Everton 2-1 Manchester City: result and report

Premier League · Sunday 26 December 2004

Result

Everton 2-1 Manchester City

Premier League · Sunday 26 December 2004, 15:00 UTC · half-time 1-1

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Everton 2-1 Manchester City: match report

Everton won against Manchester City 2-1 in the Premier League on Sunday 26 December 2004. The half-time score was 1-1.

Tim Cahill opened the scoring in the 22nd minute. Everton's goals came from Tim Cahill (22') and Marcus Bent (63'). Manchester City scored through Robbie Fowler (42').

Discipline: Everton received 1 yellow card; Manchester City received 2 yellow cards and 1 red card.

Going into the game Everton were 3rd on 37 points from 18 and Manchester City 11th on 23 points from 18. Everton went on to finish that season 4th with 61 points, and Manchester City 8th with 52.

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 2 Everton wins, 2 draws and 3 for Manchester City.

Going into the match Everton's last five read D-W-W-D-W and Manchester City's W-L-L-W-W.

Data as of 3 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 22'Goal · Tim CahillEverton · 1-0
  • 42'Goal · Robbie FowlerManchester City · 1-1
  • 43'Yellow card · Robbie FowlerManchester City
  • 63'Goal · Marcus BentEverton · 2-1
  • 73'Yellow card · Danny MillsManchester City
  • 74'Yellow card · Thomas GravesenEverton
  • 83'Red card · C. NegouaiManchester City

Head-to-head

7 meetings: Everton 2, draws 2, Manchester City 3.

Team news

Manchester City line-up

Sylvain Distin, Danny Mills, Richard Dunne, Stephen Jordan, Shaun Wright-Phillips, Jon Macken, Nicolas Anelka, David James, Robbie Fowler, Antoine Sibierski, Paul Bosvelt