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Man United 3-0 Birmingham City - March 26, 2006 / Premier League 2005/2006

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Premier League 2005/2006 - Round 31

Old Trafford - Manchester - England

March 26, 2006

69 070

Man United

3 - 0

Birmingham City

Ryan Giggs

Assist by Wayne RooneyRyan Giggs

15'

Assist by Cristiano RonaldoWayne Rooney

83'

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3' - Goal Ryan Giggs3

15' - Goal Ryan Giggs15

25' - Yellow card Martin Latka

35' - Yellow card Jiri Jarosik

39' - Substitution Kieran Richardsonis substituted by Ji-sung Park39

45' - Yellow card Jermaine Pennant

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72' - Substitution Louis Sahais substituted by Ruud van Nistelrooy72

77' - Substitution Ryan Giggsis substituted by Darren Fletcher77

82' - Substitution Mario Melchiotis substituted by Olivier Tébily

83' - Goal Wayne Rooney83

87' - Substitution Stan Lazaridisis substituted by Alex Bruce photo Neil Kilkenny

87' - Substitution Emile Heskeyis substituted by Neil Kilkenny

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Team line-ups Key figures Pre-match Competition info

Man United

3 - 0

Birmingham City

Man United Birmingham City

Team line-ups

Man United

forward

offensive midfielder

midfielder

defensive midfielder

defender

sweeper

goalkeeper

9Saha72

Louis Saha

France

B.date08/08/1978

Age27 years

H1m81

positionStriker

8Rooney83

Wayne Rooney

England

B.date24/10/1985

Age20 years

H1m76

positionStriker

11Giggs31577

Ryan Giggs

Wales

B.date29/11/1973

Age32 years

H1m80

positionMidfield

23Richardson39

Kieran Richardson

England

B.date21/10/1984

Age21 years

H1m79

positionLeft Midfielder

22O'Shea

John O'Shea

Republic of Ireland

B.date30/04/1981

Age24 years

H1m90

positionRight full-back

7Ronaldo

Cristiano Ronaldo

Portugal

B.date05/02/1985

Age21 years

H1m85

positionRight Winger

27Silvestre

Mikaël Silvestre

France

B.date09/08/1977

Age28 years

H1m83

positionLeft central defender

15Vidic

Nemanja Vidic

Serbia

B.date21/10/1981

Age24 years

H1m89

positionRight central defender

5Ferdinand

Rio Ferdinand

England

B.date07/11/1978

Age27 years

H1m95

positionRight central defender

2Neville

Gary Neville

England

B.date18/02/1975

Age31 years

H1m79

positionRight full-back

19van der Sar

Edwin van der Sar

Netherlands

B.date29/10/1970

Age35 years

H1m97

positionGoalkeeper

First 11				Age	Match num	Note
19	G	Edwin van der Sar		35	43	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
5	D	Rio Ferdinand		27	159	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
15	D	Nemanja Vidic		24	9	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
27	D	Mikaël Silvestre		28	326	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
2	D	Gary Neville		31	499	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
22	M	John O'Shea		24	192	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
11	M	Ryan Giggs	31577	32	664	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
23	M	Kieran Richardson	39	21	54	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
9	F	Louis Saha	72	27	60	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
7	M	Cristiano Ronaldo		21	129	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
8	F	Wayne Rooney	83	20	85	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Average age

