World news – GB – Plymouth Argyle v Portsmouth Preview: How to watch, launch time, team news, expected squads, and which ones to watch

The weekly Round 1 matches will conclude on Monday evening when Plymouth Argyle welcomes Portsmouth to Home Park.

After receiving the promotion last season, Al Hajjaj have enjoyed their return to the third division so far and will be keen to build on their positive start to the season..

Plymouth’s victory in this match would raise them above Pompeii, who is currently sitting outside the qualifiers.. .

Plymouth will be without the main man Luke Givkot visiting Pompeii, as he is on an international assignment with the Wales U-21 team. Midfielder Lewis MacLeod is also set to miss, despite returning to training after testing negative for COVID-19..

Gary Sawyer is Argyle’s only other confirmed absentee, as the defender continues his recovery from ankle surgery.

Meanwhile, Portsmouth has been assigned to assess the fitness of several of its players prior to the trip to Devon. Shaun Raggett, Tom Naylor, Jack Watmo and Andy Cannon are all in doubt about injury in Monday’s game, but full-back Lee Brown has a good chance of returning to the squad for the round after recovering from a hamstring injury.. .

Striker Ronan Curtis will definitely not appear to Pompeii, as he is currently out of international service with the Republic of Ireland.

The two teams come to this match in fairly good shape, which is why they are competing with each other in the upper half of the League One table at this early stage of the season..

Argyle has lost just one of its last eight matches in all competitions. Their 3-1 victory over Newport County on Tuesday evening earned them their fifth consecutive home win. . Swindon Town was the last team to beat Plymouth in a league match at Home Park in January.

After winning four of their last five league matches, Portsmouth is seventh in the division. They beat the promoted Lincoln City in their last league game, before knocking out Ipswich Town from the FA Cup last weekend.. .

Since joining Plymouth in August, Frank Noble has appeared in every match in the club’s first league. The tough striker started the first of seven of those matches, before sitting on the bench for the last three matches.

Welsh striker Givkot has recently led the streak alongside Ryan Hardy, but the former is unavailable for the next match, which means Nobile is likely to start against Portsmouth.

The 29-year-old has scored only one goal in green and black so far, but he will undoubtedly be keen to top his tally by scoring in the Derby Shipyard. .

Midfielder Sean Raggett has always been in Portsmouth so far this season, starting every match in the League..

The former Lincoln City defender joined South Coast FC permanently in the summer and helped them keep clean sheets in four of his first 11 league games.. .

Raggett is also an apparent set-ball threat and scored his first goal of the season this past Saturday to seal Pompey’s extra-time win over Ipswich.

These two teams tied 1-1 when they last met in February 2019, with a free kick from Graham Curry earning a point for Plymouth.. . Earlier in the 2018/19 season, Argyle lost 3–0 to Pompey at Fratton Park, with Ronan Curtis scoring twice.. .

The Pilgrims savored their final victory over Portsmouth four and a half years ago, when center back Peter Hartley scored a header in stoppage time to send Devon to the second division final. . It’s a victory that Plymouth fans are fondly remembering, despite being defeated at Wembley in the final of the Wimbledon Asian Championships.. .

This match will kick off at 7:45 pm on Monday November 16th and will be streamed live on Sky Sports Football..

Speaking before the match, Portsmouth coach Kenny Jacket revealed that he expects his team to be subjected to a difficult test by Pilgrims, who lost their last league match in early January.. .

He said: “They are doing their best from all the rising teams from the second league. They have maintained continuous momentum since last season and we will look like us to go forward after putting themselves in a good position outside the qualifiers after the first quarter of the season..

“They are well organized, have good individuals and play without fear, and we think we will be at our best on Monday to win the match and we will pay our opponents all the respect.

« It’s live TV and we’ll want to give a good description of ourselves, if possible.

Plymouth also enjoys the prospect of playing in front of live TV cameras, according to its manager Ryan Lowe.

“It’s obviously great when Sky is here, and we really appreciate them coming because it’s something so important to us,” Lowe said. «  The good thing is a lot of people talk about us, how we play, our brand, our style.

“Home Park has been a bastion recently, since last January, and we want to keep it going. It is no coincidence that people want to come and see this.

« We want to show the ability we have, our philosophy and our playing style but we don’t want to get away from it because the cameras are here..

« We have to make sure that we stick to what we have been doing, and what makes us succeed, and we will definitely do so..

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