Manchester City 3-1 Manchester United: result and report
Premier League · Saturday 14 January 2006
Result
Manchester City 3-1 Manchester United
Premier League · Saturday 14 January 2006, 12:45 UTC · half-time 2-0
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Manchester City 3-1 Manchester United: match report
Manchester City won against Manchester United 3-1 in the Premier League on Saturday 14 January 2006. It was 2-0 at half-time.
Trevor Sinclair opened the scoring in the 32nd minute. Manchester City's goals came from Trevor Sinclair (32'), Darius Vassell (39') and Robbie Fowler (90'). Manchester United scored through Ruud van Nistelrooy (76').
Discipline: Manchester City received 2 yellow cards; Manchester United received 1 yellow card and 1 red card.
Going into the game Manchester City were 9th on 28 points from 21 and Manchester United 2nd on 45 points from 21. Manchester City went on to finish that season 15th with 43 points, and Manchester United 2nd with 83.
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 2 Manchester City wins, 4 draws and 3 for Manchester United.
Going into the match Manchester City's last five read L-D-L-L-W and Manchester United's D-W-D-W-W.
Key events
- 32'Goal · Trevor Sinclair
- 39'Goal · Darius Vassell
- 45'Yellow card · Wayne Rooney
- 66'Red card · Cristiano Ronaldo
- 76'Goal · Ruud van Nistelrooy
- 77'Yellow card · David James
- 90'Yellow card · Robbie Fowler
- 90'Goal · Robbie Fowler
Head-to-head
Team news
Manchester City line-up
Sylvain Distin, Richard Dunne, Stephen Jordan, Albert Riera, Trevor Sinclair, Stephen Ireland, Andy Cole, Darius Vassell, David James, Joey Barton, Sun Jihai
Manchester United expected line-up
Roy Carroll, Mikaël Silvestre, John O'Shea, Rio Ferdinand, Wes Brown, Cristiano Ronaldo, Louis Saha, Paul Scholes, Ruud van Nistelrooy, Alan Smith, Gary Neville