Manchester United 1-0 Liverpool: result and report
Premier League · Sunday 22 January 2006
Result
Manchester United 1-0 Liverpool
Premier League · Sunday 22 January 2006, 16:00 UTC · half-time 0-0
Manchester United 1-0 Liverpool: match report
Manchester United won against Liverpool 1-0 in the Premier League on Sunday 22 January 2006. The half-time score was 0-0.
The only goal came from Rio Ferdinand of Manchester United in the 90th minute.
Discipline: Manchester United received 2 yellow cards; Liverpool received 3 yellow cards.
Going into the game Manchester United were 2nd on 45 points from 22 and Liverpool 3rd on 44 points from 20. Manchester United went on to finish that season 2nd with 83 points, and Liverpool 3rd with 82.
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 5 Manchester United wins, 1 draw and 4 for Liverpool.
Going into the match Manchester United's last five read L-D-W-D-W and Liverpool's W-D-W-W-W.
Key events
- 18'Yellow card · Kieran Richardson
- 18'Yellow card · Mohamed Sissoko
- 82'Yellow card · Xabi Alonso
- 88'Yellow card · Wayne Rooney
- 90'Goal · Rio Ferdinand
- 90'Yellow card · Steven Gerrard
Head-to-head
Team news
Manchester United expected line-up
Roy Carroll, Mikaël Silvestre, John O'Shea, Rio Ferdinand, Wes Brown, Cristiano Ronaldo, Louis Saha, Paul Scholes, Ruud van Nistelrooy, Alan Smith, Gary Neville
Liverpool line-up
Pepe Reina, Steve Finnan, John Arne Semundseth Riise, Jamie Carragher, Mohamed Sissoko, Djibril Cissé, Peter Crouch, Sami Hyypia, Harry Kewell, Steven Gerrard, Xabi Alonso