Match Report
Portsmouth, 1st with 97 points, sat 56 points above Port Vale (23rd, 41). Portsmouth ranked just 5th in the league on five-round form despite their 1st table position. Per game in the league, Port Vale were scoring 0.89 and conceding 1.61, Portsmouth 1.7 and 0.89, against a competition average of 1.29 goals per team per game.
Vale Park in Stoke-on-Trent staged the fixture, a ground that holds 18,947. Half-time and full-time told different stories: it was 0-0 at the break, before 1 more goal closed it at 0-1.