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 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.
Key events
- 55'Goal · Gary McSheffrey
- 67'Yellow card · Richard Keogh
- 75'Yellow card · Gary McSheffrey
- 77'Goal · Oliver Norwood
- 81'Yellow card · Chris Maguire
Head-to-head
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