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.

Data as of 3 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 32'Goal · Trevor SinclairManchester City · 1-0
  • 39'Goal · Darius VassellManchester City · 2-0
  • 45'Yellow card · Wayne RooneyManchester United
  • 66'Red card · Cristiano RonaldoManchester United
  • 76'Goal · Ruud van NistelrooyManchester United · 2-1
  • 77'Yellow card · David JamesManchester City
  • 90'Yellow card · Robbie FowlerManchester City
  • 90'Goal · Robbie FowlerManchester City · 3-1

Head-to-head

9 meetings: Manchester City 2, draws 4, Manchester United 3.

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