Portsmouth 4-1 Birmingham City: result and report

Championship · Tuesday 20 March 2012

Result

Portsmouth 4-1 Birmingham City

Championship · Tuesday 20 March 2012, 19:45 UTC · half-time 0-1

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Portsmouth 4-1 Birmingham City: match report

Portsmouth beat Birmingham City 4-1 in the Championship on Tuesday 20 March 2012. The half-time score was 0-1.

Nikola Zigic opened the scoring in the 7th minute. Portsmouth's goals came from Chris Maguire (54'), D. Norris (59'), Kelvin Etuhu (77') and M. Futács (90+2'). Birmingham City scored through Nikola Zigic (7').

Discipline: Portsmouth received no yellow cards; Birmingham City received 2 yellow cards and 1 red card.

Going into the game Portsmouth were 19th on 37 points from 36 and Birmingham City 4th on 59 points from 36. Portsmouth went on to finish that season 18th with 50 points, and Birmingham City 5th with 77.

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 3 Portsmouth wins, 3 draws and 4 for Birmingham City.

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

Data as of 4 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 7'Goal · Nikola ZigicBirmingham City · 0-1
  • 38'Yellow card · David MurphyBirmingham City
  • 52'Yellow card · Curtis DaviesBirmingham City
  • 54'Goal · Chris MaguirePortsmouth · 1-1
  • 58'Second yellow · David MurphyBirmingham City
  • 59'Goal · D. NorrisPortsmouth · 2-1
  • 77'Goal · Kelvin EtuhuPortsmouth · 3-1
  • 90+2'Goal · M. FutácsPortsmouth · 4-1

Head-to-head

10 meetings: Portsmouth 3, draws 3, Birmingham City 4.

Team news

Portsmouth line-up

Jamie Ashdown, Joel Ward, Ricardo Rocha, Jason Pearce, Greg Halford, Tal Ben Haim, Scott Allan, David Norris, George Thorne, Luke Varney, Chris Maguire

Birmingham City line-up

Boaz Myhill, David Murphy, Steven Caldwell, Peter Ramage, Curtis Davies, C. Burke, Guirane N'Daw, Keith Fahey, Marlon King, Andros Townsend, Nikola Zigic