Portsmouth 4-2 Manchester City: result and report

Premier League · Saturday 10 January 2004

Result

Portsmouth 4-2 Manchester City

Premier League · Saturday 10 January 2004, 15:00 UTC · half-time 1-2

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Portsmouth 4-2 Manchester City: match report

Portsmouth defeated Manchester City 4-2 in the Premier League on Saturday 10 January 2004. The half-time score was 1-2.

Dejan Stefanovic opened the scoring in the 19th minute. Portsmouth's goals came from Dejan Stefanovic (19'), Yakubu Aiyegbeni (52'), Teddy Sheringham (58') and Yakubu Aiyegbeni (77'). Manchester City scored through Nicolas Anelka (21') and Antoine Sibierski (45').

Discipline: Portsmouth received no yellow cards; Manchester City received 2 yellow cards.

Going into the game Portsmouth were 18th on 19 points from 20 and Manchester City 14th on 22 points from 20. Portsmouth went on to finish that season 13th with 45 points, and Manchester City 16th with 41.

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

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

Data as of 3 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 19'Goal · Dejan StefanovicPortsmouth · 1-0
  • 21'Goal · Nicolas AnelkaManchester City · 1-1
  • 45'Goal · Antoine SibierskiManchester City · 1-2
  • 52'Goal · Yakubu AiyegbeniPortsmouth · 2-2
  • 58'Goal · Teddy SheringhamPortsmouth · 3-2
  • 60'Yellow card · Richard DunneManchester City
  • 77'Goal · Yakubu AiyegbeniPortsmouth · 4-2
  • 90'Yellow card · Robbie FowlerManchester City

Head-to-head

1 meetings: Portsmouth 0, draws 1, Manchester City 0.

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

Manchester City line-up

David Seaman, David Sommeil, Sylvain Distin, Michael Tarnat, Richard Dunne, Trevor Sinclair, Nicolas Anelka, Robbie Fowler, Antoine Sibierski, Joey Barton, Paul Bosvelt