Portsmouth 3-1 Crystal Palace: result and report
Premier League · Saturday 11 September 2004
Result
Portsmouth 3-1 Crystal Palace
Premier League · Saturday 11 September 2004, 16:15 UTC · half-time 1-1
Portsmouth 3-1 Crystal Palace: match report
Portsmouth beat Crystal Palace 3-1 in the Premier League on Saturday 11 September 2004. It was 1-1 at half-time.
Ricardo Fuller opened the scoring in the 3rd minute. Portsmouth's goals came from Ricardo Fuller (3'), Patrik Berger (47') and an own goal by Anthony Popovic (85'). Crystal Palace scored through Danny Granville (43').
Discipline: Portsmouth received no yellow cards; Crystal Palace received 2 yellow cards.
Going into the game Portsmouth were 13th on 4 points from 3 and Crystal Palace 20th on 1 point from 4. Portsmouth went on to finish that season 16th with 39 points, and Crystal Palace 18th with 33.
Going into the match Portsmouth's last five read W-L-D and Crystal Palace's L-L-L-D.
Key events
- 3'Goal · Ricardo Fuller
- 43'Goal · Danny Granville
- 47'Goal · Patrik Berger
- 80'Yellow card · Fitz Hall
- 85'Own goal · Anthony Popovic
- 89'Yellow card · Shaun Derry
Team news
Portsmouth expected line-up
Shaka Hislop, Dejan Stefanovic, Arjan de Zeeuw, Boris Zivkovic, Nigel Quashie, Patrik Berger, Alexei Smertin, Yakubu Aiyegbeni, Lomana Lualua, Steve Stone, Teddy Sheringham