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
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.
Key events
- 19'Goal · Trésor Lomana LuaLua
- 25'Goal · Sean Davis
- 42'Goal · Pedro Mendes
- 69'Goal · Teddy Sheringham
- 77'Goal · Svetoslav Todorov
- 84'Yellow card · Pedro Mendes
- 86'Yellow card · Marlon Harewood
- 90'Goal · Yossi Benayoun
Head-to-head
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