Manchester City 3-1 Portsmouth: result and report

Manchester City 3-1 Portsmouth

Premier League · Sunday 20 April 2008, 15:00 UTC · half-time 2-1

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Manchester City defeated Portsmouth 3-1 in the Premier League on Sunday 20 April 2008. The half-time score was 2-1.

Darius Vassell opened the scoring in the 11th minute. Manchester City's goals came from Darius Vassell (11'), Martin Petrov (13') and Benjamin Mwaruwari (74'). Portsmouth scored through John Utaka (23').

Discipline: Manchester City received 1 yellow card; Portsmouth received 1 yellow card and 1 red card.

Going into the game Manchester City were 9th on 52 points from 34 and Portsmouth 7th on 57 points from 34. Manchester City went on to finish that season 9th with 55 points, and Portsmouth 8th with 57.

Manchester City lined up in a 3-5-2 and Portsmouth in a 4-5-1.

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

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