Birmingham City 0-2 Portsmouth: result and report
Premier League · Saturday 24 November 2007
Result
Birmingham City 0-2 Portsmouth
Premier League · Saturday 24 November 2007, 15:00 UTC · half-time 0-1
Birmingham City 0-2 Portsmouth: match report
Birmingham City lost to Portsmouth 0-2 in the Premier League on Saturday 24 November 2007. The half-time score was 0-1.
Sulley Muntari opened the scoring in the 34th minute. Birmingham City did not score. Portsmouth scored through Sulley Muntari (34') and Niko Kranjčar (82').
Discipline: Birmingham City received 3 yellow cards; Portsmouth received 2 yellow cards.
Going into the game Birmingham City were 15th on 11 points from 13 and Portsmouth 6th on 23 points from 13. Birmingham City went on to finish that season 19th with 35 points, and Portsmouth 8th with 57.
Birmingham City lined up in a 4-4-2 and Portsmouth in a 4-5-1.
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 2 Birmingham City wins, 3 draws and 1 for Portsmouth.
Going into the match Birmingham City's last five read L-L-W-L-L and Portsmouth's D-W-D-W-W.
Key events
- 34'Goal · Sulley Muntari
- 40'Yellow card · Sean Davis
- 58'Yellow card · Gary McSheffrey
- 74'Yellow card · Narcisse-Olivier Kapo Obou
- 76'Yellow card · Mehdi Nafti
- 82'Goal · Niko Kranjčar
- 90+2'Yellow card · Benjamin Mwaruwari
Head-to-head
Team news
Birmingham City line-up (4-4-2)
Richard Kingson, Stephen Kelly, Rafael Schmitz, Liam Ridgewell, Johan Djourou, Gary McSheffrey, Fabrice Muamba, Mikael Forssell, Daniel De Ridder, Narcisse-Olivier Kapo Obou, Mehdi Nafti
Portsmouth line-up (4-5-1)
Glen Johnson, Sylvain Distin, Noé Pamarot, Papa Diop, Sulley Muntari, Niko Kranjčar, Sean Davis, John Utaka, Benjamin Mwaruwari, David James, Sulzeer Campbell