Manchester City 1-3 Southampton: result and report

Premier League · Saturday 17 April 2004

Result

Manchester City 1-3 Southampton

Premier League · Saturday 17 April 2004, 14:00 UTC · half-time 0-1

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Manchester City 1-3 Southampton: match report

Manchester City lost to Southampton 1-3 in the Premier League on Saturday 17 April 2004. The half-time score was 0-1.

James Beattie opened the scoring in the 34th minute. Manchester City's goal came from Nicolas Anelka (78'). Southampton scored through James Beattie (34'), Kevin Phillips (55') and Kevin Phillips (81').

Discipline: Manchester City received 1 yellow card; Southampton received 1 yellow card.

Going into the game Manchester City were 16th on 34 points from 33 and Southampton 11th on 42 points from 32. Manchester City went on to finish that season 16th with 41 points, and Southampton 12th with 47.

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 2 Manchester City wins, 0 draws and 3 for Southampton.

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

Data as of 3 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 34'Goal · James BeattieSouthampton · 0-1
  • 55'Goal · Kevin PhillipsSouthampton · 0-2
  • 78'Goal · Nicolas AnelkaManchester City · 1-2
  • 80'Yellow card · James BeattieSouthampton
  • 81'Goal · Kevin PhillipsSouthampton · 1-3
  • 90'Yellow card · Richard DunneManchester City

Head-to-head

5 meetings: Manchester City 2, draws 0, Southampton 3.

Team news

Manchester City line-up

Sylvain Distin, Michael Tarnat, Richard Dunne, Steve McManaman, Shaun Wright-Phillips, Nicolas Anelka, David James, Robbie Fowler, Antoine Sibierski, Sun Jihai, Paul Bosvelt