26.4 years

Average number of matches played for the team

202

Birmingham City

forward

offensive midfielder

midfielder

defensive midfielder

defender

sweeper

goalkeeper

16Heskey87

Emile Heskey

England

B.date11/01/1978

Age28 years

H1m88

positionStriker

28Campbell

DJ Campbell

England

B.date12/11/1981

Age24 years

H1m78

positionStriker

11Lazaridis87

Stan Lazaridis

Australia

B.date16/08/1972

Age33 years

H1m76

positionLeft Midfielder

25Clemence

Stephen Clemence

England

B.date31/03/1978

Age27 years

H1m80

positionLeft central midfielder

22Johnson

Damien Johnson

Northern Ireland

B.date18/11/1978

Age27 years

H1m76

positionRight central midfielder

7Pennant45

Jermaine Pennant

England

B.date15/01/1983

Age23 years

H1m73

positionRight Midfielder

14Jarosik35

Jiri Jarosik

Czech Republic

B.date27/10/1977

Age28 years

H1m94

positionLeft central defender

8Latka25

Martin Latka

Czech Republic

B.date28/09/1984

Age21 years

H1m92

positionCentral defender

4Cunningham

Kenny Cunningham

Republic of Ireland

B.date28/06/1971

Age34 years

H1m83

positionCentral defender

29Melchiot82

Mario Melchiot

Netherlands

B.date04/11/1976

Age29 years

H1m88

positionRight full-back

1Taylor

Maik Taylor

Northern Ireland

B.date04/09/1971

Age34 years

H1m93

positionGoalkeeper

First 11				Age	Match num	Note
1	G	Maik Taylor		34	115	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
8	D	Martin Latka	25	21	7	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
14	D	Jiri Jarosik	35	28	29	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
4	D	Kenny Cunningham		34	137	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
29	D	Mario Melchiot	82	29	63	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
11	M	Stan Lazaridis	87	33	160	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
22	M	Damien Johnson		27	147	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
7	M	Jermaine Pennant	45	23	52	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
25	M	Stephen Clemence		27	97	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
16	F	Emile Heskey	87	28	70	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
28	F	DJ Campbell		24	7	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Average age

28 years

Average number of matches played for the team

Substitutes				Age	Match num	Note
24	M	Darren Fletcher	77	22	106	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
13	M	Ji-sung Park	39	25	37	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
10	F	Ruud van Nistelrooy	72	29	212	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Substitutes				Age	Match num	Note
26	D	Olivier Tébily	82	30	83	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
24	D	Alex Bruce	87	21	11	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
15	M	Neil Kilkenny	87	20	23	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Changes in the starting players regarding the previous match

No changes regarding the previous match for the starting players

Changes in the starting players regarding the previous match

Stan Lazaridis

David Dunn

OUT

Martin Latka

Martin Taylor

OUT

Emile Heskey

Mikael Forssell

OUT

Jiri Jarosik

Jamie Clapham

OUT

DJ Campbell

Marcos Painter

OUT

Manager

Age

Match num

Sir Alex Ferguson

1088

Success rate in this team:

57 %

Success rate since the beginning of his career:

56 %

Ferguson vs Birmingham City

7 victories

2 draws

0 loss

Latest figure on March 26, 2006

Ferguson vs Bruce

7 victories

2 draws

0 loss

Latest figure on March 26, 2006

Manager

Age

Match num

Steve Bruce

193

Success rate in this team:

33 %

Success rate since the beginning of his career:

37 %

Bruce vs Man United

0 victory

2 draws

7 losses

Latest figure on March 26, 2006

Bruce vs Ferguson

0 victory

2 draws

7 losses

Latest figure on March 26, 2006

Referee

Michael Dean

44 victories	17 draws	23 losses	Man United84 matches	General total	Birmingham City29 matches	9 victories	8 draws	12 losses
2 victories	0 draw	1 loss	Man United3 matches	Season total	Birmingham City3 matches	0 victory	0 draw	3 losses
Latest figure on April 28, 2022					Latest figure on April 06, 2019

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Key figures

Man United keeps its 19 consecutive matches without a loss vs Birmingham City running (since 23/08/1980). It's a record streak. The previous one was back on the 07/03/1931 (8 matches)

The last time Maik Taylor scored an own goal in his professional career with , it was on the 20/04/2005 (with Manchester United vs Birmingham City )

Man United keeps its 14 consecutive matches without a draw running (since 14/01/2006). The last time this streak has been beaten, it was during the 27/09/2003-07/01/2004 time period (22 matches).

Read the next 19 key stats

General ranking

	1	Chelsea	78 pts	31 rd
+1	2	Manchester United	66 pts	30 rd
-1	3	Liverpool	64 pts	32 rd
	4	Tottenham	52 pts	30 rd
	5	Blackburn	52 pts	31 rd

General ranking

-1	16	Aston Villa	35 pts	31 rd
	17	West Bromwich Albion	27 pts	30 rd
	18	Birmingham City	24 pts	30 rd
	19	Portsmouth	24 pts	30 rd
	20	Sunderland	10 pts	31 rd

Pre-match

Current form

Home

VManchester United 4-1 Bolton Wanderers31/12/2005

VManchester United 5-0 Burton Albion18/01/2006

VManchester United 1-0 Liverpool22/01/2006

VManchester United 2-1 Blackburn25/01/2006

VManchester United 4-2 Fulham04/02/2006

VManchester United 2-0 Newcastle United12/03/2006

Overall

VPortsmouth 1-3 Manchester United11/02/2006

LLiverpool 1-0 Manchester United18/02/2006

VManchester United 4-0 Wigan26/02/2006

VWigan 1-2 Manchester United06/03/2006

VManchester United 2-0 Newcastle United12/03/2006

VWest Bromwich Albion 1-2 Manchester United18/03/2006

Current form

Away

LCharlton 2-0 Birmingham City14/01/2006

DReading 1-1 Birmingham City28/01/2006

DLiverpool 1-1 Birmingham City01/02/2006

LWest Ham 3-0 Birmingham City13/02/2006

VStoke City 0-1 Birmingham City19/02/2006

LMiddlesbrough 1-0 Birmingham City04/03/2006

Overall

VStoke City 0-1 Birmingham City19/02/2006

VBirmingham City 1-0 Sunderland25/02/2006

LMiddlesbrough 1-0 Birmingham City04/03/2006

DBirmingham City 1-1 West Bromwich Albion11/03/2006

LBirmingham City 0-2 Tottenham18/03/2006

LBirmingham City 0-7 Liverpool21/03/2006

Running streaks

	Home	Total
Winning streak	8	4
Unbeaten streak	17	4
Drawless streak	8	13
Scoring streak	11	4
Conceding streak	0	1
Invincibility streak	1	0

