Manchester City 1-1 Newcastle United: result and report

Premier League · Wednesday 2 February 2005

Result

Manchester City 1-1 Newcastle United

Premier League · Wednesday 2 February 2005, 19:45 UTC · half-time 0-1

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Manchester City 1-1 Newcastle United: match report

Manchester City drew with Newcastle United 1-1 in the Premier League on Wednesday 2 February 2005. The half-time score was 0-1.

Alan Shearer opened the scoring in the 9th minute. Manchester City's goal came from Robbie Fowler (49', penalty). Newcastle United scored through Alan Shearer (9').

Discipline: Manchester City received 2 yellow cards; Newcastle United received 3 yellow cards.

Going into the game Manchester City were 10th on 31 points from 24 and Newcastle United 13th on 29 points from 24. Manchester City went on to finish that season 8th with 52 points, and Newcastle United 14th with 44.

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 3 Manchester City wins, 0 draws and 4 for Newcastle United.

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

Data as of 3 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 9'Goal · Alan ShearerNewcastle United · 0-1
  • 38'Yellow card · Jermaine JenasNewcastle United
  • 49'Penalty goal · Robbie FowlerManchester City · 1-1
  • 55'Yellow card · Lee BowyerNewcastle United
  • 56'Yellow card · Sylvain DistinManchester City
  • 71'Yellow card · Andrew O'BrienNewcastle United
  • 83'Yellow card · Paul BosveltManchester City

Head-to-head

7 meetings: Manchester City 3, draws 0, Newcastle United 4.

Team news

Manchester City expected line-up

Sylvain Distin, Richard Dunne, Danny Mills, Shaun Wright-Phillips, Nicolas Anelka, David James, Paul Bosvelt, Antoine Sibierski, Sun Jihai, Robbie Fowler