Portsmouth 0-1 Chelsea: result and report
Premier League · Tuesday 3 March 2009
Result
Portsmouth 0-1 Chelsea
Premier League · Tuesday 3 March 2009, 19:45 UTC · half-time 0-0
Portsmouth 0-1 Chelsea: match report
Portsmouth lost to Chelsea 0-1 in the Premier League on Tuesday 3 March 2009. The half-time score was 0-0.
The only goal came from Didier Drogba of Chelsea in the 79th minute.
Neither side received a card.
Going into the game Portsmouth were 16th on 28 points from 26 and Chelsea 2nd on 55 points from 27. Portsmouth went on to finish that season 14th with 41 points, and Chelsea 3rd with 83.
Portsmouth lined up in a 4-4-2 and Chelsea in a 4-3-3.
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 0 Portsmouth wins, 1 draw and 9 for Chelsea.
Going into the match Portsmouth's last five read D-W-L-L-L and Chelsea's W-W-D-L-W.
Key events
- 79'Goal · Didier Drogba
Head-to-head
Team news
Portsmouth line-up (4-4-2)
Glen Johnson, Sylvain Distin, Jermaine Pennant, Niko Kranjčar, Sean Davis, Peter Crouch, David Nugent, David James, Hayden Mullins, Hermann Hreidarsson, Sulzeer Campbell
Chelsea expected line-up (4-3-3)
Petr Čech, Wayne Bridge, Ricardo Carvalho, Michael Ballack, Florent Malouda, Shaun Wright-Phillips, Nicolas Anelka, Juliano Haus Belletti, Claude Makélélé