Manchester United 2-1 Portsmouth: result and report
Premier League · Saturday 26 February 2005
Result
Manchester United 2-1 Portsmouth
Premier League · Saturday 26 February 2005, 17:15 UTC · half-time 1-0
Manchester United 2-1 Portsmouth: match report
Manchester United beat Portsmouth 2-1 in the Premier League on Saturday 26 February 2005. It was 1-0 at half-time.
Wayne Mark Rooney opened the scoring in the 8th minute. Manchester United's goals came from Wayne Mark Rooney (8') and Wayne Mark Rooney (81'). Portsmouth scored through Gary O'Neil (47').
Discipline: Manchester United received 1 yellow card; Portsmouth received 2 yellow cards.
Going into the game Manchester United were 2nd on 59 points from 27 and Portsmouth 14th on 30 points from 27. Manchester United went on to finish that season 3rd with 77 points, and Portsmouth 16th with 39.
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 1 Manchester United win, 0 draws and 2 for Portsmouth.
Going into the match Manchester United's last five read W-W-W-W-W and Portsmouth's L-L-W-L-L.
Key events
- 8'Goal · Wayne Mark Rooney
- 47'Goal · Gary O'Neil
- 79'Yellow card · Phil Neville
- 80'Yellow card · Matthew Taylor
- 81'Goal · Wayne Mark Rooney
- 87'Yellow card · Andy Griffin
Head-to-head
Team news
Manchester United expected line-up
Roy Carroll, Wes Brown, Rio Ferdinand, Darren Fletcher, Quinton Fortune Kolobea, Louis Saha, Cristiano Ronaldo, Gary Neville, Ruud van Nistelrooy
Portsmouth expected line-up
Shaka Hislop, Dejan Stefanovic, Arjan de Zeeuw, Boris Zivkovic, Nigel Quashie, Patrik Berger, Alexei Smertin, Yakubu Aiyegbeni, Lomana Lualua, Steve Stone, Teddy Sheringham