📏 Form Guide

Portsmouth

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Portsmouth head into this game after a 1-1 Championship drawn match vs Sheffield Wednesday.

In that game, Portsmouth had 32% possession and 2 attempts at goal with 1 of them on target. The scorer for Portsmouth was Harvey Blair (23'). Sheffield Wednesday got 18 shots at goal with 5 on target. Callum Paterson (9') was the scorer for Sheffield Wednesday.

It has been seldom in recent times where Portsmouth haven’t conceded. In fact, Portsmouth have failed to prevent opponents from scoring in 5 of their previous 6 games, shipping 9 goals along the way.

Going into this game, the form guide shows that Portsmouth:

• have left without a victory over Hull City in their last 2 league matches.
• have not been beaten in their last 3 home league matches.

Hull City

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Since suffering a loss in their previous game against Derby County in Championship competition, Hull City and their travelling fans will hope for a better result here.

In that match, Hull City had 63% possession and 15 shots at goal with 2 on target. At the other end, Derby County had 6 attempts on goal with 2 on target. Nathaniel Phillips (84') scored for Derby County.

It is worth noting that Hull City have failed to get amongst the goals over their last six clashes, contributing the unsatisfactory return of just 4. In those matches, The Tigers have also seen the overall goal aggregate of their opponents equal 5. It will be interesting to find out whether or not that trend will be sustained here.

Coming into this clash, Hull City haven’t won away from home in the past 2 league games.

↔️ Head to head

Inspecting their prior head to head clashes going back to 03/01/2011 tells us that Portsmouth have won 2 of these games & Hull City 3, with the tally of draws being 1.

An aggregate of 16 goals were yielded between them during those clashes, with 7 from Pompey and 9 being from The Tigers. That’s an average goals per game figure of 2.67.

The previous league match between these sides was Championship match day 13 on 02/11/2024 which finished with the scoreline of Hull City 1-1 Portsmouth.

In that game, Hull City managed 72% possession and 10 attempts on goal with 3 of them on target. Their only player on the scoresheet was João Pedro (11').

For their opponents, Portsmouth had 9 attempts at goal with 4 on target. Josh Murphy (46') was the scorer.

The referee was Anthony Backhouse.

📋 Team News: Portsmouth

Ibane Bowat (Patellar tendon rupture), Jacob Farrell (Knee surgery) and Hayden Matthews (Ankle surgery) will be missing for Portsmouth manager John Mousinho.

In our view, Pompey look set to employ a 4-2-3-1 formation this time featuring Ben Killip, Terry Devlin, Conor Shaughnessy, Robert Atkinson, Connor Ogilvie, Freddie Potts, Marlon Pack, Harvey Blair, Callum Lang, Josh Murphy and Colby Bishop.

🗞️ Team News: Hull City

Hull City manager Rubén Sellés has multiple availability issues to deal with. Doğukan Sinik (Leg injury), Louie Barry (Knee injury), Mohamed Belloumi (Cruciate ligament tear) and Liam Millar (Cruciate ligament injury) miss out here.

From our viewpoint, The Tigers seem most likely to elect for a 4-2-3-1 system, starting Ivor Pandur, Lewie Coyle, John Egan, Charlie Hughes, Sean McLoughlin, Gustavo Puerta, Matt Crooks, Abu Kamara, Joe Gelhardt, Kyle Joseph and Joao Pedro.

⚡ Prediction

We’re of the view that Portsmouth may not find it easy to put one past this Hull City lineup who will likely gain the upper hand.

Our tip is therefore for a very even contest with a 0-1 winning score for Hull City at the conclusion of the game.

Let’s see.

Victor Martins, 11:03 03/05/2025