Preston North End 1-0 Portsmouth: result and report

Championship · Saturday 7 February 2026

Result

Preston North End 1-0 Portsmouth

Championship · Saturday 7 February 2026, 15:01 UTC · half-time 1-0

Preston North End · Portsmouth · Championship predictions

Preston North End 1-0 Portsmouth: match report

Preston North End defeated Portsmouth 1-0 in the Championship on Saturday 7 February 2026. It was 1-0 at half-time.

The only goal came from Alfie Devine of Preston North End in the 40th minute.

Discipline: Preston North End received 3 yellow cards; Portsmouth received 1 yellow card.

Going into the game Preston North End were 9th on 44 points from 30 and Portsmouth 20th on 33 points from 28. Preston North End went on to finish that season 14th with 60 points, and Portsmouth 18th with 55.

Preston North End lined up in a 4-4-2 and Portsmouth in a 4-2-3-1. The highest match rating in our data went to David Cornell of Preston North End (7.5), ahead of O. Offiah (7.4).

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 2 Preston North End wins, 1 draw and 2 for Portsmouth.

Going into the match Preston North End's last five read D-L-L-L-W and Portsmouth's W-D-D-W-L.

Data as of 4 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 40'Goal · Alfie DevinePreston North End · 1-0
  • 71'Yellow card · Alistair Edward McCannPreston North End
  • 89'Yellow card · Jordan Andrew ThompsonPreston North End
  • 90'Yellow card · Aji AlesePortsmouth
  • 90'Yellow card · David CornellPreston North End

Head-to-head

5 meetings: Preston North End 2, draws 1, Portsmouth 2.

Team news

Preston North End line-up (4-4-2)

David Cornell, O. Offiah, Jordan Storey, Lewis Gibson, Andrija Vukcevic, Thierry Small, Ali McCann, Ben Whiteman, Alfie Devine, Lewis Dobbin, Milos Lukovic

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

Nicolas Schmid, Terry Devlin, Regan Poole, Connor Ogilvie, Zak Swanson, Andre Dozzell, Ebou Adams, Adrian Segečić, Conor Mark Chaplin, Millenic Alli, Jacob Brown