Pompey travel to Mansfield for their final away game of the season looking for a result that may take the League Two title race to the wire.
Team News
Stanley Aborah has been ruled out with a neck injury and will likely be replaced with Danny Rose but Paul Cook has no other fresh injury worries.
Steve Evans likewise has no new injury worries about his quad, with goalkeeper Scott Shearer the only long-term absentee.
The Match
Field Mill will be a tough place to go to as Mansfield still have a chance to finish in the play-offs, but they know failure to win tomorrow will likely end their promotion challenge.
The same could be said for Pompey, who know that failure to beat the Stags will likely end any lingering hopes of becoming League Two champions next weekend. Even if Paul Cook's men were to win, victory for Doncaster over Exeter would mean the end of an unlikely title charge.
Still, with both teams' seasons still alive, tomorrow's game should feature plenty of attacking football and that could well play into Pompey's hands. Expect the same starting eleven (bar Aborah) that started against Cambridge last weekend with Nicke Kabamba given another chance to prove himself.
Mansfield are tough to break down and have relied upon their steely defence to get through matches rather than an attack which has let them down in the past. If this game is to simply come down to which team is better going forward, the odds are in Portsmouth's favour.
Let's hope that Pompey can do the business and other results go our way. Doncaster and Plymouth losing would be excellent whilst a win for Hartlepool coupled with a defeat for Newport would give them some incentive to fight for their lives against Rovers next Saturday.
A draw at Field Mill tomorrow would be enough to take the title race to the final day if Donny lose against Exeter at home and Plymouth fail to beat Crewe at home. It should be noted that Pompey lost both of those corresponding fixtures 1-0 this season.
But there should be no reason why the Pompey fans travelling up north tomorrow can't be celebrating in Nottinghamshire once again tomorrow.
Predicted Starting Line-Ups
Mansfield
GK: Jake KEAN
RWB: Hayden WHITE
CB: Rhys BENNETT
CB: Krystian PEARCE
CB: George TAFT
LWB: Malvind BENNING
CM: Joel BYROM
CM: Benjamin WHITEMAN
RWF: Alex MacDONALD
LWF: Shaq COULTHIRST
CF: Danny ROSE
Pompey
GK: David FORDE
RB: Gareth EVANS
CB: Matt CLARKE
CB: Jack WHATMOUGH
LB: Enda STEVENS
DM: Michael DOYLE
DM: Danny ROSE
RM: Kyle BENNETT
AM: Carl BAKER
LM: Kal NAISMITH
CF: Nicke KABAMBA
Last Time: Mansfield Town 1 Portsmouth 1 (League Two - 19/03/2016)
Pompey didn't start this match well as Marc McNulty's penalty kick was saved and then Mansfield went straight down the other end and scored through Matt Green. Ryan Tafazoli's own goal later in the half levelled the scores and that's how the match finished.
My Prediction
This is a difficult game but Pompey are playing with such freedom and confidence right now that I'm backing them to edge the Stags and hopefully take the title race to the final day.
Mansfield Town 1 Portsmouth 2