Sunderland 1-4 Portsmouth: result and report
Premier League · Saturday 29 October 2005
Result
Sunderland 1-4 Portsmouth
Premier League · Saturday 29 October 2005, 14:00 UTC · half-time 1-0
Sunderland 1-4 Portsmouth: match report
Sunderland were beaten by Portsmouth 1-4 in the Premier League on Saturday 29 October 2005. It was 1-0 at half-time.
Dean Whitehead opened the scoring in the 4th minute. Sunderland's goal came from Dean Whitehead (4', penalty). Portsmouth scored through Zvonimir Vukic (48'), Matthew Taylor (59'), Matthew Taylor (67') and Debray Silva Pereira (74').
Discipline: Sunderland received no yellow cards; Portsmouth received 1 yellow card.
Going into the game Sunderland were 19th on 5 points from 10 and Portsmouth 17th on 7 points from 10. Sunderland went on to finish that season 20th with 15 points, and Portsmouth 17th with 38.
Going into the match Sunderland's last five read L-L-D-W-D and Portsmouth's L-D-D-L-D.
Key events
- 4'Penalty goal · Dean Whitehead
- 35'Yellow card · Andy Griffin
- 48'Goal · Zvonimir Vukic
- 59'Goal · Matthew Taylor
- 67'Goal · Matthew Taylor
- 74'Goal · Debray Silva Pereira
Team news
Sunderland line-up
Steven Caldwell, Nyron Nosworthy, Justin Hoyte, Liam Lawrence, Dean Whitehead, Stephen Elliott, Andy Gray, Kelvin Davis, Andy Welsh, Tommy Miller, Alan Stubbs
Portsmouth expected line-up
Shaka Hislop, Dejan Stefanovic, Arjan de Zeeuw, Nigel Quashie, Patrik Berger, Richard Hughes, Alexei Smertin, Yakubu Aiyegbeni, Lomana Lualua, Steve Stone, Teddy Sheringham