Derby County 1-1 Portsmouth: result and report

Championship · Saturday 20 December 2025

Result

Derby County 1-1 Portsmouth

Championship · Saturday 20 December 2025, 15:00 UTC · half-time 1-1

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Derby County 1-1 Portsmouth: match report

Derby County drew with Portsmouth 1-1 in the Championship on Saturday 20 December 2025. It was 1-1 at half-time.

Callum Lang opened the scoring in the 6th minute. Derby County's goal came from an own goal by Hayden Matthews (45'). Portsmouth scored through Callum Lang (6').

Discipline: Derby County received 1 yellow card; Portsmouth received 1 yellow card.

Going into the game Derby County were 12th on 30 points from 21 and Portsmouth 21st on 20 points from 20. Derby County went on to finish that season 8th with 69 points, and Portsmouth 18th with 55.

Derby County lined up in a 3-4-1-2 and Portsmouth in a 4-2-3-1. The highest match rating in our data went to Joe Ward of Derby County (7.9), ahead of Nicolas Schmid (7.3).

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 3 Derby County wins, 6 draws and 1 for Portsmouth.

Going into the match Derby County's last five read W-D-L-L-W and Portsmouth's W-L-L-L-W.

Data as of 4 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 6'Goal · Callum LangPortsmouth · 0-1
  • 42'Yellow card · Andre DozzellPortsmouth
  • 44'Yellow card · Rhian BrewsterDerby County
  • 45'Own goal · Hayden MatthewsDerby County · 1-1

Head-to-head

10 meetings: Derby County 3, draws 6, Portsmouth 1.

Team news

Derby County line-up (3-4-1-2)

Jacob Widell Zetterström, Sondre Langås, Dion Sanderson, Matt Clarke, Joe Ward, Liam Thompson, Bobby Clark, Callum Elder, Rhian Brewster, Ben Brereton Díaz, Patrick Agyemang

Portsmouth line-up (4-2-3-1)

Nicolas Schmid, Terry Devlin, Hayden Matthews, Regan Poole, Jordan Williams, Andre Dozzell, Márk Kosznovszky, Callum Lang, Conor Mark Chaplin, Josh Murphy, Colby Bishop