Portsmouth 2-1 Cardiff City: result and report

Championship · Tuesday 11 February 2025

Result

Portsmouth 2-1 Cardiff City

Championship · Tuesday 11 February 2025, 19:45 UTC · half-time 2-1

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Portsmouth 2-1 Cardiff City: match report

Portsmouth won against Cardiff City 2-1 in the Championship on Tuesday 11 February 2025. The half-time score was 2-1.

Colby Bishop opened the scoring in the 9th minute. Portsmouth's goals came from Colby Bishop (9') and Conor Shaughnessy (17'). Cardiff City scored through Callum O'Dowda (22').

Discipline: Portsmouth received 2 yellow cards; Cardiff City received 2 yellow cards.

Going into the game Portsmouth were 20th on 30 points from 31 and Cardiff City 19th on 31 points from 30. Portsmouth went on to finish that season 16th with 54 points, and Cardiff City 24th with 44.

Portsmouth lined up in a 4-2-3-1 and Cardiff City in a 3-5-2. The highest match rating in our data went to Callum O'Dowda of Cardiff City (8.4), ahead of Dimitrios Goutas (8.1).

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 1 Portsmouth win, 2 draws and 4 for Cardiff City.

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

Data as of 4 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 9'Goal · Colby BishopPortsmouth · 1-0
  • 17'Goal · Conor ShaughnessyPortsmouth · 2-0
  • 22'Goal · Callum O'DowdaCardiff City · 2-1
  • 75'Yellow card · Callum LangPortsmouth
  • 76'Yellow card · Dimitrios GoutasCardiff City
  • 90+2'Yellow card · Connor OgilviePortsmouth
  • 90+5'Yellow card · Yousef SalechCardiff City

Head-to-head

7 meetings: Portsmouth 1, draws 2, Cardiff City 4.

Team news

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Portsmouth line-up (4-2-3-1)

Nicolas Schmid, Zak Swanson, Conor Shaughnessy, Rob Atkinson, Connor Ogilvie, Isaac Hayden, Andre Dozzell, Matt Ritchie, Callum Lang, Josh Murphy, Colby Bishop

Cardiff City line-up (3-5-2)

Jak Alnwick, Dimitrios Goutas, Will Fish, Joel Bagan, Andrew Farai Rinomhota, Calum Chambers, Joe Ralls, Sivert Mannsverk, Callum O'Dowda, Cian Ashford, Callum Robinson