📊 Form Guide

Portsmouth

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Portsmouth will be looking for an improved result here following a 2-1 Championship loss in their previous game against Preston North End.

In that game, Portsmouth had 46% possession and 9 attempts at goal with 2 of them on target. The only player on the scoresheet for Portsmouth was Colby Bishop (83'). For their opponents, Preston North End had 14 shots on goal with 6 of them on target. Ryan Porteous (76') and Stefán Teitur Þórðarson (87') scored for Preston North End.

John Mousinho's Portsmouth have seen rewards for their attempts on goal 7 times in their past six outings. Conversely, the number of goals that have been scored against them in that same time stands at 6.

Heading into this fixture, Portsmouth haven't beaten Blackburn Rovers in their previous 6 league games.

Blackburn Rovers

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After a losing effort in their last game against Cardiff City in Championship competition, Blackburn Rovers will be hoping to turn things around here.

In that match, Blackburn Rovers had 65% possession and 8 attempts at goal with 2 of them on target. The only player to score for Blackburn Rovers was Yuki Ohashi (16'). On the other side, Cardiff City got 10 shots on goal with 4 of them on target. Yousef Salech (4') and Yakou Meïté (73') scored for Cardiff City.

The stats don’t lie, and Blackburn Rovers have been scored against in 5 of their last 6 matches, with opponents netting 9 goals in all. At the back, Blackburn Rovers have some weaknesses to address. Previous results aside, we will just have to wait and see whether the trend shall continue on in this next game or not.

Going into this game, the form guide shows that Blackburn Rovers:

• haven't been defeated by Portsmouth when they have played them away from home in the previous 2 league matches.
• have not won away from home in their last 3 league games.

🤜🤛 Head to head

An inspection of their past head to head results stretching back to 09/05/2009 reveals that these encounters have been disappointments for Portsmouth. They have not been able to get any wins whatsoever while Blackburn Rovers have remained in the ascendancy, finishing as winners in 83 per cent of those matches.

A total of 15 goals were shared by the two clubs during those clashes, with 2 of them from Pompey and 13 belonging to Rovers. That’s an average goals per game of 2.5.

The last league meeting between the two was Championship match day 16 on 15/01/2025 when the final score was Blackburn Rovers 3-0 Portsmouth.

In that game, Blackburn Rovers had 53% possession and 13 shots on goal with 6 of them on target. The goals were scored by Makhtar Gueye (61'), Callum Brittain (71') and Andreas Weimann (76').

Portsmouth had 11 shots on goal with 2 on target.

The match was refereed by Farai Hallam.

📋 Team News: Portsmouth

It doesn’t get much better regarding selection, with just a single fitness concern for the Portsmouth manager John Mousinho to be concerned about from a near full-strength set of players. Ibane Bowat (Patellar tendon rupture) will miss out.

📰 Team News: Blackburn Rovers

Blackburn Rovers manager Valérien Ismaël has to choose from a squad that has some fitness concerns. Andreas Weimann (Knee surgery) and Hayden Carter (Knee surgery) can’t be considered.

🧠 Prediction

When taking everything into account, Blackburn Rovers may well find it hard to score against this Portsmouth team who we reckon should get the win and a maybe even keep a clean sheet as well.

We therefore fancy a highly competitive game with a 1-0 winning margin for Portsmouth at the end of the 90.

Should be an interesting one.

Renata Leite, 14:02 29/03/2025