Manchester City 2-2 Liverpool: result and report
Premier League · Sunday 28 December 2003
Result
Manchester City 2-2 Liverpool
Premier League · Sunday 28 December 2003, 15:00 UTC · half-time 1-0
Manchester City 2-2 Liverpool: match report
Manchester City drew with Liverpool 2-2 in the Premier League on Sunday 28 December 2003. The half-time score was 1-0.
Nicolas Anelka opened the scoring in the 30th minute. Manchester City's goals came from Nicolas Anelka (30', penalty) and Robbie Fowler (90'). Liverpool scored through Vladimir Smicer (66') and Dietmar Hamann (80').
Discipline: Manchester City received 1 yellow card; Liverpool received 2 yellow cards.
Going into the game Manchester City were 14th on 20 points from 18 and Liverpool 9th on 25 points from 17. Manchester City went on to finish that season 16th with 41 points, and Liverpool 4th with 60.
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 1 Manchester City win, 1 draw and 2 for Liverpool.
Going into the match Manchester City's last five read L-D-L-D-L and Liverpool's W-L-D-W-D.
Key events
- 30'Penalty goal · Nicolas Anelka
- 42'Yellow card · Harry Kewell
- 42'Yellow card · David Sommeil
- 66'Goal · Vladimir Smicer
- 80'Goal · Dietmar Hamann
- 83'Yellow card · Igor Bišćan
- 90'Goal · Robbie Fowler
Head-to-head
Team news
Manchester City line-up
David Seaman, David Sommeil, Sylvain Distin, Michael Tarnat, Richard Dunne, Claudio Reyna, Steve McManaman, Shaun Wright-Phillips, Nicolas Anelka, Robbie Fowler, Paul Bosvelt