Portsmouth v Bolton League One predictions, betting odds & tips: Leaders face tricky test against Trotters

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Where to watch Portsmouth v Bolton

You can watch Portsmouth v Bolton in League One on Monday December 11, live on Sky Sports Football & Main Event at 8pm

Match prediction & best bet

Bolton draw no bet
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Portsmouth v Bolton odds

Portsmouth 7-5
Bolton 2-1
Draw 5-2

Odds correct at time of publishing

Portsmouth v Bolton team news

Portsmouth 
Pompey striker Colby Bishop (ankle) has joined Anthony Scully, Tom Lowery, Tino Anjorin and Regan Poole on the sidelines. Marlon Pack and Connor Ogilvie will be assessed.

Bolton 
The Trotters are likely to be missing forward Dan Nlundulu as well as George Johnstone, who has been ruled out for the season.

Portsmouth v Bolton predictions

Bolton have won 13 of their last 15 matches in all competitions and they are worth backing to extend that superb run in their top-of-the-table clash with Portsmouth at Fratton Park.

Victory for the Trotters on the south coast would take them level on points with Pompey at the top of League One and the visitors look a solid draw-no-bet selection.

Bolton have conceded only one goal in their last nine matches in all competitions and that came in a 5-1 FA Cup second-round rout of Harrogate.

In their most recent league fixture they restricted promotion rivals Oxford to seven shots at goal in a 0-0 draw at the Kassam Stadium and their chances of another clean sheet at Portsmouth have been enhanced by the absence of the injured Colby Bishop.

The striker is Pompey's top scorer this season, contributing 11 of their 32 league goals, and the leaders had been in patchy form even with him in the team.

They won their last two league games away to Northampton and Burton but were thumped 4-0 by Blackpool in their most recent home match.

Charlton twice came from behind to draw 2-2 at Fratton Park last month and they needed an injury-time goal from defender Conor Shaughnessy to beat Carlisle 1-0 at home in late October.

John Mousinho's men also drew 0-0 at lowly Cambridge and lost 1-0 at National League side Chesterfield in the FA Cup in the past couple of months and Bolton are capable of inflicting only a second league defeat of the season on Portsmouth.

Key stat

Bolton have kept eight clean sheets in their last nine matches in all competitions

Probable teams

Portsmouth (4-2-3-1): Norris; Rafferty, Shaughnessy, Raggett, Sparkes; Robertson, Pack; Kamara, Saydee, Lane; Yengi
Subs: Schofield,Devlin, Whyte, Martin, Stevenson, Swanson, Towler

Bolton (3-4-1-2): Baxter; Jones, Santos, Toal; Dacres-Cogley, Sheehan, Thomason, Iredale; Maghoma; Charles, Adeboyejo
Subs: Coleman, Nlundulu, Dempsey, Bodvarsson, Gome, Morley, Forrester

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