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Portsmouth First Half Goals
In 69 Championship matches, 66.7% of Portsmouth’s first halves produced a goal, 13th of the 18 published clubs in the division. They scored before halftime in 33.3% of them and conceded in 46.4%.
What Portsmouth’s first halves look like
The back line is a different proposition on the road: 55.9% of away matches bring an early goal against Portsmouth, next to 37.1% at home. Home advantage arrives early for Portsmouth: they open the scoring account before halftime in 40.0% of home matches and only 26.5% of away ones, 13.5pp between them.
Early scoring in Portsmouth’s matches tends to happen at the wrong end. They let one in before the break in 46.4% of matches and find the net in 33.3%, 13.1pp apart. An early goal in Portsmouth’s matches tends to be the only one: a second follows just 41% of the time, where the division manages 47%.
Two goals before the break is unusually hard to come by, 27.5% of Portsmouth’s matches against 32.7% across the division. Portsmouth come 13th of 18 in the published Championship field for the share of their first halves that produce a goal.
Every figure on this page rests on 69 completed Portsmouth matches over 2 seasons (2025 to 2026). At that size a single percentage point is about one match, so read each rate as a range rather than a figure.
Portsmouth first-half profile
| A goal before halftime (over 0.5) | 66.7% |
|---|---|
| Two or more (over 1.5) | 27.5% |
| Three or more (over 2.5) | 8.7% |
| Average first-half goals in their matches | 1.09 |
| Matches in which they scored before halftime | 33.3% |
| Matches in which they conceded before halftime | 46.4% |
| First-half goals scored per match | 0.46 |
| First-half goals conceded per match | 0.62 |
| Matches counted | 69 |
| Seasons covered | 2 (2025 to 2026) |
The over rows count goals by either side; the scored and conceded rows split that between them.
Home and away
| Venue | Over 0.5 | Over 1.5 | Scored | Conceded | Avg goals | Matches |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home | 68.6% | 22.9% | 40.0% | 37.1% | 0.97 | 35 |
| Away | 64.7% | 32.4% | 26.5% | 55.9% | 1.21 | 34 |
Portsmouth score before halftime 40.0% of the time at home against 26.5% away, a gap of 13.5pp. Each row rests only on the matches played at that venue, so read them as two separate samples rather than one split in half.
Portsmouth against Championship
| Line | Portsmouth | Championship | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Over 0.5 | 66.7% | 68.9% | −2.2pp |
| Over 1.5 | 27.5% | 32.7% | −5.2pp |
| Over 2.5 | 8.7% | 10.3% | −1.6pp |
Counted from 69 matches · 2 seasons · 2025 to 2026.
How to read these numbers
- These are historical rates over pooled seasons, not a forecast. A club that has changed manager, division or squad reads as the average of every version of itself on record.
- The opponent matters as much as the club. A high-scoring side against a defense that rarely concedes early is a different fixture from the same side against one that does.
For the model’s estimate of an actual upcoming fixture rather than this club’s history, see first half goals predictions and how the model works.
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