Portsmouth hand debuts to two summer signings for season opener at West Ham United
The Blues have named two debutants for their first match of the 2026-27 season
Pompey hand debuts to two of their summer signings for the season opener against West Ham.
Rocco Shein and Luke Brooke-Adams are both named in the Blues’ starting XI for this afternoon’s Carabao Cup first-round clash, which marks the first fixture of the 2026-27 campaign.
Meanwhile, fellow new recruits Daniel Bielica, Odin Bailey, Marko Milovanovic and Eoin Kenny are all named on John Mousinho’s bench.
With injuries yet again impacting team selection, Adrian Segecic will operate on the right wing, with Ebou Adams serving as the advanced central midfielder.
While Bielica is preferred to Ben Killip as Pompey’s back-up goalkeeper on a bench which also contains three centre-halves in Hayden Matthews, Josh Knight and Madiodio Dia.
Elsewhere, Josh Murphy, Harvey Blair, Franco Umeh, Josef Bursik, Marlon Park, Jacob Farrell and Keshi Anderson continue to be absent through injury.
Pompey: Schmid, Devlin, Poole, Shaughnessy, Swanson, Shein, Le Roux, Segecic, Adams, Brooke-Smith, Bishop.
Subs: Bielica, Knight, Swift, Matthews, Waddingham, Bailey, Milovanovic, Kenny, Dia.