17:52, Manchester City 3 Portsmouth 1: FULL TIME
17:52, Manchester City 3 Portsmouth 1: CITY SUBSTITUTION: Elano off, Felipe Caicedo on.
17:49, Manchester City 3 Portsmouth 1: Outstanding save by Hart denies Sean Davis's powerful shot.
17:46, Manchester City 3 Portsmouth 1: POMPEY SUBSTITUTION: Sean Davis on, Nico Kranjcar off.
17:44, Manchester City 3 Portsmouth 1: Baros makes an early impact by beating City's defence to go one-on-one with Hart but the keeper stands tall and blocks his shot.
17:37, Manchester City 3 Portsmouth 1: POMPEY / CITY SUBSTITUTIONS: Papa Bouba Diop and John Utaka off, Lucien Aubey and Milan Baros on / Geovanni on, Stephen Ireland off.
17:35, Manchester City 3 Portsmouth 1: GOAL: Benjani beats James at his near post after turning Pompey's Sylvain Distin inside out.
Friend to foe: Former Pompey player Benjani guides his shot towards goal for City's third
17:24, Manchester City 2 Portsmouth 1: Pompey's Diop blazes a drive over Hart's bar from 25 yards.
17:23, Manchester City 2 Portsmouth 1: Petrov sends over a good cross from the left that David James punches away. Michael Johnson collects the loose ball but his shot from the edge of the area is blocked.
17:21, Manchester City 2 Portsmouth 1: City's Vassell has only James to beat but shoots into the side netting from 10 yards out.
17:17, Manchester City 2 Portsmouth 1: Pompey's Sulley Muntari's drives a shot from the left side of the box but it's tipped on to the right post by Joe Hart. The ball rebounds back into the area but Utaka side-foots the ball into City's side-netting on the other side of the goal.
17:16, Manchester City 2 Portsmouth 1: Benjani controls the ball in the box and shoots from six yards on the turn but fires his volley over.
17:15, Manchester City 2 Portsmouth 1: CITY SUBSTITUTION: Dunne off, Sam Williamson on.
17:11, Manchester City 2 Portsmouth 1: Pompey's Defoe tries to meet a left cross in the City area but is muscled off the ball by Richard Dunne. Appeal for a penalty is waved away.
17:07, Manchester City 2 Portsmouth 1: SECOND HALF, KICK OFF
16:51, Manchester City 2 Portsmouth 1: HALF TIME
16:50, Manchester City 2 Portsmouth 1: An ingeniously searching shot by Vassell from Pompey's left side, just outside the area, looks to be arcing over James into the goal's far corner but the keeper makes an athletic save. Parried for a corner which comes to nothing.
16:47, Manchester City 2 Portsmouth 1: Brilliant left cross from Petrov dealt with by a stretching Campbell. Corner.
16:44, Manchester City 2 Portsmouth 1: RED CARD: Hermann Hreidarsson of Portsmouth for pulling down Vassell just outside the box when he was one-on-one with James. Free-kick comes to nothing.
16:36, Manchester City 2 Portsmouth 1: Benjani shoots from the edge of the box but James saves.
16:33, Manchester City 2 Portsmouth 1: Benjani misses a great opportunity by heading straight at David James from Michael Johnson's right cross.
16:27, Manchester City 2 Portsmouth 1: GOAL: Portsmouth pull one back. John Utaka links up with Jermain Defoe's goal-bound header and as the City defence stop in their tracks because they believe he is offside, Utaka takes advantage of their misjudgment and clips the ball under keeper Joe Hart.
Eye for goal: John Utaka keeps his composure to beat City's Joe Hart
16:20, Manchester City 2 Portsmouth 0: Diop powers his header from Nico Kranjcar's left cross over the bar from three yards.
16:16, Manchester City 2 Portsmouth 0: GOAL: Petrov scores by toe-poking the ball through Campbell's legs on the left side of Pompey's area. James unsighted and off balance.
Good start: Martin Petrov is congratulated by Darius Vassell
16:14, Manchester City 1 Portsmouth 0: GOAL: Chaos in the Portsmouth defence - David 'Calamity' James comes to the far right corner of his area to meet Sol Campbell for the ball but is beaten to the ball by City's Benjani who passes it in for Stephen Ireland who crosses for Darius Vassell to slide the ball into the unmanned goal at the far post.
At a stretch: Darius Vassell defends City's lead
16:06, Manchester City 0 Portsmouth 0: Slyvain Distin gets his head on a right-sided corner but directs it into the ground and wide.
16:04, Manchester City 0 Portsmouth 0: Pompey's Papa Bouba Diop drives a shot from 40 yards out but City keeper Joe Hart dive to his left and parry the ball away.
16:00, Manchester City 0 Portsmouth 0: KICK OFF
Sven-Goran Eriksson included Darius Vassell in his line-up as he looked to maintain Manchester City's outside hopes of a place in Europe by beating Portsmouth at Eastlands.
Vassell stepped in for Sun Jihai who reported ill, meaning a right-back role for Elano - not exactly ideal for owner Thaksin Shinawatra who spent £8million on the Brazilian playmaker last year.
Pompey will be hoping to close the gap on fifth-placed Everton to one point.
Man City: Hart, Elano, Corluka, Dunne, Ball, Vassell, Ireland, Gelson, Johnson, Petrov, Mwaruwari. Subs: Isaksson, Geovanni, Caicedo, Castillo, Williamson.
Portsmouth: James, Lauren, Campbell, Distin, Hreidarsson, Utaka, Muntari, Diarra, Diop, Kranjcar, Defoe. Subs: Begovic, Aubey, Baros, Nugent, Davis.
Referee: Andre Marriner (W Midlands)
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