How to watch Southampton vs Portsmouth in EFL Championship: South Coast Derby preview, TV channels, team news

The EFL Championship returns from the international break this weekend and one of the most hotly anticipated fixtures of the season has arrived: Southampton vs Portsmouth, or as most football fans know it, The South Coast Derby.

These two teams, separated by just 16 miles, have one of the longest-standing rivalries in English football, but we have been starved of it in recent seasons due to Pompey’s failures. John Mousinho’s side were in League Two as recently as 2017, but now they are back where they belong and will be aiming to upset their noisy neighbours. The Fratton Park faithful will be reasonably pleased with their start to 25/26, as not only do they sit above the Saints, but they have managed seven points from 12 so far. New signing Adrian Segecic has been particularly impressive, netting against Oxford and Norwich ...