Coventry City 2-0 Portsmouth: result and report

Championship · Saturday 24 March 2012

Result

Coventry City 2-0 Portsmouth

Championship · Saturday 24 March 2012, 15:00 UTC · half-time 0-0

Coventry City · Portsmouth · Championship predictions

Coventry City 2-0 Portsmouth: match report

Coventry City won against Portsmouth 2-0 in the Championship on Saturday 24 March 2012. The half-time score was 0-0.

Gary McSheffrey opened the scoring in the 55th minute. Coventry City's goals came from Gary McSheffrey (55') and Oliver Norwood (77'). Portsmouth did not score.

Discipline: Coventry City received 2 yellow cards; Portsmouth received 1 yellow card.

Going into the game Coventry City were 23rd on 32 points from 38 and Portsmouth 19th on 40 points from 37. Coventry City went on to finish that season 23rd with 40 points, and Portsmouth 18th with 50.

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

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

Data as of 4 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 55'Goal · Gary McSheffreyCoventry City · 1-0
  • 67'Yellow card · Richard KeoghCoventry City
  • 75'Yellow card · Gary McSheffreyCoventry City
  • 77'Goal · Oliver NorwoodCoventry City · 2-0
  • 81'Yellow card · Chris MaguirePortsmouth

Head-to-head

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

Team news

Coventry City line-up

Joe Murphy, Richard Keogh, Chris Hussey, Martin Cranie, Jordan Clarke, Sammy Clingan, Gary McSheffrey, Oliver Norwood, Conor Thomas, Alex Nimely, Clive Platt

Portsmouth line-up

Jamie Ashdown, Joel Ward, Ricardo Rocha, Jason Pearce, Greg Halford, Tal Ben Haim, Scott Allan, David Norris, George Thorne, Luke Varney, Chris Maguire