Manchester City 1-0 Sunderland: result and report
Premier League · Monday 5 November 2007
Result
Manchester City 1-0 Sunderland
Premier League · Monday 5 November 2007, 20:00 UTC · half-time 0-0
Manchester City 1-0 Sunderland: match report
Manchester City beat Sunderland 1-0 in the Premier League on Monday 5 November 2007. It was 0-0 at half-time.
The only goal came from Stephen Ireland of Manchester City in the 66th minute.
Discipline: Manchester City received no yellow cards; Sunderland received 1 yellow card.
Going into the game Manchester City were 6th on 22 points from 11 and Sunderland 15th on 9 points from 11. Manchester City went on to finish that season 9th with 55 points, and Sunderland 15th with 39.
Manchester City lined up in a 4-4-1-1 and Sunderland in a 4-5-1.
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 5 Manchester City wins, 0 draws and 1 for Sunderland.
Going into the match Manchester City's last five read L-W-W-W-D and Sunderland's D-L-L-L-D.
Key events
- 66'Goal · Stephen Ireland
- 79'Yellow card · Nyron Nosworthy
Head-to-head
Team news
Manchester City line-up (4-4-1-1)
Joe Hart, Vedran Ćorluka, Richard Dunne, Javier Garrido, Michael Johnson, Stephen Ireland, Martin Petrov, Dietmar Hamann, Emile Mpenza Lokonda, Elano, Sun Jihai
Sunderland line-up (4-5-1)
Craig Gordon, Ian Harte, Nyron Nosworthy, Danny Higginbotham, Danny Collins, Dickson Etuhu, Liam Miller, Grant Leadbitter, Anthony Stokes, Daryl Murphy, Kenwyne Jones