MATCH THREAD: " PORTSMOUTH v CARDIFF CITY " MATCH THREAD

PORTSMOUTH v CARDIFF CITY
Saturday 5th September, 3pm
Sky Bet Championship - Match 5
Fratton Park

Three changes to the starting XI, as Chris Willock, David Turnbull and Krystian Bielik come in!


Capt Rubin Dropped

Two Keepers on the Bench??

No Isaak Davies on bench?

Calum Scanlon, Cian Ashford and Rubin Colwill are named on the bench today.

Perry Ng captains the side.




2,200 Cardiff Fans / Sold Out


Cardiff have sold their away allocation

Cardiff without a Win in the League


BBM:

“Dylan is now back doing some very light training and doing some jogging, but he's nowhere close to returning for us .”


“So it's impossible to say when [he'll be back].”


“Dylan Lawlor and Will Fish face lengthy lay-offs, while Calum Chambers' mystery knee injury is harder to put a timescale on

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About Portsmouth

Portsmouth are in their third successive season in the Championship, having been promoted from League One in 2024.

Last season they finished 18th.

They were last in the Premier League in 2010 and and are two time FA Cup winners, including in 2008 when they beat us in the final.

Club Connections

Ebou Adams and Marlon Pack both started for Portsmouth in midweek and used to play for us.

Regan Poole came up through our academy.

The Opposition's Manager

John Mousinho has been Portsmouth manager since January 2023.

It is the only management job he's had.

He guided Portsmouth to promotion from League One and also won League One Manager of the Season in 2024.

Opposition Dangerous Players

Adrian Segecic has a record of scoring brilliant goals. He already has one this season and got 11 last season.

Abu Kamara was a summer arrival and already has an assist to his name.

Referee

Ben Speedie will take charge of this game.

He refereed 42 games last season, showing 125 yellow cards - an average of 2.9 per game. He also showed six red cards. This season he has shown 20 yellow cards in 5 games.

Last season, he refereed our home win against Peterborough and our away win at Exeter.

Head To Head - Last Five Meetings

We have each won two of the last five meetings with each other, with us also winning a cup tie after extra time.

The last meeting was at Fratton Park in the Championship in February 2025, with Portsmouth winning 2-1.

Team News - Predicted Line-Ups

Portsmouth: Bielica, Devlin, Arthur, Dia, Swanson, Pack, Adams, Segecic, Kamara, Kavuma McQueen, Marezi

Cardiff City: Trott, Ng, Bielik, Bagan, Scanlon, Robertson, R Colwill, Ashford, Tanner, Moylan, Salech

Last Game

We lost 2-1 at QPR on Wednesday.

Portsmouth lost 2-0 at home to Derby on Tuesday.

Match Odds

Portsmouth - 7/5
Cardiff City - 7/4
Draw - 12/5

Predictions

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Pompey have lost 3 of their last 4 games

City Win

BBM:

“Dylan is now back doing some very light training and doing some jogging, but he's nowhere close to returning for us .”


“So it's impossible to say when [he'll be back].”


“Dylan Lawlor and Will Fish face lengthy lay-offs, while Calum Chambers' mystery knee injury is harder to put a timescale on.”

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Cardiff without a Win in the League

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Aug 2026

Mon Aug 17 Cardiff City 1 Wrexham Crowd 31,421 Away Support 2,549



Sat, Aug 22 Derby County 2 Cardiff City 2 Crowd 28,926 including 2,771 Away Supporters


Sat, Aug 29 Cardiff City 2 Sheffield United 2 Crowd 21,036 including 1,359 away fans





Sept

Wed, Sept 2 Queens Park Rangers 2 Cardiff City 1 Crowd Away Support 1,271




Sat, Sept 5 (3pm) - Portsmouth (a)

Tues, Sept 8 (7.45pm) - Stoke City (h)

Sky 12:30pm Sat, Sept 12 Bolton Wanderers (a)

Sky 12:30pm Sat, Sept 19 Charlton Athletic (h)

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This game has become quite a big one now , the longer we go without a win the more the pressure will mount onto these young lads , we need that monkey off our back ASAP

1-2 City

2-2 draw

BBM:


"We just didn’t find the right levels against QPR, and suffered for it.”

“Our intensity wasn’t where it would normally be, and as such we gave the ball away in dangerous situations."

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2,200 Cardiff Fans / Sold Out

Good support, big match

Well done to the supporters
Everybody needs needs a win to lift us all up and I think they will deliver today 1-3

Portsmouth will down down near the bottom end I'm sure , they was really poor in the games I've seen them so far except the one win Vs Lincoln although it depends if BBM has the ability to actually change systems this season if it's not working that will be the telling result in the end with this squad for me

Three changes to the starting XI, as Chris Willock, David Turnbull and Krystian Bielik come in!


Capt Rubin Dropped

Two Keepers on the Bench??

No Isaak Davies on bench?

Calum Scanlon, Cian Ashford and Rubin Colwill are named on the bench today.

Perry Ng captains the side.

CCFC :

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Minutes Silence Allan Knight

EFL Back up 5 if anyone is missing it

Bluebirds

EFL Back up 5 if anyone is missing it

Bagan fouled

City free kick

Should of Scored

Floated in by Bagan and Bielik plants a far-post header across goal and narrowly wide!

Pompey currently bottom 3 due to results earlier

Moylan could of shot but Salech in the way

End to end

Robertson soft shot easily saved

Pompey look week at the back

good start by Cardiff

West ham 1 Derby 0

Cardiff looking good Pompey panicking

Stoke 4 10 men Charlton 0

This was earlier silly foul

Bielik into the book for a foul on Marezi.

Moylan looks to thread one
Goes in search of Salech with a through-ball on the edge of the area.

Just too hard and Portsmouth see it out for a goal kick.