Sunderland 2-0 Portsmouth: result and report

Premier League · Sunday 13 January 2008

Result

Sunderland 2-0 Portsmouth

Premier League · Sunday 13 January 2008, 13:30 UTC · half-time 2-0

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Sunderland 2-0 Portsmouth: match report

Sunderland beat Portsmouth 2-0 in the Premier League on Sunday 13 January 2008. The half-time score was 2-0.

Kieran Richardson opened the scoring in the 33rd minute. Sunderland's goals came from Kieran Richardson (33') and Kieran Richardson (44'). Portsmouth did not score.

Discipline: Sunderland received 3 yellow cards; Portsmouth received 1 yellow card.

Going into the game Sunderland were 18th on 17 points from 21 and Portsmouth 8th on 34 points from 21. Sunderland went on to finish that season 15th with 39 points, and Portsmouth 8th with 57.

Sunderland lined up in a 4-5-1 and Portsmouth in a 4-4-2.

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 0 Sunderland wins, 0 draws and 2 for Portsmouth.

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

Data as of 3 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 33'Goal · Kieran RichardsonSunderland · 1-0
  • 44'Goal · Kieran RichardsonSunderland · 2-0
  • 64'Yellow card · Pedro MendesPortsmouth
  • 71'Yellow card · Danny CollinsSunderland
  • 80'Yellow card · Kieran RichardsonSunderland
  • 89'Yellow card · Dwight YorkeSunderland

Head-to-head

2 meetings: Sunderland 0, draws 0, Portsmouth 2.

Team news

Sunderland line-up (4-5-1)

Craig Gordon, Nyron Nosworthy, Kieran Richardson, Danny Collins, Jonny Evans, Dean Whitehead, Liam Miller, Anthony Stokes, Daryl Murphy, Kenwyne Jones, Dwight Yorke

Portsmouth line-up (4-4-2)

Sylvain Distin, Noé Pamarot, Arnold Mvuemba, Niko Kranjčar, Richard Hughes, Pedro Mendes, David Nugent, Benjamin Mwaruwari, David James, Hermann Hreidarsson, Sulzeer Campbell