Manchester City 3-1 Southampton: result and report
Premier League · Saturday 28 November 2015
Result
Manchester City 3-1 Southampton
Premier League · Saturday 28 November 2015, 15:00 UTC · half-time 2-0
Manchester City 3-1 Southampton: match report
Manchester City won against Southampton 3-1 in the Premier League on Saturday 28 November 2015. It was 2-0 at half-time.
Kevin De Bruyne opened the scoring in the 9th minute. Manchester City's goals came from Kevin De Bruyne (9'), Fabian Delph (20') and Aleksandar Kolarov (69'). Southampton scored through Ingo Goetze (49').
Discipline: Manchester City received 2 yellow cards; Southampton received 1 yellow card.
Going into the game Manchester City were 1st on 26 points from 13 and Southampton 8th on 20 points from 13. Manchester City went on to finish that season 5th with 64 points, and Southampton 7th with 63.
Manchester City lined up in a 4-2-3-1 and Southampton in a 4-1-4-1. The highest match rating in our data went to Sadio Mané of Southampton (7.4), ahead of Virgil van Dijk (7.3).
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 6 Manchester City wins, 2 draws and 2 for Southampton.
Key events
- 9'Goal · Kevin De Bruyne
- 20'Goal · Fabian Delph
- 49'Goal · Ingo Goetze
- 55'Yellow card · James Ward-Prowse
- 56'Yellow card · Martín Demichelis
- 69'Goal · Aleksandar Kolarov
- 90+1'Yellow card · Aleksandar Kolarov
Head-to-head
Team news
Manchester City expected line-up (4-2-3-1)
Joe Hart, Nicolás Otamendi, Bacary Sagna, Yaya Touré, Fernandinho, Fernando, Kevin De Bruyne, Jesús Navas, Wilfried Bony, Vincent Kompany
Southampton line-up (4-1-4-1)
Maarten Stekelenburg, Maya Yoshida, José Fonte, Virgil van Dijk, Ryan Bertrand, Victor Wanyama, Sadio Mané, James Ward-Prowse, Oriol Romeu, Steven Davis, Shane Long