League One match prediction and preview for Portsmouth vs Oxford United clash

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Competition: England League One
Date: Sat 02.November
Match begins: 16:00 (UTC)
Venue: Fratton Park (21100 seats)

Struggling Portsmouth will be hoping to pull off an upset when they welcome high-flying Oxford United in the upcoming league round. It’s 16th vs 5th and the home crowd will have moderate expectations.

Portsmouth and Oxford United should both be in good shape for this meeting, as there's been enough days for both of them to train and rest since their last matches.

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Portsmouth form and stats

Portsmouth are steadily winning League One games and points here at Fratton Park. 3 wins, 3 draws and 0 defeats is the summary from 6 games.

Portsmouth manager K. Jackett and his team return home after a 2-2 draw away versus Bristol Rovers (placed 10th) in the League One. Before that, Portsmouth had a home game versus Lincoln City which ended with a victory 1-0.

A case of two points dropped for Portsmouth in the Bristol Rovers match as a lead 2-0 was lost and what looked like a victory ended in a draw.

The bookmakers consider this a fairly even contest. One could say only the home advantage separates the teams. It could be relevant to look at how Portsmouth have performed in matches similar to this (as small favourites). Our database has found three matches with the results: Won 0 Drawn 2 Lost 1.

Another home game is coming up fairly shortly for the hosts, as Southend United are coming to town in three days.

Portsmouth have proved capable of finding the net in their games here at Fratton Park with 9 goals in 6 league matches. Portsmouth are not conceding a lot of goals here at Fratton Park in the league, averaging less than one per game. The total is 5 from 6 matches.

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Oxford United form and stats

Playing away, Oxford United have won 2 games, drawn 3 and suffered 3 defeats in the League One this season.

Oxford United are travelling after their nice 3-0 home win in the League One against Rochdale (placed 14th). Preceding that game was the away victory against Rotherham United with the score of 2-1.

As mentioned above, this is an open game with no clear favourite. We have found eleven similar matches played by Oxford United in our archives, and the results are: 5 wins for Oxford United, 3 draws and 3 defeats.

Oxford United are not goal shy away from home in the league, finding the net 14 times in 8 away games so far. As opposed to that, Oxford United have seen the ball go into their own net 11 times on the road.

Head 2 Head

Portsmouth-Oxford United H2H statistics last ten meetings regardless of arena: Portsmouth 3 wins, Oxford United 3 wins, 4 draws. 5 of these ten matches had three or more goals (over 2,5).

Top Goalscorers

Oxford UnitedJ. Henry
J. Henry
7 goals / 2 assists
Oxford UnitedT. Fosu
T. Fosu
7 goals
Oxford UnitedC. Brannagan
C. Brannagan
5 goals / 3 assists

Portsmouth missing players

Oxford United missing players

Portsmouth Oxford United
Total Home Home vs top Statistics Stat Away vs low Away Total
13 6 1 Played P 3 8 15
4 3 0 Won W 1 2 7
5 3 1 Drew D 2 3 4
4 0 0 Lost L 0 3 4
15 9 3 Scored S 8 14 32
14 5 3 Conceded C 2 11 18
92% 83% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 67% 88% 93%
54% 50% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 67% 88% 87%
38% 33% 100% Over 2.5 O 2.5 67% 75% 80%
23% 33% 100% Over 3.5 O 3.5 67% 38% 33%
8% 17% 100% Over 4.5 O 4.5 33% 12% 20%
46% 33% 100% BTTS BTTS 33% 75% 53%
31% 67% 0% Clean Sheets C S 67% 25% 47%
31% 17% 0% Failed to Score F T 33% 12% 7%
 
5.3 5.5 5 Corners For (avg) C F 4.7 6.8 7.1
4.1 3 5 Corners Against (avg) C A 5 5.1 4.7
2.4 1.7 2 Yellow Cards (avg) Y C 2.7 2.8 2.3
2 0 0 Red Cards R C 0 0 0
Key stats this season:
  • Oxford United have scored more than double the goals of Portsmouth.
  • Portsmouth have not yet lost a game at home.

