Manchester City 1-3 Chelsea: result and report

Premier League · Saturday 13 September 2008

Result

Manchester City 1-3 Chelsea

Premier League · Saturday 13 September 2008, 16:30 UTC · half-time 1-1

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Manchester City 1-3 Chelsea: match report

Manchester City lost to Chelsea 1-3 in the Premier League on Saturday 13 September 2008. The half-time score was 1-1.

Robinho opened the scoring in the 11th minute. Manchester City's goal came from Robinho (11'). Chelsea scored through Ricardo Carvalho (16'), Frank Lampard (53') and Nicolas Anelka (69').

Discipline: Manchester City received no yellow cards; Chelsea received 1 yellow card and 1 red card.

Going into the game Manchester City were 5th on 6 points from 3 and Chelsea 3rd on 7 points from 3. Manchester City went on to finish that season 10th with 50 points, and Chelsea 3rd with 83.

Manchester City lined up in a 4-4-1-1 and Chelsea in a 4-3-3.

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 1 Manchester City win, 1 draw and 8 for Chelsea.

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

Data as of 3 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 11'Goal · RobinhoManchester City · 1-0
  • 16'Goal · Ricardo CarvalhoChelsea · 1-1
  • 45'Yellow card · John Obi MikelChelsea
  • 53'Goal · Frank LampardChelsea · 1-2
  • 69'Goal · Nicolas AnelkaChelsea · 1-3
  • 77'Red card · John TerryChelsea

Head-to-head

10 meetings: Manchester City 1, draws 1, Chelsea 8.

Team news

Manchester City expected line-up (4-4-1-1)

Joe Hart, Vedran Ćorluka, Martin Petrov, Michael Johnson, Gelson Fernandes, Benjamin Mwaruwari, Elano, Richard Dunne, Sun Jihai

Chelsea expected line-up (4-3-3)

Petr Čech, Wayne Bridge, Ricardo Carvalho, Michael Ballack, Florent Malouda, Michael Essien, Nicolas Anelka, Juliano Haus Belletti, Claude Makélélé