Portsmouth 2-1 Crystal Palace: result and report

Championship · Tuesday 17 April 2012

Result

Portsmouth 2-1 Crystal Palace

Championship · Tuesday 17 April 2012, 18:45 UTC · half-time 1-0

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Portsmouth 2-1 Crystal Palace: match report

Portsmouth won against Crystal Palace 2-1 in the Championship on Tuesday 17 April 2012. The half-time score was 1-0.

S. Allan opened the scoring in the 32nd minute. Portsmouth's goals came from S. Allan (32') and Greg Halford (55'). Crystal Palace scored through Darren Ambrose (71', penalty).

Discipline: Portsmouth received 1 yellow card; Crystal Palace received no yellow cards.

Going into the game Portsmouth were 19th on 47 points from 43 and Crystal Palace 16th on 55 points from 43. Portsmouth went on to finish that season 18th with 50 points, and Crystal Palace 17th with 56.

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 3 Portsmouth wins, 1 draw and 1 for Crystal Palace.

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

Data as of 4 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 32'Goal · S. AllanPortsmouth · 1-0
  • 55'Goal · Greg HalfordPortsmouth · 2-0
  • 71'Penalty goal · Darren AmbroseCrystal Palace · 2-1
  • 74'Yellow card · D. NorrisPortsmouth

Head-to-head

5 meetings: Portsmouth 3, draws 1, Crystal Palace 1.

Team news

Portsmouth line-up

Jamie Ashdown, Joel Ward, Ricardo Rocha, Jason Pearce, Greg Halford, Karim Rekik, Scott Allan, David Norris, Luke Varney, Dave Kitson, Chris Maguire

Crystal Palace line-up

Julián Speroni, Nathaniel Clyne, Dean Moxey, Paul McShane, Owen Garvan, Stuart O'Keefe, Wilfried Zaha, Antonio Pedroza, Chris Martin, Jonathan Parr, Patrick McCarthy