Everton 2-1 Manchester City: result and report
Premier League · Saturday 7 May 2011
Result
Everton 2-1 Manchester City
Premier League · Saturday 7 May 2011, 14:00 UTC · half-time 0-1
Everton 2-1 Manchester City: match report
Everton defeated Manchester City 2-1 in the Premier League on Saturday 7 May 2011. The half-time score was 0-1.
Yaya Touré opened the scoring in the 28th minute. Everton's goals came from Sylvain Distin (66') and Leon Osman (72'). Manchester City scored through Yaya Touré (28').
Discipline: Everton received 4 yellow cards; Manchester City received 2 yellow cards.
Going into the game Everton were 7th on 48 points from 35 and Manchester City 4th on 62 points from 34. Everton went on to finish that season 7th with 54 points, and Manchester City 3rd with 71.
Everton lined up in a 4-4-2 and Manchester City in a 4-2-3-1.
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 7 Everton wins, 1 draw and 2 for Manchester City.
Going into the match Everton's last five read D-L-W-W-D and Manchester City's W-W-L-W-L.
Key events
- 28'Goal · Yaya Touré
- 45+1'Yellow card · Phil Neville
- 61'Yellow card · Vincent Kompany
- 61'Yellow card · J. Rodwell
- 66'Goal · Sylvain Distin
- 67'Yellow card · Leon Osman
- 72'Goal · Leon Osman
- 72'Yellow card · Aleksandar Kolarov
- 90+1'Yellow card · S. Coleman
Head-to-head
Team news
Everton expected line-up (4-4-2)
Tim Howard, Leighton Baines, Lucas Neill, Tony Hibbert, Joseph Yobo, Steven Pienaar, Marouane Fellaini, Diniyar Bilyaletdinov, Tim Cahill, Louis Saha, Johnny Heitinga
Manchester City expected line-up (4-2-3-1)
Micah Richards, Jérôme Boateng, Shaun Wright-Phillips, Adam Johnson, James Milner, David Silva, Germán Gonzalo Cabrera