Middlesbrough 0-2 Manchester City: result and report

Premier League · Saturday 17 March 2007

Result

Middlesbrough 0-2 Manchester City

Premier League · Saturday 17 March 2007, 15:00 UTC · half-time 0-0

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Middlesbrough 0-2 Manchester City: match report

Middlesbrough lost to Manchester City 0-2 in the Premier League on Saturday 17 March 2007. The half-time score was 0-0.

Sylvain Distin opened the scoring in the 62nd minute. Middlesbrough did not score. Manchester City scored through Sylvain Distin (62') and Emile Mpenza Lokonda (74').

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

Going into the game Middlesbrough were 12th on 36 points from 29 and Manchester City 17th on 30 points from 28. Middlesbrough went on to finish that season 12th with 46 points, and Manchester City 14th with 42.

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 5 Middlesbrough wins, 4 draws and 1 for Manchester City.

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

Data as of 3 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 50'Yellow card · Joey BartonManchester City
  • 56'Yellow card · L. CattermoleMiddlesbrough
  • 62'Goal · Sylvain DistinManchester City · 0-1
  • 74'Goal · Emile Mpenza LokondaManchester City · 0-2
  • 75'Yellow card · Emile Mpenza LokondaManchester City

Head-to-head

10 meetings: Middlesbrough 5, draws 4, Manchester City 1.

Team news

Middlesbrough line-up

Mark Schwarzer, Stuart Parnaby, Emanuel Pogatetz, Andrew Taylor, George Boateng, Stewart Downing, Lee Cattermole, Jason Euell, Lee Dong-Gook, Yakubu Aiyegbeni, Abel da Silva Costa Xavier

Manchester City line-up

Andreas Isaksson, Micah Richards, Michael Ball, Sylvain Distin, Richard Dunne, Dietmar Hamann, Michael Johnson, Emile Mpenza Lokonda, Darius Vassell, Joey Barton, Sun Jihai