John Mousinho is hoping Fratton Park will be at its intimidating best for the visit of Sheffield United today.

Sheffield United extended their unbeaten start to the Sky Bet Championship season and made it a whole month without conceding after holding winless Portsmouth to a 0-0 draw at Fratton Park.

Sheffield United will be the favourites going into this weekend’s clash given their form compared to Portsmouth’s. Chris Wilder’s side remain unbeaten after the first six games of the campaign, and will have their sights set on a top two finish in the Championship this year.

If life had taken a slightly different path, Chris Wilder could have been welcoming his boyhood club Sheffield United to Portsmouth this weekend. The Blades chief was interviewed for the Fratton Park job just over a decade ago,

John Mourinho is the figure who would lead the Fratton outfit back to the second tier after a 12-year absence and while the Pompey chimes have not yet rang out to herald a league win so far in 2024-25, the football antennae of Wilder is alive to the prospect of that happening if the attitude of his Blades side is not spot-on tomorrow.

Sheffield United manager Chris Wilder has no concerns over Portsmouth’s ability to survive in the Championship based on their performance in Saturday’s 0-0 draw at Fratton Park. Pompey remain winless from their opening seven games but carved out another hard-fought point on the south coast against an unbeaten Blades outfit,

United more than played their part in an engaging encounter on the south coast, with Gus Hamer denied a third goal in three games by a superb Will Norris save on the line before his opposite number, United’s Michael Cooper, topped it with a remarkable stop of his own to keep out Marlon Pack’s free-kick on the stroke of half-time.