Leicester City 3-1 Portsmouth: result and report
Premier League · Saturday 8 May 2004
Result
Leicester City 3-1 Portsmouth
Premier League · Saturday 8 May 2004, 14:00 UTC · half-time 2-0
Leicester City 3-1 Portsmouth: match report
Leicester City beat Portsmouth 3-1 in the Premier League on Saturday 8 May 2004. The half-time score was 2-0.
Leicester City's goals came from an own goal by Matthew Taylor (6'), Paul Dickov (27') and James Scowcroft (71'). Portsmouth scored through Nigel Quashie (66').
Discipline: Leicester City received no yellow cards; Portsmouth received 2 yellow cards.
Going into the game Leicester City were 20th on 30 points from 36 and Portsmouth 14th on 42 points from 36. Leicester City went on to finish that season 18th with 33 points, and Portsmouth 13th with 45.
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 1 Leicester City win, 0 draws and 0 for Portsmouth.
Going into the match Leicester City's last five read D-D-L-L-L and Portsmouth's D-D-W-W-W.
Key events
- 6'Own goal · Matthew Taylor
- 27'Goal · Paul Dickov
- 28'Yellow card · Trésor Lomana LuaLua
- 66'Goal · Nigel Quashie
- 71'Goal · James Scowcroft
- 76'Yellow card · Shaka Hislop
Head-to-head
Team news
Leicester City expected line-up
Ian Walker, Ben Thatcher, Nikos Dabizas, Riccardo Scimeca, Mustafa Izzet, Steffen Freund, Marcus Bent, Leslie Ferdinand, Billy McKinlay, Matt Heath
Portsmouth line-up
Shaka Hislop, Dejan Stefanovic, Arjan de Zeeuw, John Curtis, Nigel Quashie, Amdy Faye, Alexei Smertin, Yakubu Aiyegbeni, Lomana Lualua, Matthew Taylor, Steve Stone