Manchester City 4-1 Manchester United: result and report

Premier League · Sunday 14 March 2004

Result

Manchester City 4-1 Manchester United

Premier League · Sunday 14 March 2004, 14:00 UTC · half-time 2-1

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Manchester City 4-1 Manchester United: match report

Manchester City won against Manchester United 4-1 in the Premier League on Sunday 14 March 2004. It was 2-1 at half-time.

Robbie Fowler opened the scoring in the 3rd minute. Manchester City's goals came from Robbie Fowler (3'), Jon Macken (32'), Trevor Sinclair (73') and Shaun Wright-Phillips (90'). Manchester United scored through Paul Scholes (35').

Discipline: Manchester City received 1 yellow card; Manchester United received 2 yellow cards.

Going into the game Manchester City were 16th on 27 points from 27 and Manchester United 3rd on 58 points from 27. Manchester City went on to finish that season 16th with 41 points, and Manchester United 3rd with 75.

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 1 Manchester City win, 2 draws and 2 for Manchester United.

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

Data as of 3 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 3'Goal · Robbie FowlerManchester City · 1-0
  • 14'Yellow card · Nicky ButtManchester United
  • 14'Yellow card · Sylvain DistinManchester City
  • 15'Yellow card · Paul ScholesManchester United
  • 32'Goal · Jon MackenManchester City · 2-0
  • 35'Goal · Paul ScholesManchester United · 2-1
  • 73'Goal · Trevor SinclairManchester City · 3-1
  • 90'Goal · Shaun Wright-PhillipsManchester City · 4-1

Head-to-head

5 meetings: Manchester City 1, draws 2, Manchester United 2.

Team news

Manchester City line-up

Daniel Van Buyten, Sylvain Distin, Michael Tarnat, Richard Dunne, Claudio Reyna, Steve McManaman, Shaun Wright-Phillips, Jon Macken, David James, Robbie Fowler, Antoine Sibierski

Manchester United expected line-up

Tim Howard, Rio Ferdinand, Quinton Fortune Kolobea, Darren Fletcher, Eric Djemba-Djemba, Ruud van Nistelrooy, Nicky Butt, Gary Neville, John O'Shea, Ryan Giggs, Diego Forlán Corazo