Manchester City 3-1 Middlesbrough: result and report

Premier League · Sunday 7 October 2007

Result

Manchester City 3-1 Middlesbrough

Premier League · Sunday 7 October 2007, 14:00 UTC · half-time 2-0

Manchester City · Middlesbrough · Premier League predictions

Manchester City 3-1 Middlesbrough: match report

Manchester City won against Middlesbrough 3-1 in the Premier League on Sunday 7 October 2007. It was 2-0 at half-time.

Manchester City's goals came from an own goal by Chris Riggott (10'), Elano (33') and Elano (63'). Middlesbrough scored through Ben Hutchinson (89').

Discipline: Manchester City received 2 yellow cards; Middlesbrough received 3 yellow cards.

Going into the game Manchester City were 3rd on 16 points from 8 and Middlesbrough 14th on 8 points from 8. Manchester City went on to finish that season 9th with 55 points, and Middlesbrough 13th with 42.

Manchester City lined up in a 4-4-1-1 and Middlesbrough in a 4-4-2.

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 2 Manchester City wins, 3 draws and 5 for Middlesbrough.

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

Data as of 3 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 10'Own goal · Chris RiggottManchester City · 1-0
  • 33'Goal · ElanoManchester City · 2-0
  • 62'Yellow card · Jonathan WoodgateMiddlesbrough
  • 63'Goal · ElanoManchester City · 3-0
  • 74'Yellow card · Luke YoungMiddlesbrough
  • 80'Yellow card · Gary O'NeilMiddlesbrough
  • 83'Yellow card · Micah RichardsManchester City
  • 89'Goal · Ben HutchinsonMiddlesbrough · 3-1
  • 90+2'Yellow card · Diego GómezManchester City

Head-to-head

10 meetings: Manchester City 2, draws 3, Middlesbrough 5.

Team news

Manchester City line-up (4-4-1-1)

Joe Hart, Micah Richards, Vedran Ćorluka, Richard Dunne, Javier Garrido, Michael Johnson, Stephen Ireland, Martin Petrov, Dietmar Hamann, Emile Mpenza Lokonda, Elano

Middlesbrough expected line-up (4-4-2)

Mark Schwarzer, David Wheater, Andrew Taylor, Luke Young, Stewart Downing, Julio Arca, George Boateng, Fábio Rochemback, Jérémie Aliadière, Mido, Jonathan Woodgate