Watford vs Portsmouth Prediction and Betting Tips | December 26th 2024 

Watford will host Portsmouth at Vicarage Road on Boxing Day in another round of the 2024-25 EFL Championship campaign. The home side have enjoyed a solid run of results in recent months and now sit eighth in the league table with 34 points from 21 matches as they look to finish the year in the playoff spots.

They suffered a 2-1 defeat to promotion chasers Burnley in their game at the weekend as they found themselves two goals down midway through the second-half before Kwadwo Baah netted a late consolation goal for the Hornets.

Portsmouth meanwhile have picked up important points in recent weeks and are now quite confident of avoiding the drop. They picked up an impressive 4-1 comeback win over Frank Lampard's Coventry City last time out with Callum Lang scoring an astonishing four times to help Pompey overturn an early deficit.

The newly-promoted outfit now sit 20th in the table with 20 points from 20 matches. They will now be looking to take inspiration from their last game when they head to the east of England this week as they attempt to pull clear of the drop zone.

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Watford vs Portsmouth Head-to-Head and Key Numbers

• There have been 51 meetings between Watford and Portsmouth. The home side have won 18 of those games while the visitors have won three more. There have been 12 draws between the two teams.
• The two teams last faced off in a Championship clash back in January 2012 which the visitors won 2-0.
• The Hornets are without a clean sheet in their last three matches.
• Only one of Pompey's four league wins this season has come on the road.

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Watford vs Portsmouth Prediction

Watford's latest result ended a six-game unbeaten streak and they will now be looking to bounce back here. They are one of just four teams in the English second-tier this season yet to lose at home and will head into the midweek clash with sky-high confidence.

Portsmouth picked up a memorable win last time out and will be looking to build on that here. They are however winless in their last five matches on the road and could lose this one.

Prediction: Watford 2-1 Portsmouth

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Watford vs Portsmouth Betting Tips

Tip 1 - Result: Watford

Tip 2 - Goals - Over/under 2.5 - Over 2.5 goals (Five of the visitors' last six matches have produced more than 2.5 goals)

Tip 3 - Both teams to score: YES (Both sides have found the back of the net in four of the hosts' last six matches)