Portsmouth 3-1 Birmingham City: result and report
Premier League · Monday 12 April 2004
Result
Portsmouth 3-1 Birmingham City
Premier League · Monday 12 April 2004, 14:00 UTC · half-time 1-0
Portsmouth 3-1 Birmingham City: match report
Portsmouth won against Birmingham City 3-1 in the Premier League on Monday 12 April 2004. It was 1-0 at half-time.
Dejan Stefanovic opened the scoring in the 45th minute. Portsmouth's goals came from Dejan Stefanovic (45'), Trésor Lomana LuaLua (62') and Yakubu Aiyegbeni (73', penalty). Birmingham City scored through Stern John (67').
Discipline: Portsmouth received 1 yellow card; Birmingham City received 2 yellow cards and 1 red card.
Going into the game Portsmouth were 17th on 31 points from 31 and Birmingham City 6th on 46 points from 32. Portsmouth went on to finish that season 13th with 45 points, and Birmingham City 10th with 50.
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 0 Portsmouth wins, 0 draws and 1 for Birmingham City.
Going into the match Portsmouth's last five read D-W-W-L-L and Birmingham City's L-D-W-L-L.
Key events
- 45'Goal · Dejan Stefanovic
- 45'Red card · Maik Taylor
- 46'Yellow card · Kenny Cunningham
- 62'Goal · Trésor Lomana LuaLua
- 65'Yellow card · Stephen Clemence
- 67'Goal · Stern John
- 73'Penalty goal · Yakubu Aiyegbeni
- 79'Yellow card · Nigel Quashie
Head-to-head
Team news
Portsmouth expected line-up
Harald Wapenaar, Dejan Stefanovic, Arjan de Zeeuw, Boris Zivkovic, Patrik Berger, Alexei Smertin, Yakubu Aiyegbeni, Teddy Sheringham, Steve Stone, Tim Sherwood, Hayden Foxe
Birmingham City line-up
Maik Taylor, Kenny Cunningham, Martin Taylor, Jamie Clapham, Matthew Upson, Olivier Tebily, Robbie Savage, Mikael Forssell, Bryan Hughes, Stern John, Damien Johnson