Portsmouth vs Middlesbrough LIVE: Latest Championship results, goals and updates from the game

Follow live coverage as Portsmouth take on Middlesbrough in the Championship today.

The increasingly competitive second tier of English football remains an intense and exciting competition, with a place in the Premier League awarded as a prize at the end of the season.

Relegation from the top flight last season means Luton, Burnley and Sheffield United are all back in the second tier this season and expected to fight for the play-off places again, but so is Norwich City, an improving one Coventry and beaten, will also do play-off finalists Leeds United. At the other end of the table, Wayne Rooney is looking to revive Plymouth’s fortunes after they narrowly avoided relegation last year. Portsmouth and Derby are the promoted teams from League One as well as the play-off final winners Oxford.

Follow live updates from today’s game in the live blog below.

Portsmouth FC 0 – 0 Middlesbrough FC

Portsmouth vs Middlesbrough

3:46 p.m

Foul by Ben Doak (Middlesbrough).

Portsmouth vs Middlesbrough

3:46 p.m

Connor Ogilvie (Portsmouth) receives a free kick in the defensive half.

Portsmouth vs Middlesbrough

3:45 p.m

Josh Murphy (Portsmouth) wins a free kick in the defensive half.

Portsmouth vs Middlesbrough

15:43

Attempt failed. Josh Murphy (Portsmouth) hits with his left foot from outside the box following a corner.

Portsmouth vs Middlesbrough

15:43

Attempt blocked. Callum Lang (Portsmouth)’s right-footed shot from distance is blocked.

Portsmouth vs Middlesbrough

15:42

Corner, Portsmouth. Goal conceded by George Edmundson.

Portsmouth vs Middlesbrough

15:41

Attempt saved. Callum Lang (Portsmouth) tries with his right foot from the center of the box, the shot is saved.

Portsmouth vs Middlesbrough

3:40 p.m

Attempt failed. Freddie Potts (Portsmouth) tries with his right foot from outside the box, but the ball misses to the right.

Portsmouth vs Middlesbrough

3:38 p.m

Offside, Portsmouth. Colby Bishop is offside.

Portsmouth vs Middlesbrough

3:37 p.m

Offside, Middlesbrough. Emmanuel Latte Lath is offside.

Portsmouth vs Middlesbrough

3:37 p.m

Corner, Middlesbrough. Indebted to Nicolas Schmid.

Portsmouth vs Middlesbrough

3:37 p.m

Attempt saved. Emmanuel Latte Lath (Middlesbrough) right footed shot from distance is saved to the bottom left.

Portsmouth vs Middlesbrough

3:35 p.m

The first half begins.

Portsmouth vs Middlesbrough

2:30 p.m

The lineups are announced and the players warm up.

Portsmouth vs Middlesbrough

1:00 p.m

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