Portsmouth 2-3 Colchester United: result and report

League One · Saturday 2 February 2013

Result

Portsmouth 2-3 Colchester United

League One · Saturday 2 February 2013, 15:00 UTC · half-time 1-3

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Portsmouth 2-3 Colchester United: match report

Portsmouth were beaten by Colchester United 2-3 in the League One on Saturday 2 February 2013. It was 1-3 at half-time.

Gavin Massey opened the scoring in the 2nd minute. Portsmouth's goals came from Jed Wallace (5') and James Keene (72'). Colchester United scored through Gavin Massey (2'), Freddie Sears (16', penalty) and Gavin Massey (20').

Discipline: Portsmouth received no yellow cards; Colchester United received 3 yellow cards.

Going into the game Portsmouth were 23rd on 21 points from 28 and Colchester United 20th on 26 points from 28. Portsmouth went on to finish that season 22nd with 42 points, and Colchester United 20th with 51.

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 0 Portsmouth wins, 1 draw and 0 for Colchester United.

Going into the match Portsmouth's last five read L-L-L-L-L and Colchester United's W-L-L-L-L.

Data as of 5 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 2'Goal · Gavin MasseyColchester United · 0-1
  • 5'Goal · Jed WallacePortsmouth · 1-1
  • 16'Penalty goal · Freddie SearsColchester United · 1-2
  • 20'Goal · Gavin MasseyColchester United · 1-3
  • 72'Goal · James KeenePortsmouth · 2-3
  • 78'Yellow card · G. PorterColchester United
  • 80'Yellow card · Marcus BeanColchester United
  • 90+5'Yellow card · Jabo IbehreColchester United

Head-to-head

1 meetings: Portsmouth 0, draws 1, Colchester United 0.

Team news

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Portsmouth expected line-up (4-4-2)

Mikkel Andersen, Ľubomír Michalík, Mustapha Dumbuya, Carl Dickinson, Johannes Ertl, Lee Williamson, Brian Howard, Ákos Buzsáky, Izale McLeod

Colchester United expected line-up

Tom Eastman, Michael Rose, Magnus Okuonghae, Brian Wilson, Craig Eastmond, Marcus Bean, Anthony Wordsworth, Ian Henderson, Jabo Ibehre