Manchester United 3-1 Manchester City: result and report
Premier League · Saturday 9 December 2006
Result
Manchester United 3-1 Manchester City
Premier League · Saturday 9 December 2006, 12:45 UTC · half-time 2-0
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Manchester United 3-1 Manchester City: match report
Manchester United beat Manchester City 3-1 in the Premier League on Saturday 9 December 2006. The half-time score was 2-0.
Wayne Rooney opened the scoring in the 5th minute. Manchester United's goals came from Wayne Rooney (5'), Louis Saha (45') and Cristiano Ronaldo (84'). Manchester City scored through Hatem Trabelsi (72').
Discipline: Manchester United received 1 yellow card; Manchester City received 3 yellow cards and 1 red card.
Going into the game Manchester United were 1st on 41 points from 16 and Manchester City 12th on 20 points from 16. Manchester United went on to finish that season 1st with 89 points, and Manchester City 14th with 42.
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 3 Manchester United wins, 4 draws and 3 for Manchester City.
Going into the match Manchester United's last five read W-W-D-W-W and Manchester City's D-W-L-W-D.
Key events
- 5'Goal · Wayne Rooney
- 14'Yellow card · Ben Thatcher
- 22'Yellow card · Claudio Reyna
- 45'Goal · Louis Saha
- 55'Yellow card · Wayne Rooney
- 61'Yellow card · B. Corradi
- 72'Goal · Hatem Trabelsi
- 84'Goal · Cristiano Ronaldo
- 90'Second yellow · B. Corradi
Head-to-head
Team news
Manchester United expected line-up
Edwin van der Sar, Rio Ferdinand, Wes Brown, John O'Shea, Patrice Evra, Kieran Richardson, Louis Saha, Cristiano Ronaldo, Ryan Giggs, Gary Neville
Manchester City expected line-up
Nicky Weaver, Richard Dunne, Micah Richards, Sylvain Distin, Ben Thatcher, Trevor Sinclair, Claudio Reyna, Darius Vassell, Joey Barton, Paul Dickov