About Match
10 points and 16 places separate them: Portsmouth U18 4th with 10, Newport County U18 20th with 0. The last five rounds place Newport County U18 no better than 42nd for form, against 20th in the standings. Per game in the league, Portsmouth U18 score 3.2 and conceding 2.2, Newport County U18 0.67 and 4.67, against a competition average of 2.06 goals per team per game. Three points here take Portsmouth U18 to 13 and up to 1st, assuming other results stand.
Newport County U18 have lost four in a row. Portsmouth U18 have banked 10 of the last 15 points on offer; Newport County U18, 1.
The sides have met 9 times in the GioScore results database: 7 wins for Portsmouth U18, 1 draw and 1 for Newport County U18, at 4.78 goals per meeting. Only 22% of these meetings ended in a home win. Goals tend to flow: 67% of the meetings produced three or more, and both sides scored in 56%.