Arsenal 2-2 Portsmouth: result and report
Premier League · Saturday 16 December 2006
Result
Arsenal 2-2 Portsmouth
Premier League · Saturday 16 December 2006, 15:00 UTC · half-time 0-1
Arsenal 2-2 Portsmouth: match report
Arsenal drew with Portsmouth 2-2 in the Premier League on Saturday 16 December 2006. It was 0-1 at half-time.
Noé Pamarot opened the scoring in the 45th minute. Arsenal's goals came from Emmanuel Adebayor (58') and Gilberto Silva (60'). Portsmouth scored through Noé Pamarot (45') and Matthew Taylor (47').
Discipline: Arsenal received no yellow cards; Portsmouth received 2 yellow cards.
Going into the game Arsenal were 4th on 29 points from 17 and Portsmouth 5th on 28 points from 17. Arsenal went on to finish that season 4th with 68 points, and Portsmouth 9th with 54.
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 3 Arsenal wins, 3 draws and 0 for Portsmouth.
Going into the match Arsenal's last five read W-D-W-L-L and Portsmouth's W-D-D-L-W.
Key events
- 45'Goal · Noé Pamarot
- 47'Goal · Matthew Taylor
- 58'Goal · Emmanuel Adebayor
- 60'Goal · Gilberto Silva
- 83'Yellow card · Glen Johnson
- 90+3'Yellow card · Gary O'Neil
Head-to-head
Team news
Arsenal line-up
Jens Lehmann, Kolo Touré, Johan Djourou, Gaël Clichy, Emmanuel Eboué, Cesc Fàbregas, Alexander Hleb, Gilberto Silva, Robin van Persie, Jérémie Aliadière, Fredrik Ljungberg
Portsmouth expected line-up
Shaka Hislop, Dejan Stefanovic, Arjan de Zeeuw, Linvoy Primus, Richard Hughes, Nigel Quashie, Alexei Smertin, Patrik Berger, Lomana Lualua, Yakubu Aiyegbeni, Steve Stone