Cardiff City 3-0 Portsmouth: result and report

Championship · Saturday 16 April 2011

Result

Cardiff City 3-0 Portsmouth

Championship · Saturday 16 April 2011, 14:00 UTC · half-time 2-0

Cardiff City · Portsmouth · Championship predictions

Cardiff City 3-0 Portsmouth: match report

Cardiff City won against Portsmouth 3-0 in the Championship on Saturday 16 April 2011. The half-time score was 2-0.

Oluwaseyi Olofinjana opened the scoring in the 6th minute. Cardiff City's goals came from Oluwaseyi Olofinjana (6'), Jay Bothroyd (45') and Peter Whittingham (73'). Portsmouth did not score.

Discipline: Cardiff City received 1 yellow card; Portsmouth received 3 yellow cards and 1 red card.

Going into the game Cardiff City were 3rd on 72 points from 41 and Portsmouth 15th on 53 points from 41. Cardiff City went on to finish that season 4th with 81 points, and Portsmouth 16th with 56.

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 1 Cardiff City win, 0 draws and 0 for Portsmouth.

Going into the match Cardiff City's last five read W-W-W-D-D and Portsmouth's L-D-L-W-D.

Data as of 4 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 6'Goal · Oluwaseyi OlofinjanaCardiff City · 1-0
  • 13'Yellow card · Liam LawrencePortsmouth
  • 18'Red card · Ricardo RochaPortsmouth
  • 45'Goal · Jay BothroydCardiff City · 2-0
  • 60'Yellow card · David NugentPortsmouth
  • 61'Yellow card · Jlloyd SamuelCardiff City
  • 73'Goal · Peter WhittinghamCardiff City · 3-0
  • 88'Yellow card · Dave KitsonPortsmouth

Head-to-head

1 meetings: Cardiff City 1, draws 0, Portsmouth 0.

Team news

Cardiff City line-up

Stephen Bywater, Kevin McNaughton, Dekel Keinan, Paul Quinn, Peter Whittingham, Stephen McPhail, C. Burke, Oluwaseyi Olofinjana, Jlloyd Samuel, Craig Bellamy, Jay Bothroyd

Portsmouth line-up

Jamie Ashdown, Greg Halford, Ritchie De Laet, Joel Ward, Ricardo Rocha, Liam Lawrence, Jonathan Hogg, David Cotterill, David Nugent, Dave Kitson, Hermann Hreidarsson