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Portsmouth First Half Goals
In 138 EFL League One matches, 65.2% of Portsmouth’s first halves produced a goal, 30th of the 35 published clubs in the division. They scored before halftime in 45.7% of them and conceded in 39.9%.
What Portsmouth’s first halves look like
Home is where Portsmouth are breached early, and by some distance: 49.3% of home matches against 30.4% away. Home advantage arrives early for Portsmouth: they open the scoring account before halftime in 50.7% of home matches and only 40.6% of away ones, 10.1pp between them.
Portsmouth guard the first half better than they attack it: 8th of 35 in the division for early goals conceded, 16th for scoring them. Portsmouth come 30th of 35 in the published EFL League One field for the share of their first halves that produce a goal.
Portsmouth shade the early exchanges without dominating them: a goal of their own before the break in 45.7% of matches, one against in 39.9%. A goal arrives before halftime in 65.2% of Portsmouth’s EFL League One matches. The EFL League One figure is 70.2%, leaving them 5.0pp short of it. A goalless first half remains common all the same, at 34.8%.
Every figure on this page rests on 138 completed Portsmouth matches over 3 seasons (2021 to 2024). That is enough to separate a clear tendency from noise, and not enough to split it much further by venue or opponent.
Portsmouth first-half profile
| A goal before halftime (over 0.5) | 65.2% |
|---|---|
| Two or more (over 1.5) | 31.9% |
| Three or more (over 2.5) | 11.6% |
| Average first-half goals in their matches | 1.11 |
| Matches in which they scored before halftime | 45.7% |
| Matches in which they conceded before halftime | 39.9% |
| First-half goals scored per match | 0.61 |
| First-half goals conceded per match | 0.50 |
| Matches counted | 138 |
| Seasons covered | 3 (2021 to 2024) |
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 | 72.5% | 40.6% | 50.7% | 49.3% | 1.30 | 69 |
| Away | 58.0% | 23.2% | 40.6% | 30.4% | 0.91 | 69 |
Portsmouth score before halftime 50.7% of the time at home against 40.6% away, a gap of 10.1pp. 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 EFL League One
| Line | Portsmouth | EFL League One | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Over 0.5 | 65.2% | 70.2% | −5.0pp |
| Over 1.5 | 31.9% | 33.0% | −1.1pp |
| Over 2.5 | 11.6% | 10.5% | +1.1pp |
Counted from 138 matches · 3 seasons · 2021 to 2024.
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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