Portsmouth 2-0 Hartlepool United: result and report

League Two · Saturday 12 December 2015

Result

Portsmouth 2-0 Hartlepool United

League Two · Saturday 12 December 2015, 15:00 UTC · half-time 2-0

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Portsmouth 2-0 Hartlepool United: match report

Portsmouth beat Hartlepool United 2-0 in the League Two on Saturday 12 December 2015. It was 2-0 at half-time.

Caolan Lavery opened the scoring in the 32nd minute. Portsmouth's goals came from Caolan Lavery (32'), an own goal by Adam Jackson (37'), Gareth Evans (61') and Marc McNulty (90'). Hartlepool United did not score.

Discipline: Portsmouth received no yellow cards; Hartlepool United received 2 yellow cards.

Going into the game Portsmouth were 2nd on 38 points from 20 and Hartlepool United 19th on 20 points from 19. Portsmouth went on to finish that season 7th with 77 points, and Hartlepool United 19th with 48.

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 1 Portsmouth win, 1 draw and 0 for Hartlepool United.

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

Data as of 5 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 32'Goal · Caolan LaveryPortsmouth · 1-0
  • 37'Own goal · Adam JacksonPortsmouth · 2-0
  • 59'Yellow card · Rakish BinghamHartlepool United
  • 61'Goal · Gareth EvansPortsmouth · 3-0
  • 83'Yellow card · Mikael MandronHartlepool United
  • 90'Goal · Marc McNultyPortsmouth · 4-0

Head-to-head

2 meetings: Portsmouth 1, draws 1, Hartlepool United 0.

Team news

Portsmouth expected line-up

Brian Murphy, Ben Davies, Christian Burgess, Adam Webster, Enda Stevens, Kyle Bennett, Michael Doyle, Gareth Evans, Danny Hollands, Matthew Tubbs

Hartlepool United expected line-up (4-4-2)

Jake Carroll, Matthew Bates, Carl Magnay, Michael Duckworth, Scott Fenwick, B. Paynter