Pick of the stats: Portsmouth v Cardiff City
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Portsmouth are looking to recover from four games without a win (D1 L3) when they welcome fellow Championship relegation battlers Cardiff City on Tuesday night (19:45 GMT).
Pompey suffered a 2-1 defeat at Sheffield United on Saturday and are two points above the drop zone in 20th, while Cardiff are 19th and three points clear of the bottom three.
Portsmouth have won just one of their past 13 league games against Cardiff City (D6 L6), failing to score in eight of those matches.
Cardiff City are unbeaten across their past six away league games against Portsmouth (W1 D5) since a 1-0 defeat at Fratton Park in January 1974.
Portsmouth have lost just one of their past nine home league games (W6 D2), although they've failed to score in their past two, last going three without a goal at Fratton Park in March 2014 against Cheltenham, Burton and York in League Two.
Cardiff lost their past Championship match 7-0 at Leeds United, their heaviest league defeat since losing 9-0 to Preston North End in May 1966. The last Championship side to lose by seven goals before Cardiff were Luton against Fulham in May 2022 (0-7), who followed that up with a 1-0 win over Reading.
Cardiff's Callum Robinson has scored in all three of his Championship appearances against newly promoted sides this season, while he has eight goals and eight assists in his past 21 Championship games against promoted teams.