Portsmouth
All EFL Trophy League One FA Cup Carabao Cup
All Home Away Home vs top
08-10-19 EFL Oxford United 2 - 2 Portsmouth
12-10-19 LO Portsmouth 0 - 0 Gillingham
19-10-19 LO AFC Wimbledon 1 - 0 Portsmouth
22-10-19 LO Portsmouth 1 - 0 Lincoln City
26-10-19 LO Bristol Rovers 2 - 2 Portsmouth
02-11-19 LO Portsmouth 16:00 Oxford United
05-11-19 LO Portsmouth 20:45 Southend United
11-11-19 FAC Harrogate Town 20:45 Portsmouth
16-11-19 LO Portsmouth 16:00 Fleetwood Town
23-11-19 LO Rochdale 16:00 Portsmouth
Oxford United
All EFL Trophy League One Carabao Cup FA Cup
All Home Away Away vs low
05-10-19 LO Accrington Stanley 2 - 2 Oxford United
08-10-19 EFL Oxford United 2 - 2 Portsmouth
12-10-19 LO Oxford United 3 - 0 Doncaster Rovers
19-10-19 LO Rotherham United 1 - 2 Oxford United
26-10-19 LO Oxford United 3 - 0 Rochdale
29-10-19 CC Oxford United 20:45 Sunderland
02-11-19 LO Portsmouth 16:00 Oxford United
10-11-19 FAC Hayes & Yeading United 15:15 Oxford United
12-11-19 EFL Crawley Town 20:45 Oxford United
16-11-19 LO Oxford United 16:00 Ipswich Town

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 Ipswich Town 14 9 3 2 24 10 6 3 2 1 10 5 8 6 1 1 14 5 14 30
2 Wycombe Wanderers 15 8 6 1 24 14 8 6 2 0 18 10 7 2 4 1 6 4 10 30
3 Peterborough United 15 8 4 3 36 18 8 5 2 1 23 9 7 3 2 2 13 9 18 28
4 Fleetwood Town 14 8 2 4 26 17 8 6 1 1 14 6 6 2 1 3 12 11 9 26
5 Oxford United 15 7 4 4 32 18 7 5 1 1 18 7 8 2 3 3 14 11 14 25
6 Coventry City 15 6 7 2 20 18 8 6 1 1 12 6 7 0 6 1 8 12 2 25
7 Doncaster Rovers 13 6 4 3 22 14 8 5 1 2 13 8 5 1 3 1 9 6 8 22
8 Sunderland 14 6 4 4 21 16 6 4 2 0 14 5 8 2 2 4 7 11 5 22
9 Blackpool 15 5 7 3 18 16 7 3 2 2 9 9 8 2 5 1 9 7 2 22
10 Bristol Rovers 15 6 4 5 17 18 9 4 4 1 13 9 6 2 0 4 4 9 -1 22
11 Rotherham United 14 6 3 5 21 13 7 2 2 3 12 7 7 4 1 2 9 6 8 21
12 Shrewsbury Town 14 5 6 3 12 14 7 3 3 1 7 7 7 2 3 2 5 7 -2 21
13 Burton Albion 13 5 4 4 16 13 6 2 2 2 3 2 7 3 2 2 13 11 3 19
14 Rochdale 15 5 4 6 19 25 7 2 3 2 7 8 8 3 1 4 12 17 -6 19
15 Gillingham 15 4 6 5 20 17 7 3 1 3 14 8 8 1 5 2 6 9 3 18
16 Portsmouth 13 4 5 4 15 14 6 3 3 0 9 5 7 1 2 4 6 9 1 17
17 Lincoln City 15 5 2 8 17 20 7 4 1 2 10 7 8 1 1 6 7 13 -3 17
18 Accrington Stanley 15 3 5 7 17 26 7 2 2 3 10 11 8 1 3 4 7 15 -9 14
19 Tranmere Rovers 14 3 4 7 17 27 7 2 3 2 14 10 7 1 1 5 3 17 -10 13
20 Milton Keynes Dons 15 4 1 10 12 22 8 3 1 4 5 11 7 1 0 6 7 11 -10 13
21 AFC Wimbledon 15 3 3 9 19 25 7 2 3 2 8 9 8 1 0 7 11 16 -6 12
22 Southend United 15 1 2 12 16 43 8 0 1 7 7 26 7 1 1 5 9 17 -27 5
23 Bolton Wanderers 12 1 4 7 5 28 6 0 4 2 2 9 6 1 0 5 3 19 -23 -5

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