Portsmouth 0-1 Doncaster Rovers: result and report

League One · Saturday 17 October 2020

Result

Portsmouth 0-1 Doncaster Rovers

League One · Saturday 17 October 2020, 14:00 UTC · half-time 0-0

Portsmouth · Doncaster Rovers · League One predictions

Portsmouth 0-1 Doncaster Rovers: match report

Portsmouth were beaten by Doncaster Rovers 0-1 in the League One on Saturday 17 October 2020. It was 0-0 at half-time.

The only goal came from Reece James of Doncaster Rovers in the 79th minute.

Discipline: Portsmouth received 1 yellow card; Doncaster Rovers received 3 yellow cards.

Going into the game Portsmouth were 9th on 8 points from 5 and Doncaster Rovers 11th on 7 points from 4. Portsmouth went on to finish that season 8th with 72 points, and Doncaster Rovers 14th with 64.

Portsmouth lined up in a 4-2-3-1 and Doncaster Rovers in a 4-2-3-1. The highest match rating in our data went to Josef Bursik of Doncaster Rovers (8.3), ahead of Madger Gomes (8.0).

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 3 Portsmouth wins, 0 draws and 1 for Doncaster Rovers.

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

Data as of 5 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 11'Yellow card · Reece JamesDoncaster Rovers
  • 38'Yellow card · Marcus HarnessPortsmouth
  • 45+2'Yellow card · Joe WrightDoncaster Rovers
  • 79'Goal · Reece JamesDoncaster Rovers · 0-1
  • 90+1'Yellow card · Madger GomesDoncaster Rovers

Head-to-head

4 meetings: Portsmouth 3, draws 0, Doncaster Rovers 1.

Team news

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

Craig MacGillivray, Callum Johnson, Jack Whatmough, Sean Raggett, Lee Brown, Tom Naylor, Ben Close, Marcus Harness, Andy Cannon, Ronan Curtis, Ellis Harrison

Doncaster Rovers line-up (4-2-3-1)

Josef Bursik, Brad Halliday, Joe Wright, Tom Anderson, Cameron John, Madger Gomes, Ben Whiteman, Jon Taylor, James Coppinger, Reece James, Fejiri Okenabirhie