Manchester United 3-0 Portsmouth: result and report
Premier League · Saturday 4 November 2006
Result
Manchester United 3-0 Portsmouth
Premier League · Saturday 4 November 2006, 15:00 UTC · half-time 2-0
Manchester United 3-0 Portsmouth: match report
Manchester United beat Portsmouth 3-0 in the Premier League on Saturday 4 November 2006. It was 2-0 at half-time.
Louis Saha opened the scoring in the 2nd minute. Manchester United's goals came from Louis Saha (2', penalty), Cristiano Ronaldo (9') and Nemanja Vidic (65'). Portsmouth did not score.
Discipline: Manchester United received no yellow cards; Portsmouth received 1 yellow card.
Going into the game Manchester United were 1st on 25 points from 10 and Portsmouth 4th on 19 points from 10. Manchester United went on to finish that season 1st with 89 points, and Portsmouth 9th with 54.
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 4 Manchester United wins, 0 draws and 2 for Portsmouth.
Going into the match Manchester United's last five read W-W-W-W-D and Portsmouth's W-L-W-L-L.
Key events
- 2'Penalty goal · Louis Saha
- 9'Goal · Cristiano Ronaldo
- 44'Yellow card · Sean Davis
- 65'Goal · Nemanja Vidic
Head-to-head
Team news
Manchester United expected line-up
Edwin van der Sar, Rio Ferdinand, Wes Brown, John O'Shea, Patrice Evra, Kieran Richardson, Louis Saha, Cristiano Ronaldo, Ryan Giggs, Gary Neville
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