Stoke City 1-0 Manchester City: result and report
Premier League · Saturday 31 January 2009
Result
Stoke City 1-0 Manchester City
Premier League · Saturday 31 January 2009, 12:45 UTC · half-time 1-0
Stoke City 1-0 Manchester City: match report
Stoke City defeated Manchester City 1-0 in the Premier League on Saturday 31 January 2009. The half-time score was 1-0.
The only goal came from James Beattie of Stoke City in the 45th minute.
Discipline: Stoke City received 1 yellow card and 1 red card; Manchester City received 1 yellow card.
Going into the game Stoke City were 19th on 21 points from 23 and Manchester City 9th on 28 points from 22. Stoke City went on to finish that season 12th with 45 points, and Manchester City 10th with 50.
Stoke City lined up in a 4-4-2 and Manchester City in a 4-4-2.
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 0 Stoke City wins, 0 draws and 1 for Manchester City.
Going into the match Stoke City's last five read L-L-D-L-L and Manchester City's W-W-D-W-L.
Key events
- 37'Red card · Rory Delap
- 45+5'Goal · James Beattie
- 55'Yellow card · Elano
- 89'Yellow card · Andy Wilkinson
Head-to-head
Team news
Stoke City expected line-up (4-4-2)
Thomas Sorensen, Andy Griffin, Abdoulaye Faye, Danny Higginbotham, Ibrahima Sonko, Salif Diao, Amdy Faye, Mamady Sidibé, Dave Kitson, Rory Delap
Manchester City expected line-up (4-4-2)
Joe Hart, Richard Dunne, Javier Garrido, Michael Ball, Stephen Ireland, Martin Petrov, Gelson Fernandes, Michael Johnson, Benjamin Mwaruwari, Darius Vassell, Vedran Ćorluka