Manchester United 3-0 Portsmouth: result and report
Premier League · Saturday 3 December 2005
Result
Manchester United 3-0 Portsmouth
Premier League · Saturday 3 December 2005, 17:15 UTC · half-time 1-0
Manchester United 3-0 Portsmouth: match report
Manchester United beat Portsmouth 3-0 in the Premier League on Saturday 3 December 2005. The half-time score was 1-0.
Paul Scholes opened the scoring in the 20th minute. Manchester United's goals came from Paul Scholes (20'), Wayne Rooney (79') and Ruud van Nistelrooy (84'). Portsmouth did not score.
Discipline: Manchester United received no yellow cards; Portsmouth received 1 yellow card.
Going into the game Manchester United were 3rd on 27 points from 13 and Portsmouth 18th on 10 points from 14. Manchester United went on to finish that season 2nd with 83 points, and Portsmouth 17th with 38.
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 2 Manchester United wins, 0 draws and 2 for Portsmouth.
Going into the match Manchester United's last five read W-W-W-L-D and Portsmouth's L-L-L-W-L.
Key events
- 20'Goal · Paul Scholes
- 68'Yellow card · Andy Griffin
- 79'Goal · Wayne Rooney
- 84'Goal · Ruud van Nistelrooy
Head-to-head
Team news
Manchester United expected line-up
Roy Carroll, Mikaël Silvestre, John O'Shea, Rio Ferdinand, Wes Brown, Cristiano Ronaldo, Louis Saha, Paul Scholes, Ruud van Nistelrooy, Alan Smith, Gary Neville
Portsmouth expected line-up
Shaka Hislop, Dejan Stefanovic, Arjan de Zeeuw, Nigel Quashie, Patrik Berger, Richard Hughes, Alexei Smertin, Yakubu Aiyegbeni, Lomana Lualua, Steve Stone, Teddy Sheringham