Running streaks

	Away	Total
Loosing streak	1	2
Winless streak	1	4
Drawless streak	3	2
Goalless streak	1	2
Conceding streak	1	4

Statistical comparison of the season

Rankings

3	General ranking (Competition total)	18
8	General ranking (Home / Away)	17
12	FBDB index ranking (Worldwide)	177
4	FBDB index ranking (National)	17

Ranking evolution during the season

Results

29	Number of games (Competition total)	29
13	Number of games (Home / Away)	14
19	Victories (Competition total)	6
9	Victories (Home / Away)	2
6	Draws (Competition total)	6
3	Draws (Home / Away)	3
4	Losses (Competition total)	17
1	Losses (Home / Away)	9

Goals

58	Goals scored (Competition total)	23
27	Goals scored (Home / Away)	7
29	Goals conceded (Competition total)	41
8	Goals conceded (Home / Away)	22
2	Goals scored per match average (Competition total)	0.79
2.08	Goals scored per match average (Home / Away)	0.5
1	Conceced goals per match average (Competition total)	1.41
0.62	Conceced goals per match average (Home / Away)	1.57

Betting aid

17	Number of matches with more than 2,5 goals (Competition total)	9
6	Number of matches with more than 2,5 goals (Home / Away)	3
12	Clean sheets (Competition total)	6
7	Clean sheets (Home / Away)	2
2	Matches without scoring (Competition total)	15
0	Matches without scoring (Home / Away)	9
17	The 2 teams score (Competition total)	9
6	The 2 teams score (Home / Away)	4
1-0 (3 times)	Most frequent score (Home / Away)	0-2 (4 times)

Bookings

47	Yellow cards (Competition total)	30
20	Yellow cards (Home / Away)	16
2	Red cards (Competition total)	6
0	Red cards (Home / Away)	4

Key players

Ruud van Nistelrooy	19 goals	Team's best scorer (Competition total)	4 goals	Emile Heskey
Ruud van Nistelrooy	6 goals	Team's best scorer (Home / Away)	3 goals	Jiri Jarosik
Ruud van Nistelrooy	2 penalties	Team's penalty best scorer (Competition total)	1 penalty	Mikael Forssell
Ruud van Nistelrooy	1 penalty	Team's penalty best scorer (Home / Away)		-
Cristiano Ronaldo	4 assists	Player with most assists (Competition total)	1 assist	David Dunn
Cristiano Ronaldo	2 assists	Player with most assists (Home / Away)		-
Cristiano Ronaldo	5 goals, 2 assists during the last 6 matches	The fittest player	1 goal during the last 2 matches	Mikael Forssell

Historical head to head

Home

45 matches

28 v

8 d

9 l

75 gf

36 ga

Away

47 matches

13 v

18 d

16 l

63 gf

69 ga

Total

92 matches

41 v

26 d

25 l

138 gf

105 ga

Historical head to head

Home

47 matches

16 v

18 d

13 l

69 gf

63 ga

Away

45 matches

9 v

8 d

28 l

36 gf

75 ga

Total

92 matches

25 v

26 d

41 l

105 gf

138 ga

Largest victory

Overall	6 - 2	February 24, 1969
Home	6 - 2	February 24, 1969

Largest victory

Overall	5 - 1	November 11, 1978
Away	2 - 0	October 14, 1961

Latest head to head

December 28, 2005 - Premier League 2005/2006

Birmingham City

2 - 2

Man United

December 20, 2005 - League Cup 2005/2006

Birmingham City

1 - 3

Man United

February 05, 2005 - Premier League 2004/2005

Man United

2 - 0

Birmingham City logo Birmingham City

October 16, 2004 - Premier League 2004/2005

Birmingham City

0 - 0

Man United

April 10, 2004 - Premier League 2003/2004

Birmingham City

1 - 2

Man United

Best historical scorers against Birmingham City

Dennis Viollet	6 goals	1956 - 1961
Lou Macari	6 goals	1973 - 1981
Bobby Charlton	6 goals	1957 - 1965
Denis Law	5 goals	1963 - 1969
Albert Quixall	4 goals	1959 - 1961
Joe Jordan	3 goals	1978 - 1981

