Bristol City welcome Portsmouth to Ashton Gate on Sunday with the visitors hoping to repeat the score line from the two teams’ previous encounter.
Then, a 3-0 win on the south coast helped Pompey climb off the foot of the table, and John Mousinho’s men have jumped another two places since then despite losing to Watford in the dying embers of their Boxing Day encounter.
Bristol City come into this off the back of a much-needed festive victory that snapped a four-match winless run.
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Bristol City are unbeaten in their last six home league matches against Portsmouth (W2 D4) since losing 2-0 back in 1991.
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Portsmouth are looking to win consecutive league games against Bristol City for the first time since April 1992.
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Bristol City have ended their calendar year with a goalless draw in each of the last two years, drawing 0-0 with Millwall in 2022 and 0-0 with Birmingham in 2023.
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Portsmouth have only ended their calendar year with a defeat in one of the last 11 years (W4 D6), losing 3-1 to MK Dons in 2019.
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Portsmouth have lost just two of their last 16 league games against ‘City’ sides (W8 D7), with those defeats coming at the hands of Stoke and Cardiff in October this season.