2025-01-22 19:45
J. Smith
Fratton Park - Portsmouth
Portsmouth have lost each of their last three league games against Stoke City, including a 6-1 defeat in the reverse fixture in October.
Stoke City have won just two of their last 12 away league games against Portsmouth (D4 L6), but could win on successive trips there in the Football League for the first time, following a 2-1 win in the Premier League in February 2010.
Portsmouth have lost five of their seven midweek league games this season (W1 D1), with Pompey failing to score in four of those matches.
Stoke have won three of their last four Championship games against newly promoted sides (L1), including a 6-1 win over Portsmouth in the reverse fixture in October.
Stoke manager Mark Robins is yet to win as a visiting manager against Portsmouth in the Football League (D1 L2), drawing 3-3 on his last trip with Coventry in League One in August 2019.