📊 Form Guide

Portsmouth

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Portsmouth will be looking to improve on their last outing here after the 1-2 Championship defeat in their last game at the hands of Swansea City.

In that game, Portsmouth had 59% possession and 9 shots on goal with 4 on target. The only player to score for Portsmouth was Jacob Brown (64'). On the other side, Swansea City had 8 attempts at goal with 3 on target. Ethan Galbraith (26') and Josh Key (39') scored for Swansea City.

It has been seldom in recent times that Portsmouth have kept a clean sheet. The reality is that Portsmouth have seen their defence breached in 6 of their previous 6 games, leaking 8 goals during that time.

Looking at their past form shows that Portsmouth:

• are unbeaten in the league by Derby County in their previous 2 games.
• have left without a victory over Derby County in their previous 11 league games.
• haven’t won at home in the past 3 league matches.

Derby County

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After suffering a loss in their previous game against Millwall in Championship action, Derby County will be aiming to make amends here.

In that game, Derby County had 49% possession and 14 attempts on goal with 1 on target. Millwall got 15 shots at goal with 4 on target. Josh Coburn (43') was the scorer for Millwall.

Looking at their form, and Derby County have been scored against in 5 of their last 6 games, seeing their opponents hit 9 goals overall. In defence, Derby County certainly have room for improvement. That aside, we must now wait to see if the trend might be maintained in this upcoming match.

Looking at the pre-match facts, Derby County:

• haven't won against Portsmouth in games played away from home for the previous 3 league games.
• haven't been beaten by Portsmouth in games played away from home for the previous 5 matches in the league. A very decent away record against them.
• haven’t won away from home in the past 3 matches in the league.

👥 Head to head

Drawn results are a common outcome in games between the two sides. In their head to head meetings beginning from 29/04/2023, fans have seen 5 of them. That’s a really high 83% of games ending up tied.

A total of 18 goals were produced between them during those clashes, with 7 from Pompey and 11 created by The Rams. The average number of goals per game works out to 3.

The last league contest between the two was Championship match day 22 on 20/12/2025 when it ended Derby County 1-1 Portsmouth.

On that day, Derby County had 52% possession and 12 shots at goal with 6 on target.

Portsmouth got 4 attempts on goal with 1 of them on target. Callum Lang (6') and Hayden Matthews (45' Own goal) scored.

The match was refereed by Farai Hallam.

ℹ️ Team News: Portsmouth

It looks as if Pompey will probably kick off with a 4-2-3-1 system in the match, utilising Nicolas Schmid, Terry Devlin, Madiodio Dia, Connor Ogilvie, Zak Swanson, Marlon Pack, Ebou Adams, Gustavo Caballero, Jacob Brown, Conor Chaplin and Colby Bishop.

📰 Team News: Derby County

There’s a good chance that The Rams seem likely to make use of a 4-2-3-1 lineup, giving starts to Richard O´Donnell, Joe Ward, Dion Sanderson, Matt Clarke, Derry Murkin, David Ozoh, Lewis Travis, Ben Brereton Díaz, Samuel Szmodics, Rhian Brewster and Patrick Agyemang.

✨ Prediction

We’re inclined to think that Derby County may not find it easy to find the net against this Portsmouth lineup who we think might well get the win and a maybe even keep a clean sheet as well.

We therefore think that it’s going to be a 1-0 winning margin for Portsmouth after 90 minutes.

Expecting it to be tight.

Peter Guest, 19:01 16/03/2026