Tottenham Hotspur 2-1 Manchester City: result and report

Premier League · Saturday 8 April 2006

Result

Tottenham Hotspur 2-1 Manchester City

Premier League · Saturday 8 April 2006, 11:45 UTC · half-time 1-0

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Tottenham Hotspur 2-1 Manchester City: match report

Tottenham Hotspur won against Manchester City 2-1 in the Premier League on Saturday 8 April 2006. The half-time score was 1-0.

Paul Stalteri opened the scoring in the 44th minute. Tottenham Hotspur's goals came from Paul Stalteri (44') and Michael Carrick (49'). Manchester City scored through Georgios Samaras (52').

Discipline: Tottenham Hotspur received no yellow cards; Manchester City received 2 yellow cards.

Going into the game Tottenham Hotspur were 4th on 55 points from 32 and Manchester City 13th on 40 points from 32. Tottenham Hotspur went on to finish that season 5th with 65 points, and Manchester City 15th with 43.

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 5 Tottenham Hotspur wins, 3 draws and 1 for Manchester City.

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

Data as of 3 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 26'Yellow card · Darius VassellManchester City
  • 44'Goal · Paul StalteriTottenham Hotspur · 1-0
  • 49'Goal · Michael CarrickTottenham Hotspur · 2-0
  • 52'Goal · Georgios SamarasManchester City · 2-1
  • 59'Yellow card · Micah RichardsManchester City

Head-to-head

9 meetings: Tottenham Hotspur 5, draws 3, Manchester City 1.

Team news

Tottenham Hotspur line-up

Paul Robinson, Paul Stalteri, Young-Pyo Lee, Ledley King, Anthony Gardner, Michael Carrick, Jermaine Jenas, Teemu Tainio, R. Keane, Mido, Aaron Lennon

Manchester City line-up

Ben Thatcher, Sylvain Distin, Danny Mills, Richard Dunne, Micah Richards, Claudio Reyna, Kizito Kiki Musampa, Trevor Sinclair, Darius Vassell, Georgios Samaras, David James