Burnley v Portsmouth Prediction: Home team are favorites

Burnley will welcome Portsmouth at Turf Moor in an English Championship match week 6. At Turf Moor, the home team is favorite for this match. Who will win after 90 minutes?

Burnley are away to a flying start in their bid to return to the Premier League as they comprehensively won their first two league matches against Luton Town and Cardiff City. Even when they hit a roadblock after losing 1-0 to Sunderland and then held Blackburn Rovers to a 1-1 draw, they came back strong against Leeds United and emerged 1-0 winners through Luca Koleosho's solitary goal. They have taken seven points from five matches, making them the third-highest scorers in the Championship and possessing one of the best defensive records, having conceded just three. On Saturday, they play Portsmouth for the first time since that 5-1 win in March 2012.

Meslier; Roberts, Worrall, Esteve, Pires; Laurent, Brownhill; Koleosho, Mejbri, Anthony; Flemming

Portsmouth have faced some challenges in finding their feet during their inaugural season in the Championship since 2011-12, after gaining promotion last season when they won League One. They are one of just three teams who have not achieved a first league win this season and have three draws and two defeats from their first five Championship games. It has been a disastrous run of form for the side following three successive draws against Leeds United, Luton Town, and Middlesbrough and a 3-1 home defeat at the hands of Sunderland. Their latest home fixture against West Bromwich Albion gave way to a 3-0 defeat and leaves them sitting in 23rd place with one of the worst defensive records in the league. Portsm thin on the confidence stakes with Portsmouth not having played at Turf Moor since December 2011, but Portsmouth are unbeaten in their last eight away games at Burnley.

Norris; Swanson, Williams, McIntyre, Ogilvie; Pack, Dozzell; Blair, Lang, Murphy; Saydee

Burnley have not won at home to Portsmouth in a competitive game since February 1982, but we feel that will change this afternoon against a Portsmouth side that should be nursing two losses on the trot at The Hawthorns and another at Goodison Park.