Tranmere Rovers 2-2 Portsmouth: result and report
League One · Saturday 8 December 2012
Result
Tranmere Rovers 2-2 Portsmouth
League One · Saturday 8 December 2012, 15:00 UTC · half-time 1-0
Tranmere Rovers 2-2 Portsmouth: match report
Tranmere Rovers drew with Portsmouth 2-2 in the League One on Saturday 8 December 2012. The half-time score was 1-0.
Ash Taylor opened the scoring in the 31st minute. Tranmere Rovers's goals came from Ash Taylor (31') and Michael O'Halloran (74'). Portsmouth scored through Gábor Gyepes (50') and Jake Jervis (75').
Discipline: Tranmere Rovers received no yellow cards; Portsmouth received 3 yellow cards.
Going into the game Tranmere Rovers were 1st on 39 points from 20 and Portsmouth 20th on 19 points from 20. Tranmere Rovers went on to finish that season 10th with 67 points, and Portsmouth 22nd with 42.
Going into the match Tranmere Rovers's last five read D-D-L-W-W and Portsmouth's D-L-L-L-L.
Key events
- 29'Yellow card · Izale McLeod
- 31'Goal · Ash Taylor
- 50'Goal · Gábor Gyepes
- 74'Goal · Michael O'Halloran
- 75'Goal · Jake Jervis
- 80'Yellow card · Darel Russell
- 90+1'Yellow card · L. Williamson
Team news
Tranmere Rovers expected line-up
Owain Fôn Williams, Liam Palmer, Zoumana Bakayogo, Danny Holmes, Ash Taylor, James Wallace, Jake Cassidy, Abdulai Bell-Baggie, Adam McGurk, Ben Gibson
Portsmouth expected line-up
Mikkel Andersen, Ľubomír Michalík, Gábor Gyepes, Jon Harley, Mustapha Dumbuya, Carl Dickinson, Lee Williamson, Brian Howard, Ákos Buzsáky, Izale McLeod