful midfielder Odin Bailey and guardant Eion Kenny, though they are reportedly connected the brink of bringing successful further reinforcements.

After starting their preparations for the caller play with a grooming campy successful Ireland, Portsmouth volition officially statesman pre-season with 2 friendlies successful arsenic galore days.

A travel to Aldershot Town connected Wednesday volition travel Tuesday's gathering with Woking, earlier Pompey look Bristol Rovers, Wycombe Wanderers and Farnborough.

Mousinho's charges volition past caput to Germany for a affable against 2.Bundesliga broadside Darmstadt 98, representing the last halt of their pre-season docket earlier the run begins with an EFL Cup necktie against precocious relegated West Ham United.

Woking signifier friendlies:

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Team News

Woking's lineup is pugnacious to foretell astatine this aboriginal signifier of pre-season, particularly aft the Cards fielded a fig of trialists successful Saturday's triumph implicit Sholing.

Out of the existent first-team squad, Zico Asare, Timi Odusina, Chinwike Okoli and Caleb Richards look the astir apt to marque up the backmost four. 

At the other extremity of the pitch, Adarkwa could beryllium fixed the accidental to pb the enactment aft arriving connected a escaped transportation from Wealdstone. 

Portsmouth, meanwhile, are incapable to telephone upon left-back Conor Ogilvie, who is expected to miss the commencement of the Championship play aft undergoing genu surgery.

Mousinho volition person to determine whether to divided his squad betwixt Tuesday and Wednesday's friendlies oregon springiness players a 45-minute run-out successful the 2 games. 

Bailey and Kenny could marque their archetypal appearances successful a Pompey shirt, though they whitethorn not diagnostic successful the starting XI. 

Woking imaginable starting lineup:

Jaaskelainen; Asare, Odiusina, Okoli, Richards; Sohna, Syle; Clarke, Kelly, Dryer; Adarkwa

Portsmouth imaginable starting lineup:

Schmid; Devlin, Poole, Shaughnessy, Bowat; Pack, Adams; Segecic, Swift, Murphy; Bishop 

We say: Woking 1-3 Portsmouth

The main precedence for some managers volition beryllium for their players to physique up their lucifer sharpness astatine this aboriginal signifier of pre-season.

That said, Portsmouth volition inactive privation to physique assurance with a win, and boasting a overmuch stronger squad than their hosts, we deliberation the Championship outfit volition grounds a comfy victory. 

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