Manchester City 0-1 Liverpool: result and report

Premier League · Saturday 26 November 2005

Result

Manchester City 0-1 Liverpool

Premier League · Saturday 26 November 2005, 15:00 UTC · half-time 0-0

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Manchester City 0-1 Liverpool: match report

Manchester City were beaten by Liverpool 0-1 in the Premier League on Saturday 26 November 2005. It was 0-0 at half-time.

The only goal came from J. Riise of Liverpool in the 61st minute.

Discipline: Manchester City received no yellow cards; Liverpool received 2 yellow cards.

Going into the game Manchester City were 7th on 21 points from 13 and Liverpool 9th on 19 points from 11. Manchester City went on to finish that season 15th with 43 points, and Liverpool 3rd with 82.

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 2 Manchester City wins, 2 draws and 4 for Liverpool.

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

Data as of 3 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 45'Yellow card · Djibril CisséLiverpool
  • 61'Goal · J. RiiseLiverpool · 0-1
  • 65'Yellow card · Peter CrouchLiverpool

Head-to-head

8 meetings: Manchester City 2, draws 2, Liverpool 4.

Team news

Manchester City line-up

Sylvain Distin, Danny Mills, Richard Dunne, Stephen Jordan, Kizito Kiki Musampa, Stephen Ireland, Andy Cole, Darius Vassell, Lee Croft, David James, Joey Barton

Liverpool line-up

Pepe Reina, Steve Finnan, John Arne Semundseth Riise, Jamie Carragher, Stephen Warnock, Dietmar Hamann, Mohamed Sissoko, Djibril Cissé, Peter Crouch, Sami Hyypia, Steven Gerrard