Manchester City 2-1 Portsmouth: result and report

Premier League · Saturday 27 August 2005

Result

Manchester City 2-1 Portsmouth

Premier League · Saturday 27 August 2005, 14:00 UTC · half-time 0-0

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Manchester City 2-1 Portsmouth: match report

Manchester City beat Portsmouth 2-1 in the Premier League on Saturday 27 August 2005. It was 0-0 at half-time.

Jhon Viáfara Mina opened the scoring in the 52nd minute. Manchester City's goals came from Claudio Reyna (66') and Andy Cole (69'). Portsmouth scored through Jhon Viáfara Mina (52').

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

Going into the game Manchester City were 3rd on 7 points from 3 and Portsmouth 16th on 1 point from 3. Manchester City went on to finish that season 15th with 43 points, and Portsmouth 17th with 38.

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

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

Data as of 3 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 16'Yellow card · Trevor SinclairManchester City
  • 52'Goal · Jhon Viáfara MinaPortsmouth · 0-1
  • 66'Goal · Claudio ReynaManchester City · 1-1
  • 69'Goal · Andy ColeManchester City · 2-1
  • 71'Yellow card · Jhon Viáfara MinaPortsmouth
  • 78'Yellow card · Richard HughesPortsmouth

Head-to-head

4 meetings: Manchester City 2, draws 1, Portsmouth 1.

Team news

Manchester City line-up

Ben Thatcher, Nedum Onuoha, Danny Mills, Richard Dunne, Claudio Reyna, Kizito Kiki Musampa, Trevor Sinclair, Andy Cole, Darius Vassell, David James, Joey Barton

Portsmouth expected line-up

Shaka Hislop, Dejan Stefanovic, Arjan de Zeeuw, Nigel Quashie, Patrik Berger, Richard Hughes, Alexei Smertin, Yakubu Aiyegbeni, Lomana Lualua, Steve Stone, Teddy Sheringham