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 18/08/1956. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Best historical scorers against Man United

Kevin Dillon	3 goals	1978 - 1983
Alan Buckley	2 goals	1978 - 1978
Kenneth Leek	2 goals	1962 - 1963
Denis Thwaites	2 goals	1964 - 1965
Alex Harley	2 goals	1963 - 1964
Trevor Francis	2 goals	1977 - 1978

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 18/08/1956. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Players with most games played vs Birmingham City

Bill Foulkes	18 matches	1956 - 1965
Martin Buchan	16 matches	1972 - 1982
Arthur Albiston	14 matches	1977 - 1986
Bobby Charlton	14 matches	1957 - 1973
Steve Coppell	14 matches	1975 - 1983
Lou Macari	13 matches	1973 - 1981

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 18/08/1956. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Players with most games played vs Man United

Trevor Smith	11 matches	1958 - 1964
Joe Gallagher	10 matches	1974 - 1981
Trevor Francis	10 matches	1972 - 1978
Johnny Schofield	9 matches	1958 - 1965
William Hennessey	9 matches	1961 - 1965
Malcolm Beard	8 matches	1961 - 1965

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 18/08/1956. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

They played in both sides

Steve Bruce

417 matches

12 matches

1987 - 1998

Nicky Butt

387 matches

23 matches

1992 - 2006

Dwight Yorke

152 matches

16 matches

1998 - 2005

Gerry Daly

96 matches

2 matches

1973 - 1985

Danny Wallace

71 matches

2 matches

1989 - 1994

Billy Garton

55 matches

5 matches

1984 - 1988

Total : 8 players

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 09/08/1969. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

They played in both sides

Jeffrey Wealands

8 matches

62 matches

1980 - 1983

Don Givens

9 matches

48 matches

1969 - 1981

Nicky Butt

387 matches

23 matches

1992 - 2006

Dwight Yorke

152 matches

16 matches

1998 - 2005

Steve Bruce

417 matches

12 matches

1987 - 1998

Billy Garton

55 matches

5 matches

1984 - 1988

Total : 8 players

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 09/08/1969. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Competition info

The other matches

March 25, 2006

Liverpool

3 1

Everton

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March 26, 2006

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March 27, 2006

Tottenham

2 1

WBA

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April 12, 2006

Portsmouth

1 1

Arsenal

Line-ups available

Post-match general ranking

		pts	m	v	d	l	GF	GA	diff
1	Chelsea	78	31	25	3	3	60	19	+41
+12	Manchester United	66	30	20	6	4	61	29	+32
-13	Liverpool	64	32	19	7	6	45	22	+23
4	Tottenham	52	30	14	10	6	43	28	+15
5	Blackburn	52	31	16	4	11	42	36	+6
6	Arsenal	50	30	15	5	10	48	23	+25
7	Bolton Wanderers	48	29	13	9	7	42	32	+10
8	Wigan	46	31	14	4	13	36	38	-2
9	West Ham	45	30	13	6	11	46	45	+1
10	Everton	43	31	13	4	14	29	41	-12
+211	Charlton	42	31	12	6	13	37	42	-5
-112	Manchester City	40	31	12	4	15	39	37	+2
-113	Newcastle United	39	31	11	6	14	31	38	-7
+214	Middlesbrough	37	30	10	7	13	43	52	-9
-115	Fulham	36	32	10	6	16	40	51	-11
-116	Aston Villa	35	31	8	11	12	34	41	-7
17	West Bromwich Albion	27	30	7	6	17	27	45	-18
18	Birmingham City	24	30	6	6	18	23	44	-21
19	Portsmouth	24	30	6	6	18	24	51	-27
20	Sunderland	10	31	2	4	25	19	55	-36

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Man United 3-0 Birmingham City - March 26, 2006 / Premier League 2005/2006

Man United

3 - 0

Birmingham City

Team line-ups

First 11

First 11

Substitutes

Substitutes

Changes in the starting players regarding the previous match

Changes in the starting players regarding the previous match

Manager

Ferguson vs Birmingham City

Ferguson vs Bruce

Manager

Bruce vs Man United

Bruce vs Ferguson

Referee

Videos

Comments

Key figures

General ranking

General ranking

Pre-match

Current form

Current form

Running streaks

Running streaks

Statistical comparison of the season

Rankings

Ranking evolution during the season

Results

Goals

Betting aid

Bookings

Key players

Historical head to head

Historical head to head

Largest victory

Largest victory

Latest head to head

Best historical scorers against Birmingham City

Best historical scorers against Man United

Players with most games played vs Birmingham City

Players with most games played vs Man United

They played in both sides

They played in both sides

Competition info

The other matches

Post-match general ranking