Birmingham City 2-0 Portsmouth: result and report
Premier League · Saturday 27 September 2003
Result
Birmingham City 2-0 Portsmouth
Premier League · Saturday 27 September 2003, 14:00 UTC · half-time 1-0
Birmingham City 2-0 Portsmouth: match report
Birmingham City beat Portsmouth 2-0 in the Premier League on Saturday 27 September 2003. It was 1-0 at half-time.
Stephen Clemence opened the scoring in the 21st minute. Birmingham City's goals came from Stephen Clemence (21') and Stan Lazaridis (50'). Portsmouth did not score.
Discipline: Birmingham City received 1 yellow card; Portsmouth received 2 yellow cards.
Going into the game Birmingham City were 7th on 11 points from 5 and Portsmouth 8th on 9 points from 6. Birmingham City went on to finish that season 10th with 50 points, and Portsmouth 13th with 45.
Going into the match Birmingham City's last five read W-D-W-D-W and Portsmouth's L-D-D-W-D.
Key events
- 21'Goal · Stephen Clemence
- 33'Yellow card · Amdy Faye
- 50'Goal · Stan Lazaridis
- 74'Yellow card · Aliou Cissé
- 83'Yellow card · Tim Sherwood
Team news
Birmingham City line-up
Maik Taylor, Kenny Cunningham, Jamie Clapham, Matthew Upson, Robbie Savage, Stephen Clemence, Mikael Forssell, Stan Lazaridis, Christophe Dugarry, David Dunn, Damien Johnson