Match Report
The table gap was wide: 46 points between Burnley (2nd, 100 pts) and Portsmouth (16th, 54 pts). Portsmouth ranked 5th in the league on five-round form, well above their 16th table position. Scoring rates set the scale: Portsmouth 1.26 scored and 1.54 conceded per game, Burnley 1.5 and 0.35, with the league averaging 1.23.
Burnley's unbeaten run stood at 15.
GioScore's database holds 7 meetings between the two: 3 for Portsmouth, 3 for Burnley and 1 drawn, at 2.86 goals per meeting. Hosting has counted for little in this fixture — the home side has won only 29% of those meetings. Goals at both ends are the pattern: both teams scored in 71% of the meetings.
Fratton Park in Portsmouth staged the fixture, a ground that holds 20,688. It was 0-0 at the break — the second half brought no more goals and it finished 0-0.