{"id":663149,"date":"2025-12-30T19:57:18","date_gmt":"2025-12-30T19:57:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/663149\/"},"modified":"2025-12-30T19:57:18","modified_gmt":"2025-12-30T19:57:18","slug":"this-weeks-opposition-bristol-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/663149\/","title":{"rendered":"This Week’s Opposition: Bristol City"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n Photo Credit: Bristol City<\/p>\n

\n Pompey’s New Year’s Day opponents are put under the microscope by Express FM’s Jake Smith.\n <\/p>\n

It\u2019ll take some doing for Pompey to top a memorable night last time out, claiming victory right at the death at home to Charlton Athletic.<\/p>\n

Up next it\u2019s Bristol City away to kick-off 2026\u2026<\/p>\n

MANAGER<\/p>\n

The Robins are managed by Austrian Gerhard Struber, who took charge in June after Liam Manning was poached in the summer by Norwich City.<\/p>\n

Struber has won 11 of his 25 competitive games in charge so far, accruing a win percentage of 44.<\/p>\n

The 48-year-old has also previously led Barnsley, New York Red Bulls, RB Salzburg and most recently, 1. FC K\u00f6ln.<\/p>\n

ONE TO WATCH<\/p>\n

This time around, we think you should keep a close eye on Bristol City\u2019s number 10, Scott Twine.<\/p>\n

Twine joined the club in the summer of 2024 after a successful loan spell from Burnley at the back-end of the previous campaign.<\/p>\n

So far this term, the 26-year-old former Swindon Town and MK Dons midfielder has found the back of the net 6 times and provided 6 assists across all competitions.<\/p>\n

TOP SCORER\"Mehmeti_TWO\"<\/p>\n

Striker Anis Mehmeti is currently Bristol City\u2019s leading scorer with 7 goals to his name at this stage of the campaign.<\/p>\n

The Albanian, who wears the number 11 shirt, bagged the winner in the reverse fixture at Fratton Park in November and has also assisted 6 goals in the Championship this season.<\/p>\n

CURRENT FORM<\/p>\n

The Robins are currently sat 8th in the table, just 2 points adrift of the Play-Off places.<\/p>\n

Prior to Monday\u2019s night 2-1 defeat at Millwall, Gerhard Struber\u2019s side had won 2 games on the spin against Middlesbrough and West Bromwich Albion.<\/p>\n

In the Championship home form table, Bristol City sit 15th with 18 points collected off the back of 5 wins, 3 draws and 4 defeats.<\/p>\n

Can the Blues begin the New Year as they left off in 2025 – with a victory?<\/p>\n

Catch all of the unmissable action on Pompey Live from 2pm on New Year’s Day (Thursday) – Jake Smith, Kirsty Roxanne and Kev Stokes will be providing full coverage LIVE from Ashton Gate.<\/p>\n

Kick-off: 3pm!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Photo Credit: Bristol City Pompey’s New Year’s Day opponents are put under the microscope by Express FM’s Jake…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":663150,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8818],"tags":[147195,381,748,5554,393,147190,94,4884,147191,3462,147197,147198,147192,35554,147193,147196,16,15,147194],"class_list":{"0":"post-663149","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bristol","8":"tag-advertising-portsmouth","9":"tag-bristol","10":"tag-britain","11":"tag-community","12":"tag-england","13":"tag-express-fm-radio","14":"tag-football","15":"tag-great-britain","16":"tag-hampshire-music","17":"tag-local","18":"tag-marketing-portsmouth","19":"tag-passionately-portsmouth","20":"tag-pompey","21":"tag-portsmouth","22":"tag-portsmouth-news","23":"tag-radio-advertising-portsmouth","24":"tag-uk","25":"tag-united-kingdom","26":"tag-volunteer-radio"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115810287242379810","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=663149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663149\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/663150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=663149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=663149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=663149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}