Manchester City 2-0 Portsmouth: result and report

Premier League · Saturday 30 April 2005

Result

Manchester City 2-0 Portsmouth

Premier League · Saturday 30 April 2005, 14:00 UTC · half-time 2-0

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Manchester City 2-0 Portsmouth: match report

Manchester City defeated Portsmouth 2-0 in the Premier League on Saturday 30 April 2005. It was 2-0 at half-time.

Sylvain Distin opened the scoring in the 4th minute. Manchester City's goals came from Sylvain Distin (4') and Robbie Fowler (16'). Portsmouth did not score.

Discipline: Manchester City received no yellow cards; Portsmouth received 1 yellow card.

Going into the game Manchester City were 10th on 45 points from 35 and Portsmouth 15th on 38 points from 35. Manchester City went on to finish that season 8th with 52 points, and Portsmouth 16th with 39.

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 1 Manchester City win, 1 draw and 1 for Portsmouth.

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

Data as of 3 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 4'Goal · Sylvain DistinManchester City · 1-0
  • 11'Yellow card · Gary O'NeilPortsmouth
  • 16'Goal · Robbie FowlerManchester City · 2-0

Head-to-head

3 meetings: Manchester City 1, draws 1, Portsmouth 1.

Team news

Manchester City expected line-up

Sylvain Distin, Richard Dunne, Danny Mills, Shaun Wright-Phillips, Nicolas Anelka, David James, Paul Bosvelt, Antoine Sibierski, Sun Jihai, Robbie Fowler

Portsmouth expected line-up

Shaka Hislop, Dejan Stefanovic, Arjan de Zeeuw, Boris Zivkovic, Nigel Quashie, Patrik Berger, Alexei Smertin, Yakubu Aiyegbeni, Lomana Lualua, Steve Stone, Teddy Sheringham