BBCFri, November 28, 2025 at 9:47 AM UTC·1 min readPortsmouth return to Fratton Park for the visit of Bristol City on Saturday lunchtime (12:30 GMT) under increasing pressure.
Depending on Oxford United's result against Ipswich on Friday and Sheffield United's at Leicester on Saturday lunchtime, John Mousinho's men could be in the relegation zone by 15:00 GMT on Saturday.
AdvertisementAdvertisementAdvertisementWednesday night's 3-0 reverse at Bramall Lane was a fifth defeat in Pompey's past seven games, from which they have earned just four points, though those did come in their two previous home games.
The inconsistent Robins slipped to seventh courtesy of Tuesday night's 2-0 defeat at struggling Swansea, their third in five games, but Gerhard Struber's side could return to the top four, temporarily at least, with a win here.
After winning three consecutive league games against Bristol City between March 1991 and April 1992, Portsmouth have since won just two of their 14 against the Robins (D7 L5).
Bristol City have failed to win any of their past three away league games against Portsmouth (D1 L2), failing to score on their previous two visits.
Portsmouth are looking to win successive home league games for the first time since March, following their 3-1 victory over Millwall.
Bristol City have won three of their past four weekend matches in the Championship (L1), keeping a clean sheet in all three victories. The other game in this run was a 5-1 defeat away to Stoke, however.
Bristol City's Anis Mehmeti only has more goals in the Football League against Plymouth Argyle (5) than Portsmouth (3), while he has four goal involvements in his past three league games against them (3 goals, 1 assist).
