Portsmouth 2-0 Wycombe Wanderers: result and report

League One · Thursday 26 December 2019

Result

Portsmouth 2-0 Wycombe Wanderers

League One · Thursday 26 December 2019, 15:00 UTC · half-time 0-0

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Portsmouth 2-0 Wycombe Wanderers: match report

Portsmouth won against Wycombe Wanderers 2-0 in the League One on Thursday 26 December 2019. The half-time score was 0-0.

Ben Close opened the scoring in the 66th minute. Portsmouth's goals came from Ben Close (66') and Ronan Curtis (73'). Wycombe Wanderers did not score.

Discipline: Portsmouth received 3 yellow cards; Wycombe Wanderers received 3 yellow cards.

Going into the game Portsmouth were 10th on 31 points from 20 and Wycombe Wanderers 1st on 43 points from 21. Portsmouth went on to finish that season 5th with 62 points, and Wycombe Wanderers 2nd with 66.

Portsmouth lined up in a 4-2-3-1 and Wycombe Wanderers in a 4-3-3. The highest match rating in our data went to Ben Close of Portsmouth (8.5), ahead of Tom Naylor (7.5).

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

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

Data as of 5 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 13'Yellow card · Ellis HarrisonPortsmouth
  • 35'Yellow card · Ronan CurtisPortsmouth
  • 45+3'Yellow card · Tom NaylorPortsmouth
  • 53'Yellow card · Anthony StewartWycombe Wanderers
  • 64'Yellow card · Rolando AaronsWycombe Wanderers
  • 66'Goal · Ben ClosePortsmouth · 1-0
  • 73'Goal · Ronan CurtisPortsmouth · 2-0
  • 85'Yellow card · Joe JacobsonWycombe Wanderers

Head-to-head

1 meetings: Portsmouth 0, draws 0, Wycombe Wanderers 1.

Team news

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

Craig MacGillivray, James Bolton, Christian Burgess, Sean Raggett, Anton Walkes, Tom Naylor, Ben Close, Ryan Williams, Andy Cannon, Ronan Curtis, Ellis Harrison

Wycombe Wanderers line-up (4-3-3)

Ryan Allsop, Sido Jombati, Anthony Stewart, Darius Charles, Joe Jacobson, Curtis Thompson, Nnamdi Ofoborh, Nick Freeman, Rolando Aarons, A. Samuel, Paul Smyth