Portsmouth 3-1 Sunderland: result and report

League One · Saturday 22 December 2018

Result

Portsmouth 3-1 Sunderland

League One · Saturday 22 December 2018, 15:00 UTC · half-time 0-0

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Portsmouth 3-1 Sunderland: match report

Portsmouth won against Sunderland 3-1 in the League One on Saturday 22 December 2018. It was 0-0 at half-time.

Gareth Evans opened the scoring in the 48th minute. Portsmouth's goals came from Gareth Evans (48', penalty), Ronan Curtis (53') and Ben Thompson (63'). Sunderland scored through Luke O'Nien (57').

Discipline: Portsmouth received 3 yellow cards; Sunderland received 1 yellow card and 1 red card.

Going into the game Portsmouth were 1st on 48 points from 22 and Sunderland 3rd on 43 points from 20. Portsmouth went on to finish that season 5th with 89 points, and Sunderland 4th with 89.

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 5 Portsmouth wins, 2 draws and 1 for Sunderland.

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

Data as of 5 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 27'Yellow card · Oliver HawkinsPortsmouth
  • 47'Red card · Glenn LoovensSunderland
  • 48'Penalty goal · Gareth EvansPortsmouth · 1-0
  • 52'Yellow card · Ronan CurtisPortsmouth
  • 53'Goal · Ronan CurtisPortsmouth · 2-0
  • 54'Yellow card · George HoneymanSunderland
  • 57'Goal · Luke O'NienSunderland · 2-1
  • 60'Yellow card · Nathan ThompsonPortsmouth
  • 63'Goal · Ben ThompsonPortsmouth · 3-1

Head-to-head

8 meetings: Portsmouth 5, draws 2, Sunderland 1.

Team news

Portsmouth line-up

Craig MacGillivray, Nathan Thompson, Lee Brown, Ben Thompson, Jack Whatmough, Matt Clarke, Jamal Lowe, Tom Naylor, Oli Hawkins, Gareth Evans, Ronan Curtis

Sunderland line-up

Jon McLaughlin, Luke O'Nien, Reece James, Max Power, Glenn Loovens, Jack Baldwin, Aiden McGeady, Lee Cattermole, Duncan Watmore, George Honeyman, Lynden Gooch