Doncaster Rovers 3-4 Portsmouth: result and report

Championship · Saturday 14 April 2012

Result

Doncaster Rovers 3-4 Portsmouth

Championship · Saturday 14 April 2012, 14:00 UTC · half-time 2-0

Doncaster Rovers · Portsmouth · Championship predictions

Doncaster Rovers 3-4 Portsmouth: match report

Doncaster Rovers were beaten by Portsmouth 3-4 in the Championship on Saturday 14 April 2012. It was 2-0 at half-time.

H. Beye opened the scoring in the 3rd minute. Doncaster Rovers's goals came from H. Beye (3'), Fabien Robert (5') and James Coppinger (67'). Portsmouth scored through Greg Halford (59', penalty), Greg Halford (65', penalty), Dave Kitson (90') and M. Futács (90+3').

Discipline: Doncaster Rovers received no yellow cards and 1 red card; Portsmouth received no yellow cards.

Going into the game Doncaster Rovers were 24th on 32 points from 42 and Portsmouth 21st on 44 points from 42. Doncaster Rovers went on to finish that season 24th with 36 points, and Portsmouth 18th with 50.

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 1 Doncaster Rovers win, 0 draws and 2 for Portsmouth.

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

Data as of 4 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 3'Goal · H. BeyeDoncaster Rovers · 1-0
  • 5'Goal · Fabien RobertDoncaster Rovers · 2-0
  • 57'Red card · H. BeyeDoncaster Rovers
  • 59'Penalty goal · Greg HalfordPortsmouth · 2-1
  • 65'Penalty goal · Greg HalfordPortsmouth · 2-2
  • 67'Goal · James CoppingerDoncaster Rovers · 3-2
  • 90'Goal · Dave KitsonPortsmouth · 3-3
  • 90+3'Goal · M. FutácsPortsmouth · 3-4

Head-to-head

3 meetings: Doncaster Rovers 1, draws 0, Portsmouth 2.

Team news

Doncaster Rovers line-up

Gary Woods, George Friend, John Oster, Simon Gillett, James Coppinger, Chris Brown, Giles Barnes, Fabien Robert, James O'Connor, Adam Brian Lockwood, Habib Beye

Portsmouth line-up

Jamie Ashdown, Joel Ward, Ricardo Rocha, Jason Pearce, Greg Halford, Karim Rekik, Kelvin Etuhu, Scott Allan, David Norris, Luke Varney, Chris Maguire