West Ham United 2-4 Portsmouth: result and report

Premier League · Saturday 18 March 2006

Result

West Ham United 2-4 Portsmouth

Premier League · Saturday 18 March 2006, 15:00 UTC · half-time 0-3

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West Ham United 2-4 Portsmouth: match report

West Ham United lost to Portsmouth 2-4 in the Premier League on Saturday 18 March 2006. The half-time score was 0-3.

Trésor Lomana LuaLua opened the scoring in the 19th minute. West Ham United's goals came from Teddy Sheringham (69') and Yossi Benayoun (90'). Portsmouth scored through Trésor Lomana LuaLua (19'), Sean Davis (25'), Pedro Mendes (42') and Svetoslav Todorov (77').

Discipline: West Ham United received 1 yellow card; Portsmouth received 1 yellow card.

Going into the game West Ham United were 10th on 42 points from 28 and Portsmouth 19th on 21 points from 29. West Ham United went on to finish that season 9th with 55 points, and Portsmouth 17th with 38.

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

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

Data as of 3 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 19'Goal · Trésor Lomana LuaLuaPortsmouth · 0-1
  • 25'Goal · Sean DavisPortsmouth · 0-2
  • 42'Goal · Pedro MendesPortsmouth · 0-3
  • 69'Goal · Teddy SheringhamWest Ham United · 1-3
  • 77'Goal · Svetoslav TodorovPortsmouth · 1-4
  • 84'Yellow card · Pedro MendesPortsmouth
  • 86'Yellow card · Marlon HarewoodWest Ham United
  • 90'Goal · Yossi BenayounWest Ham United · 2-4

Head-to-head

1 meetings: West Ham United 0, draws 1, Portsmouth 0.

Team news

West Ham United line-up

Jimmy Walker, Paul Konchesky, Danny Gabbidon, Anton Ferdinand, Christian Dailly, Clive Clarke, Nigel Reo-Coker, Yaniv Katan, Bobby Zamora, Lionel Scaloni, Teddy Sheringham

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