Cardiff City 3-2 Portsmouth: result and report

Championship · Saturday 21 January 2012

Result

Cardiff City 3-2 Portsmouth

Championship · Saturday 21 January 2012, 15:00 UTC · half-time 1-1

Cardiff City · Portsmouth · Championship predictions

Cardiff City 3-2 Portsmouth: match report

Cardiff City defeated Portsmouth 3-2 in the Championship on Saturday 21 January 2012. It was 1-1 at half-time.

Kenny Miller opened the scoring in the 14th minute. Cardiff City's goals came from Kenny Miller (14'), M. Hudson (69') and Craig Conway (90'). Portsmouth scored through M. Futács (39') and Greg Halford (49').

Discipline: Cardiff City received no yellow cards; Portsmouth received 1 yellow card.

Going into the game Cardiff City were 3rd on 46 points from 26 and Portsmouth 17th on 31 points from 25. Cardiff City went on to finish that season 6th with 75 points, and Portsmouth 18th with 50.

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 2 Cardiff City wins, 1 draw and 0 for Portsmouth.

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

Data as of 4 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 14'Goal · Kenny MillerCardiff City · 1-0
  • 39'Goal · M. FutácsPortsmouth · 1-1
  • 49'Goal · Greg HalfordPortsmouth · 1-2
  • 65'Yellow card · M. FutácsPortsmouth
  • 69'Goal · M. HudsonCardiff City · 2-2
  • 90'Goal · Craig ConwayCardiff City · 3-2

Head-to-head

3 meetings: Cardiff City 2, draws 1, Portsmouth 0.

Team news

Cardiff City line-up

Txiki Acaz, Andrew Taylor, Darcy Blake, Ben Turner, Peter Whittingham, D. Cowie, Craig Conway, Aron Gunnarsson, Joe Mason, Mark Hudson, Kenny Miller

Portsmouth line-up

Joel Ward, Jason Pearce, Greg Halford, Tal Ben Haim, Liam Lawrence, Kelvin Etuhu, Márkó Futács, Erik Huseklepp, Dave Kitson, Hayden Mullins, Stephen Henderson