24th Game Between Portsmouth & City

21 March 2013 00:05
A look at City V Portsmouth games

Coventry City face Portsmouth for the 24th time on Saturday.

The last time City played at Fratton Park  was on December 3rd 2012. and saw a 2-1 loss with Greg Halford scoring an eighteen minute penalty, Lukas Jutkiewicz levelling in the 54th minute before Joel Ward scored a second for Pompey three minutes later.

The teams that day were:City Murphy, Keogh, Wood (Christie 77), Cranie, Cameron, Clingan,Baker, Gardner (McSheffrey 67), Bigirimana, Platt (McDonald 67), Jutkiewicz. SNU Dunn, Bell

Portsmouth Henderson, Ward, Rocha, Pearce, Mullins (Varney 67), Halford, Mattock, Kitson, Norris, Thorne, Huseklepp (Benjani 88). SNU Ashdown, Moekena, Futacs.

Of the eleven league and cup matches played at Fratton Park, City have three wins and three draws. The last win came on April 12th 2011 and saw a 3-0 victory. The others were 2-0 wins in 1966 and 1964.

City's heavies defeat at Fratton Park is a 2-0 loss on April 9th 1966.

For a look at matches between City and Portsmouth, please click on http://www.coventrycity-mad.co.uk/head_to_head/next/vs/match/index.shtml.

Source: Coventry MAD

Source: FOOTYMAD