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Newcastle United 0-2 Manchester City - January 02, 2008 / Premier League 2007/2008

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Premier League 2007/2008 - Round 21

St. James Park - Newcastle - England

January 02, 2008

50 956

0 - 2

Manchester City

38'

Elano (left foot)

76'

Gelson Fernandes (right foot)

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38' - Goal Elano

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46' - Substitution Obafemi Martinsis substituted by Michael Owen46

63' - Substitution Damien Duffis substituted by José Enrique63

70' - Substitution Elanois substituted by Kelvin Etuhu

72' - Substitution Abdoulaye Fayeis substituted by Belözoglu Emre72

75' - Substitution Stephen Irelandis substituted by Gelson Fernandes

76' - Goal Gelson Fernandes

88' - Substitution Darius Vassellis substituted by Rolando Bianchi

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Team line-ups Key figures Pre-match Competition info

Newcastle United

0 - 2

Manchester City

Newcastle United Manchester City

Team line-ups

Newcastle United

1 Given

Shay Given

Republic of Ireland

B.date20/04/1976

Age31 years

H1m85

positionGoalkeeper

25 Faye72

Abdoulaye Faye

Senegal

B.date26/02/1978

Age29 years

H1m87

positionCentral defender

6 Cláudio Caçapa

Cláudio Caçapa

Brazil

B.date29/05/1976

Age31 years

H1m84

positionLeft central defender

27 Taylor

Steven Taylor

England

B.date23/01/1986

Age21 years

H1m86

positionRight central defender

21 Beye

Habib Beye

Senegal

B.date19/10/1977

Age30 years

H1m82

positionRight full-back

11 Duff63

Damien Duff

Republic of Ireland

B.date02/03/1979

Age28 years

H1m75

positionMidfield

22 Butt

Nicky Butt

England

B.date21/01/1975

Age32 years

H1m78

positionMidfield

14 N'Zogbia

Charles N'Zogbia

France

B.date28/05/1986

Age21 years

H1m70

positionLeft Midfielder

16 Milner

James Milner

England

B.date04/01/1986

Age21 years

H1m76

positionRight Offensive Midfielder

9 Martins46

Obafemi Martins

Nigeria

B.date28/10/1984

Age23 years

H1m70

positionStriker

36 Viduka

Mark Viduka

Australia

B.date09/10/1975

Age32 years

H1m88

positionStriker

First 11				Age	Match num	Note
1	G	Shay Given		31	428	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
25	D	Abdoulaye Faye	72	29	12	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
6	D	Cláudio Caçapa		31	14	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
27	D	Steven Taylor		21	102	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
21	D	Habib Beye		30	17	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
11	M	Damien Duff	63	28	37	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
22	M	Nicky Butt		32	96	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
14	M	Charles N'Zogbia		21	118	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
16	M	James Milner		21	123	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
9	F	Obafemi Martins	46	23	69	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
36	F	Mark Viduka		32	16	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Average age

27.2 years

Average number of matches played for the team

Manchester City

Hart

Joe Hart

England

B.date19/04/1987

Age20 years

H1m91

positionGoalkeeper

Dunne

Richard Dunne

Republic of Ireland

B.date21/09/1979

Age28 years

H1m88

positionRight central defender

Onuoha

Nedum Onuoha

England

B.date12/11/1986

Age21 years

H1m88

positionRight central defender

Corluka

Vedran Corluka

Croatia

B.date05/02/1986

Age21 years

H1m92

positionRight full-back

Richards

Micah Richards

England

B.date24/06/1988

Age19 years

H1m80

positionRight full-back

Ball

Michael Ball

England

B.date02/10/1979

Age28 years

H1m85

positionLeft full-back

Hamann

Dietmar Hamann

Germany

B.date27/08/1973

Age34 years

H1m89

positionDefensive Midfielder

Ireland75

Stephen Ireland

Republic of Ireland

B.date22/08/1986

Age21 years

H1m75

positionCentre Midfield

Elano3870

Elano

Brazil

B.date14/06/1981

Age26 years

H1m74

positionOffensive Midfielder

Petrov

Martin Petrov

Bulgaria

B.date15/01/1979

Age28 years

H1m80

positionLeft Offensive Midfielder

Vassell88

Darius Vassell

England

B.date13/06/1980

Age27 years

H1m75

positionStriker

			Age	Match num	Note
G	Joe Hart		20	14	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Richard Dunne		28	284	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Nedum Onuoha		21	60	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Vedran Corluka		21	24	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Micah Richards		19	72	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Michael Ball		28	32	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Dietmar Hamann		34	40	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Stephen Ireland	75	21	77	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Elano	3870	26	20	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Martin Petrov		28	22	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Darius Vassell	88	27	89	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Average age

24.8 years

Average number of matches played for the team

Substitutes				Age	Match num	Note
3	D	José Enrique	63	21	12	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
5	M	Belözoglu Emre	72	27	77	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
10	F	Michael Owen	46	28	27	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

			Age	Match num	Note
M	Kelvin Etuhu	70	19	6	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Gelson Fernandes	7675	21	13	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Rolando Bianchi	88	24	20	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Changes in the starting players regarding the previous match

Mark Viduka

Alan Smith

OUT

Changes in the starting players regarding the previous match

No changes regarding the previous match for the starting players

Manager

Age

Match num

Sam Allardyce

Success rate in this team:

35 %

Success rate since the beginning of his career:

