Colchester United vs Portsmouth Predictions, Betting Tips and Match Previews

With Colchester chasing down a play-off place and Portsmouth occupying one of the automatic promotion spots, it promises to be an enticing encounter when the sides meet this weekend. For our tip we are backing Colchester to hold a half time lead, which is priced at an excellent 10/3 with bet365. For our correct score tip we think Pompey will be able to reverse the half time lead and we are backing them to claim a point with a 1-1 draw, which is priced at 11/2 with the same site.

Colchester boast one of the best home records in the entire division with 32 points coming from their 16 home games this season.  This average of two points per home game will largely come about from how strong they start games and they have held a half time lead in 66.4% of their matches this season and with just eight goals conceded in the first half of their home games it is easy to see why this stat is so high.

Portsmouth have a decent record on their travels and they have only suffered defeat in 28% of their matches on their travels. They do tend to have a bit of steel on their travels and often end a game strongly,with almost half of their goals in away matches coming in the final 15 minutes. Although they do tend to keep it tight in the opening stanza, they have scored just six times in the first half of their away games this season and they have held the lead at the break in just 11.2% of their games away from Fratton Park in the league this term.