📊 Form Guide

Stoke City

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Stoke City will be looking to improve on their last outing here after the 1-3 Championship losing effort in their last game against Millwall.

In that match, Stoke City had 46% possession and 12 shots at goal with 4 on target. Millwall got 14 shots at goal with 6 on target. Camiel Neghli (20'), Femi Azeez (55'), Caleb Taylor (60' Own goal) and Josh Coburn (69') scored for Millwall.

It’s been all too rare in recent games where Stoke City haven’t conceded. It will be a concern for them that Stoke City have failed to prevent opponents from scoring in 5 of their previous 6 clashes, letting in 11 goals along the way. That sort of trend might not follow through into this next game, though.

Heading into this contest, Stoke City haven’t won at home in the past 2 matches in the league.

Portsmouth

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After being beaten in their last game against Coventry City in Championship action, Portsmouth and their travelling supporters will be hoping that they can get a better result in this one.

In that game, Portsmouth managed 28% possession and 4 shots on goal with 2 on target. For Portsmouth, the goalscorers were Regan Poole (50' Own goal) and Adrian Segecic (69'). For their opponents, Coventry City got 15 shots on goal with 5 of them on target. Haji Wright (12'), Ephron Mason-Clark (47', 76') and Kaine Kesler-Hayden (91') scored for Coventry City.

In their last six outings, Portsmouth have amassed a tally of 8 goals. Portsmouth have also scored on each one of those occasions. During that period, they have had 7 goals go into their own net.

Ahead of this meeting, Portsmouth have not registered a win against Stoke City when they've played them away from home in the last 7 league games. They'll be keen to stop this run.

🤜🤛 Head to head

A review of their prior head-to-head clashes going back to 22/11/2009 shows us that Stoke City have won 5 of these games & Portsmouth 1, with the tally of drawn games being 0.

A combined total of 19 goals were scored between them during those clashes, with 14 of them from The Potters and 5 belonging to Pompey. That’s an average goals per game of 3.17.

The last league encounter between these sides was Championship match day 12 on 25/10/2025 and the score finished Portsmouth 0-1 Stoke City.

On that day, Portsmouth had 49% possession and 14 shots on goal with 3 of them on target. Their only player on the scoresheet was Hayden Matthews (70' Own goal).

For their opponents, Stoke City got 11 shots on goal with 2 on target.

The match was refereed by Thomas Kirk.

📋 Team News: Stoke City

It’s our opinion that The Potters will probably kick off with a 4-2-3-1 system with Gavin Bazunu, Sydney Agina, R. Otegbayo, Ashley Phillips, Eric Junior Bocat, Tatsuki Seko, Ben Pearson, Million Manhoef, Lewis Baker, Sorba Thomas and Sam Gallagher.

📋 Team News: Portsmouth

From our viewpoint, Pompey appear most likely to begin the game with a 4-2-3-1 formation using Nicolas Schmid, Jordan Williams, Regan Poole, Madiodio Dia, Connor Ogilvie, Marlon Pack, Andre Dozzell, Adrian Segecic, Conor Chaplin, Millenic Alli and Colby Bishop.

💡 Prediction

We feel that Portsmouth and Stoke City could well cancel each other out, with goals at a real premium.

It will be interesting to see how this one goes, and it’s not easy to pick a clear winner. We’re therefore predicting a very even match with a 0-0 score when the referee blows the final whistle.

Renata Leite, 13:04 25/04/2026