Southampton 2-2 Portsmouth: result and report
Championship · Saturday 7 April 2012
Result
Southampton 2-2 Portsmouth
Championship · Saturday 7 April 2012, 12:00 UTC · half-time 1-1
Southampton 2-2 Portsmouth: match report
Southampton drew with Portsmouth 2-2 in the Championship on Saturday 7 April 2012. The half-time score was 1-1.
Billy Sharp opened the scoring in the 27th minute. Southampton's goals came from Billy Sharp (27') and Billy Sharp (90'). Portsmouth scored through Chris Maguire (36') and D. Norris (90+4').
Discipline: Southampton received 2 yellow cards; Portsmouth received 6 yellow cards.
Going into the game Southampton were 2nd on 78 points from 40 and Portsmouth 19th on 43 points from 40. Southampton went on to finish that season 3rd with 88 points, and Portsmouth 18th with 50.
Southampton lined up in a 4-4-2 and Portsmouth in a 4-3-3.
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 2 Southampton wins, 1 draw and 2 for Portsmouth.
Going into the match Southampton's last five read L-W-W-W-W and Portsmouth's L-W-L-W-D.
Key events
- 2'Yellow card · Morgan Schneiderlin
- 7'Yellow card · Chris Maguire
- 27'Goal · Billy Sharp
- 27'Yellow card · Ricardo Rocha
- 28'Yellow card · Billy Sharp
- 34'Yellow card · S. Allan
- 36'Goal · Chris Maguire
- 68'Yellow card · Kelvin Etuhu
- 90'Goal · Billy Sharp
- 90+4'Goal · D. Norris
- 90+7'Yellow card · Jamie Ashdown
- 90+7'Yellow card · Luke Varney
Head-to-head
Team news
Southampton line-up (4-4-2)
Frazer Richardson, José Fonte, Danny Fox, Jos Hooiveld, Morgan Schneiderlin, Dean Hammond, Adam Lallana, Guly, Patrick McCarthy, Kelvin Davis, Rickie Lambert
Portsmouth line-up (4-3-3)
Jamie Ashdown, Joel Ward, Ricardo Rocha, Jason Pearce, Greg Halford, Karim Rekik, Kelvin Etuhu, Scott Allan, David Norris, Luke Varney, Chris Maguire