About Match
Level on 6 points, Portsmouth (14th) and Stoke City (13th) meet as equals in the table. Against a league average of 1.43 goals per team per game, Portsmouth run at 1.4 scored and 1.6 conceded, Stoke City at 1.6 and 1.8. Portsmouth would climb to 9 points with a win and up to 7th, overtaking Stoke City (other results held equal).
8 meetings are on record — 3 won by Portsmouth, 5 by Stoke City, 0 drawn, at 3.38 goals per meeting. The pattern favours whoever hosts: home teams have won 63% of the meetings. Three-plus goals is the norm here, arriving in 75% of the meetings.
Fratton Park in Portsmouth stages the fixture, a ground that holds 20,688.




