Crawley Town 0-2 Portsmouth: result and report
League Two · Tuesday 7 March 2017
Result
Crawley Town 0-2 Portsmouth
League Two · Tuesday 7 March 2017, 19:45 UTC · half-time 0-0
Crawley Town 0-2 Portsmouth: match report
Crawley Town were beaten by Portsmouth 0-2 in the League Two on Tuesday 7 March 2017. It was 0-0 at half-time.
Christian Burgess opened the scoring in the 54th minute. Crawley Town did not score. Portsmouth scored through Christian Burgess (54') and K. Bennett (71').
Discipline: Crawley Town received 1 yellow card; Portsmouth received 2 yellow cards.
Going into the game Crawley Town were 16th on 43 points from 34 and Portsmouth 5th on 56 points from 34. Crawley Town went on to finish that season 19th with 51 points, and Portsmouth 1st with 87.
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 1 Crawley Town win, 1 draw and 3 for Portsmouth.
Going into the match Crawley Town's last five read D-L-W-L-W and Portsmouth's L-D-W-D-W.
Key events
- 38'Yellow card · Lewis Young
- 53'Missed penalty · E. Doyle
- 54'Goal · Christian Burgess
- 71'Goal · K. Bennett
- 72'Yellow card · Noel Hunt
- 90+4'Yellow card · E. Doyle
Head-to-head
Team news
Crawley Town line-up
Glenn Morris, Lewis Young, Mark Connolly, Joe McNerney, Josh Lelan, Josh Payne, Enzio Boldewijn, Jimmy Smith, Dean Cox, James Collins, Rhys Murphy
Portsmouth line-up
David Forde, Matt Clarke, Christian Burgess, Kal Naismith, Enda Stevens, Daniel Rose, Carl Baker, Michael Doyle, Kyle Bennett, Gareth Evans, Eoin Doyle