Portsmouth 2-1 Sunderland: result and report

Premier League · Saturday 22 April 2006

Result

Portsmouth 2-1 Sunderland

Premier League · Saturday 22 April 2006, 14:00 UTC · half-time 0-0

Portsmouth · Sunderland · Premier League predictions

Portsmouth 2-1 Sunderland: match report

Portsmouth defeated Sunderland 2-1 in the Premier League on Saturday 22 April 2006. The half-time score was 0-0.

Tommy Miller opened the scoring in the 70th minute. Portsmouth's goals came from Svetoslav Todorov (73') and Matthew Taylor (88', penalty). Sunderland scored through Tommy Miller (70').

Discipline: Portsmouth received 2 yellow cards; Sunderland received 3 yellow cards.

Going into the game Portsmouth were 18th on 32 points from 35 and Sunderland 20th on 12 points from 34. Portsmouth went on to finish that season 17th with 38 points, and Sunderland 20th with 15.

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 1 Portsmouth win, 0 draws and 0 for Sunderland.

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

Data as of 3 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 19'Yellow card · Dejan StefanovicPortsmouth
  • 31'Yellow card · Reece BrownSunderland
  • 57'Yellow card · Gary BreenSunderland
  • 70'Goal · Tommy MillerSunderland · 0-1
  • 71'Yellow card · Kevin KyleSunderland
  • 73'Goal · Svetoslav TodorovPortsmouth · 1-1
  • 75'Yellow card · Richard HughesPortsmouth
  • 88'Penalty goal · Matthew TaylorPortsmouth · 2-1

Head-to-head

1 meetings: Portsmouth 1, draws 0, Sunderland 0.

Team news

Portsmouth expected line-up

Shaka Hislop, Dejan Stefanovic, Arjan de Zeeuw, Nigel Quashie, Patrik Berger, Richard Hughes, Alexei Smertin, Yakubu Aiyegbeni, Lomana Lualua, Steve Stone, Teddy Sheringham

Sunderland line-up

George McCartney, Gary Breen, Danny Collins, Justin Hoyte, Dean Whitehead, Julio Arca, Jon Stead, Kevin Kyle, Chris Brown, Kelvin Davis, Tommy Miller