Oxford United host Portsmouth in the Championship on Saturday for their first game of the new 2025/26 season.
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The odds reflect how this game could go really as neither side are huge favourites to win the match.
Oxford are narrowly ahead of Pompey, partly because they are the home side, for this opening game of the season.
Both sides finished just a point off of each other in last season’s Championship campaign.
Having both been promoted the season before from League One – Portsmouth by winning the title and Oxford via a 5th place play-off victory.
As such Oxford somewhat over performed in the end and Portsmouth will have been disappointed to finish just a point ahead of their former League One rivals.
United were struggling through most of the season but seemed to find their way in the last third of the campaign, getting further and further away from relegation talks before eventually sealing safety.
They did only finish four points adrift of the drop but it made it much less likely with as many as four teams still finishing below them and also avoiding relegation.
Now with a season behind both teams they will be eager to progress further starting off with this important opener.
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