Portsmouth 2-0 Manchester City: result and report

Premier League · Saturday 14 February 2009

Result

Portsmouth 2-0 Manchester City

Premier League · Saturday 14 February 2009, 15:00 UTC · half-time 0-0

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Portsmouth 2-0 Manchester City: match report

Portsmouth defeated Manchester City 2-0 in the Premier League on Saturday 14 February 2009. The half-time score was 0-0.

Glen Johnson opened the scoring in the 70th minute. Portsmouth's goals came from Glen Johnson (70') and Hermann Hreidarsson (75'). Manchester City did not score.

Discipline: Portsmouth received 1 yellow card; Manchester City received 3 yellow cards.

Going into the game Portsmouth were 16th on 24 points from 24 and Manchester City 9th on 31 points from 24. Portsmouth went on to finish that season 14th with 41 points, and Manchester City 10th with 50.

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

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 3 Portsmouth wins, 2 draws and 5 for Manchester City.

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

Data as of 3 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 19'Yellow card · Nigel de JongManchester City
  • 70'Goal · Glen JohnsonPortsmouth · 1-0
  • 75'Goal · Hermann HreidarssonPortsmouth · 2-0
  • 79'Yellow card · Stephen IrelandManchester City
  • 85'Yellow card · Craig BellamyManchester City
  • 85'Yellow card · Hermann HreidarssonPortsmouth

Head-to-head

10 meetings: Portsmouth 3, draws 2, Manchester City 5.

Team news

Portsmouth line-up (4-4-2)

Glen Johnson, Sylvain Distin, Jermaine Pennant, Niko Kranjčar, Sean Davis, Angelos Basinas, Peter Crouch, David Nugent, David James, Hermann Hreidarsson, Sulzeer Campbell

Manchester City expected line-up (4-4-2)

Joe Hart, Richard Dunne, Javier Garrido, Michael Ball, Stephen Ireland, Martin Petrov, Gelson Fernandes, Michael Johnson, Benjamin Mwaruwari, Darius Vassell, Vedran Ćorluka