Liverpool 1-0 Manchester City: result and report

Premier League · Sunday 26 February 2006

Result

Liverpool 1-0 Manchester City

Premier League · Sunday 26 February 2006, 12:15 UTC · half-time 1-0

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Liverpool 1-0 Manchester City: match report

Liverpool beat Manchester City 1-0 in the Premier League on Sunday 26 February 2006. It was 1-0 at half-time.

The only goal came from Harry Kewell of Liverpool in the 40th minute.

Discipline: Liverpool received no yellow cards; Manchester City received 1 yellow card.

Going into the game Liverpool were 3rd on 51 points from 26 and Manchester City 10th on 37 points from 26. Liverpool went on to finish that season 3rd with 82 points, and Manchester City 15th with 43.

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 5 Liverpool wins, 2 draws and 2 for Manchester City.

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

Data as of 3 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 40'Goal · Harry KewellLiverpool · 1-0
  • 90'Yellow card · Georgios SamarasManchester City

Head-to-head

9 meetings: Liverpool 5, draws 2, Manchester City 2.

Team news

Liverpool line-up

Pepe Reina, Steve Finnan, Daniel Agger, John Arne Semundseth Riise, Peter Crouch, Morientes, Jan Kromkamp, Sami Hyypia, Harry Kewell, Steven Gerrard, Xabi Alonso

Manchester City line-up

Sylvain Distin, Danny Mills, Richard Dunne, Stephen Jordan, Antoine Sibierski, Kizito Kiki Musampa, Albert Riera, Trevor Sinclair, Georgios Samaras, David James, Joey Barton