Portsmouth 0-1 Derby County Match Report (Monday 16th March 2026)
The home side came into this game with 3 wins in the last 10 games. The majority of their points had been collected against top 10 sides in the championship. They came into this game 14 points worse off from last season. 6 of the last 10 meetings against Derby ended in draws. Derby have scored in 89% of their matches and had only lost 3 of the recent away games. They found themselves 6 points from the play offs at the start of play, 4 points better off then last season.
The first big chance fell to the visitors on the 8th minute when Sammy Szmodics opened the scoring for the rams. A corner into the box and a low shot into the bottom right corner from about 15 yards out. The first real big shot of the game for the home side came on 31 minutes when Zak Swanson tried his luck at Goal which was easily dealt with by the Derby goalkeeper.
The final 5 minutes of the first half the game came to life Both sides making it an end to end contest. Patrick Agyemang should have made it 2-0 to Derby after trying to bend his shot in from the left hand side of the bar. On the 58th Minute Joe Ward should have increased Derby’s lead with an amazing free kick which came off the cross bar. Portsmouth kept pressing for the equaliser during the second half but nothing came for them. It was more of an even game in the second half which saw Derby County get all 3 points and move to within 3 points of Wrexham in the final play off place.
Full Time- Portsmouth 0-1 Derby County
Portsmouth (4-2-3-1) Schmid, Devlin, Ogilvie, Swanson (Shaughnessy 63’), Pack, Adams (Segecic 76’), Caballero, Chaplin 🟨40’ (Swift 63’ 🟨 67’), Alli (Bishop 76’), Brown (Kirk 82’)
Derby County (4-2-3-1) O’Donnell, Murkin (Forsyth 81’), Clarke 🟨53’, Sanderson, Ward 🟨87’, Travis, Clark 🟨85’, Brewster (Fraulo 60’ 🟨90+1), Szmodics 🟨41’ (Ozoh 71’), Diaz 🟨77’ (Benal 81’), Agyemang (Morris 71’)
Referee: Anthony Backhouse
Attendance: 19,253
Statistics:
27 Shots 10
9 On Target 4
11 Corner 3
493 Passes 243
2 Yellows 6
0 Reds 0
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