Portsmouth 1-1 Birmingham City: result and report
Premier League · Saturday 17 September 2005
Result
Portsmouth 1-1 Birmingham City
Premier League · Saturday 17 September 2005, 14:00 UTC · half-time 1-1
Portsmouth 1-1 Birmingham City: match report
Portsmouth drew with Birmingham City 1-1 in the Premier League on Saturday 17 September 2005. It was 1-1 at half-time.
Trésor Lomana LuaLua opened the scoring in the 4th minute. Portsmouth's goal came from Trésor Lomana LuaLua (4'). Birmingham City scored through Jiri Jarosik (6').
Discipline: Portsmouth received 2 yellow cards; Birmingham City received no yellow cards and 1 red card.
Going into the game Portsmouth were 15th on 4 points from 5 and Birmingham City 16th on 4 points from 5. Portsmouth went on to finish that season 17th with 38 points, and Birmingham City 18th with 34.
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 1 Portsmouth win, 2 draws and 1 for Birmingham City.
Going into the match Portsmouth's last five read W-L-D-L-L and Birmingham City's L-W-L-L-D.
Key events
- 4'Goal · Trésor Lomana LuaLua
- 6'Goal · Jiri Jarosik
- 45'Yellow card · Debray Silva Pereira
- 45'Red card · Nicky Butt
- 74'Yellow card · Salif Diao
Head-to-head
Team news
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
Birmingham City line-up
Maik Taylor, Kenny Cunningham, Matthew Upson, Olivier Tebily, Jermaine Pennant, Julian Gray, Mikael Forssell, Emile Heskey, Jirí Jarosík, Nicky Butt, Damien Johnson