Arsenal 3-1 Portsmouth: result and report

Premier League · Sunday 2 September 2007

Result

Arsenal 3-1 Portsmouth

Premier League · Sunday 2 September 2007, 12:30 UTC · half-time 2-0

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Arsenal 3-1 Portsmouth: match report

Arsenal won against Portsmouth 3-1 in the Premier League on Sunday 2 September 2007. It was 2-0 at half-time.

Emmanuel Adebayor opened the scoring in the 8th minute. Arsenal's goals came from Emmanuel Adebayor (8', penalty), Cesc Fàbregas (35') and Tomáš Rosický (59'). Portsmouth scored through Nwankwo Kanu (60').

Discipline: Arsenal received 1 yellow card and 1 red card; Portsmouth received 2 yellow cards.

Going into the game Arsenal were 9th on 7 points from 3 and Portsmouth 11th on 5 points from 4. Arsenal went on to finish that season 2nd with 85 points, and Portsmouth 8th with 57.

Arsenal lined up in a 4-4-2 and Portsmouth in a 5-3-2.

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 3 Arsenal wins, 5 draws and 0 for Portsmouth.

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

Data as of 3 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 8'Penalty goal · Emmanuel AdebayorArsenal · 1-0
  • 35'Goal · Cesc FàbregasArsenal · 2-0
  • 44'Yellow card · H. HreiðarssonPortsmouth
  • 49'Red card · Philippe SenderosArsenal
  • 54'Yellow card · Nwankwo KanuPortsmouth
  • 59'Goal · Tomáš RosickýArsenal · 3-0
  • 60'Goal · Nwankwo KanuPortsmouth · 3-1
  • 67'Yellow card · Cesc FàbregasArsenal

Head-to-head

8 meetings: Arsenal 3, draws 5, Portsmouth 0.

Team news

Arsenal line-up (4-4-2)

Almunia, Kolo Touré, Philippe Senderos, Gaël Clichy, Cesc Fàbregas, Tomáš Rosický, Alexander Hleb, Mathieu Flamini, Gilberto Silva, Robin van Persie, Emmanuel Adebayor

Portsmouth line-up (5-3-2)

Laurén, Glen Johnson, Sylvain Distin, Noé Pamarot, Sulley Muntari, Sean Davis, John Utaka, Nwankwo Kanu, David James, Hermann Hreidarsson, Matthew Taylor