Everton 3-1 Portsmouth: result and report

Premier League · Sunday 2 March 2008

Result

Everton 3-1 Portsmouth

Premier League · Sunday 2 March 2008, 16:00 UTC · half-time 1-1

Everton · Portsmouth · Premier League predictions

Everton 3-1 Portsmouth: match report

Everton beat Portsmouth 3-1 in the Premier League on Sunday 2 March 2008. It was 1-1 at half-time.

Yakubu Aiyegbeni opened the scoring in the 1st minute. Everton's goals came from Yakubu Aiyegbeni (1'), Tim Cahill (74') and Yakubu Aiyegbeni (81'). Portsmouth scored through Jermain Defoe (38').

Discipline: Everton received 1 yellow card; Portsmouth received 1 yellow card.

Going into the game Everton were 5th on 50 points from 27 and Portsmouth 9th on 44 points from 27. Everton went on to finish that season 5th with 65 points, and Portsmouth 8th with 57.

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 6 Everton wins, 1 draw and 2 for Portsmouth.

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

Data as of 3 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 1'Goal · Yakubu AiyegbeniEverton · 1-0
  • 32'Yellow card · Sylvain DistinPortsmouth
  • 38'Goal · Jermain DefoePortsmouth · 1-1
  • 65'Yellow card · Steven PienaarEverton
  • 74'Goal · Tim CahillEverton · 2-1
  • 81'Goal · Yakubu AiyegbeniEverton · 3-1

Head-to-head

9 meetings: Everton 6, draws 1, Portsmouth 2.

Team news

Everton expected line-up

Tim Howard, Joseph Yobo, Joleon Lescott, Leon Osman, James Beattie, James McFadden, Andy Johnson, Nuno Valente, Alan Stubbs, Lee Kevin Carsley

Portsmouth line-up (4-4-2)

Glen Johnson, Sylvain Distin, Lassana Diarra, Papa Diop, Sulley Muntari, Niko Kranjčar, Nwankwo Kanu, David James, Hermann Hreidarsson, Jermain Defoe, Sulzeer Campbell