Portsmouth 1-3 Middlesbrough: result and report
Championship · Saturday 3 March 2012
Result
Portsmouth 1-3 Middlesbrough
Championship · Saturday 3 March 2012, 15:00 UTC · half-time 0-0
Portsmouth 1-3 Middlesbrough: match report
Portsmouth lost to Middlesbrough 1-3 in the Championship on Saturday 3 March 2012. The half-time score was 0-0.
B. Robson opened the scoring in the 56th minute. Portsmouth's goal came from Greg Halford (66', penalty). Middlesbrough scored through B. Robson (56', penalty), Matthew Bates (63') and M. Emnes (83').
Discipline: Portsmouth received 5 yellow cards; Middlesbrough received 5 yellow cards and 1 red card.
Going into the game Portsmouth were 19th on 36 points from 32 and Middlesbrough 8th on 53 points from 32. Portsmouth went on to finish that season 18th with 50 points, and Middlesbrough 7th with 70.
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 3 Portsmouth wins, 5 draws and 2 for Middlesbrough.
Going into the match Portsmouth's last five read D-L-L-D-L and Middlesbrough's L-W-W-D-D.
Key events
- 31'Yellow card · Matthew Bates
- 45'Yellow card · Tal Ben Haim
- 45+5'Yellow card · Rhys Williams
- 55'Yellow card · Greg Halford
- 55'Yellow card · Ricardo Rocha
- 56'Penalty goal · B. Robson
- 58'Yellow card · F. Haroun
- 61'Yellow card · Joel Ward
- 63'Goal · Matthew Bates
- 66'Penalty goal · Greg Halford
- 66'Yellow card · B. Robson
- 69'Yellow card · D. Norris
- 76'Yellow card · Oleksandr Shovkovskyi
- 83'Goal · M. Emnes
- 90+4'Second yellow · Rhys Williams
Head-to-head
Team news
Portsmouth line-up
Joel Ward, Ricardo Rocha, Jason Pearce, Greg Halford, Tal Ben Haim, Scott Allan, David Norris, George Thorne, Márkó Futács, Hayden Mullins, Stephen Henderson
Middlesbrough line-up
Jason Steele, Justin Hoyte, Joe Bennett, Rhys Williams, Sebastian Tony Hines, Nicky Bailey, Adam Hammill, Barry Robson, Lukas Jutkiewicz, Matthew Bates, Faris Haroun