Chelsea 2-0 Manchester City: result and report
Premier League · Saturday 25 March 2006
Result
Chelsea 2-0 Manchester City
Premier League · Saturday 25 March 2006, 15:00 UTC · half-time 2-0
Chelsea 2-0 Manchester City: match report
Chelsea beat Manchester City 2-0 in the Premier League on Saturday 25 March 2006. The half-time score was 2-0.
Didier Drogba opened the scoring in the 30th minute. Chelsea's goals came from Didier Drogba (30') and Didier Drogba (33'). Manchester City did not score.
Discipline: Chelsea received 1 yellow card; Manchester City received 2 yellow cards.
Going into the game Chelsea were 1st on 75 points from 30 and Manchester City 11th on 40 points from 30. Chelsea went on to finish that season 1st with 91 points, and Manchester City 15th with 43.
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 7 Chelsea wins, 1 draw and 1 for Manchester City.
Going into the match Chelsea's last five read L-W-W-W-L and Manchester City's L-L-W-L-W.
Key events
- 24'Yellow card · Danny Mills
- 30'Goal · Didier Drogba
- 33'Goal · Didier Drogba
- 35'Yellow card · K. Musampa
- 62'Yellow card · Joe Cole
Head-to-head
Team news
Chelsea expected line-up
Petr Čech, Damien Duff, William Gallas, John Terry, Del Horno, Michael Essien, Arjen Robben, Didier Drogba, Eiður Guðjohnsen, Claude Makélélé
Manchester City line-up
David Sommeil, Ben Thatcher, Sylvain Distin, Danny Mills, Richard Dunne, Micah Richards, Kizito Kiki Musampa, Stephen Ireland, Willo Flood, Darius Vassell, David James