41 %

Allardyce vs Manchester City

5 victories

2 draws

10 losses

Latest figure on January 02, 2008

Allardyce vs Eriksson

0 victory

0 draw

2 losses

Latest figure on January 02, 2008

Manager

Age

Match num

Sven-Göran Eriksson

Hans Backe

Success rate in this team:

56 %

Success rate since the beginning of his career:

60 %

Eriksson vs Newcastle United

2 victories

0 draw

0 loss

Latest figure on January 02, 2008

Eriksson vs Allardyce

2 victories

0 draw

0 loss

Latest figure on January 02, 2008

Referee

Martin Atkinson

18 victories	12 draws	20 losses	Newcastle United50 matches	General total	Manchester City57 matches	33 victories	11 draws	13 losses
1 victory	1 draw	2 losses	Newcastle United4 matches	Season total	Manchester City2 matches	2 victories	0 draw	0 loss
Latest figure on April 03, 2022					Latest figure on May 11, 2022

Videos

July 14, 2023

Comments

Key figures

Newcastle United keeps its 3 consecutive matches without a draw running (since 26/12/2007). The last time this streak has been beaten, it was during the 29/08/2007-03/11/2007 time period (10 matches).

Newcastle United keeps its 3 consecutive losses running (since 26/12/2007).

It's the first time Gelson Fernandes scores 1 goal in his professional career with Manchester City

Read the next 10 key stats

General ranking

9	Blackburn	33 pts	21 rd
10	West Ham	29 pts	20 rd
11	Newcastle United	26 pts	21 rd
12	Tottenham	24 pts	21 rd
13	Reading	22 pts	21 rd

General ranking

	2	Manchester United	48 pts	21 rd
	3	Chelsea	44 pts	21 rd
+3	4	Manchester City	39 pts	21 rd
-1	5	Liverpool	38 pts	20 rd
-1	6	Everton	36 pts	21 rd

Pre-match

Current form

Home

VNewcastle United 3-1 Tottenham22/10/2007

LNewcastle United 1-4 Portsmouth03/11/2007

LNewcastle United 0-3 Liverpool24/11/2007

DNewcastle United 1-1 Arsenal05/12/2007

VNewcastle United 2-1 Birmingham City08/12/2007

DNewcastle United 2-2 Derby County23/12/2007

Overall

DNewcastle United 1-1 Arsenal05/12/2007

VNewcastle United 2-1 Birmingham City08/12/2007

VFulham 0-1 Newcastle United15/12/2007

DNewcastle United 2-2 Derby County23/12/2007

LWigan 1-0 Newcastle United26/12/2007

LChelsea 2-1 Newcastle United29/12/2007

Current form

Away

LChelsea 6-0 Manchester City27/10/2007

VBolton Wanderers 0-1 Manchester City31/10/2007

DPortsmouth 0-0 Manchester City11/11/2007

DWigan 1-1 Manchester City01/12/2007

LTottenham 2-1 Manchester City09/12/2007

DAston Villa 1-1 Manchester City22/12/2007

Overall

LTottenham 2-1 Manchester City09/12/2007

VManchester City 4-2 Bolton Wanderers15/12/2007

LManchester City 0-2 Tottenham18/12/2007

DAston Villa 1-1 Manchester City22/12/2007

DManchester City 2-2 Blackburn27/12/2007

DManchester City 0-0 Liverpool30/12/2007

Running streaks

	Home	Total
Drawing streak	1	0
Loosing streak	0	2
Unbeaten streak	3	0
Winless streak	1	3
Drawless streak	0	2
Scoring streak	3	1
Conceding streak	8	3

Running streaks

	Away	Total
Drawing streak	1	3
Unbeaten streak	1	3
Winless streak	4	4
Scoring streak	3	0
Goalless streak	0	1
Conceding streak	3	0
Invincibility streak	0	1

Statistical comparison of the season

Rankings

11	General ranking (Competition total)	7
8	General ranking (Home / Away)	13
112	FBDB index ranking (Worldwide)	54
13	FBDB index ranking (National)	9

Ranking evolution during the season

Results

20	Number of games (Competition total)	20
10	Number of games (Home / Away)	9
7	Victories (Competition total)	10
5	Victories (Home / Away)	1
5	Draws (Competition total)	6
3	Draws (Home / Away)	4
8	Losses (Competition total)	4
2	Losses (Home / Away)	4

Goals

27	Goals scored (Competition total)	27
16	Goals scored (Home / Away)	8
31	Goals conceded (Competition total)	22
15	Goals conceded (Home / Away)	15
1.35	Goals scored per match average (Competition total)	1.35
1.6	Goals scored per match average (Home / Away)	0.89
1.55	Conceced goals per match average (Competition total)	1.1
1.5	Conceced goals per match average (Home / Away)	1.67

Betting aid

13	Number of matches with more than 2,5 goals (Competition total)	8
7	Number of matches with more than 2,5 goals (Home / Away)	3
3	Clean sheets (Competition total)	8
2	Clean sheets (Home / Away)	2
4	Matches without scoring (Competition total)	5
2	Matches without scoring (Home / Away)	4
14	The 2 teams score (Competition total)	9
7	The 2 teams score (Home / Away)	4
3-1 (2 times)	Most frequent score (Home / Away)	0-1 (2 times)

Bookings

37	Yellow cards (Competition total)	31
18	Yellow cards (Home / Away)	20
0	Red cards (Competition total)	2
0	Red cards (Home / Away)	2

Key players

Obafemi Martins	6 goals	Team's best scorer (Competition total)	4 goals	Martin Petrov
Mark Viduka	4 goals	Team's best scorer (Home / Away)	3 goals	Rolando Bianchi
Joey Barton	1 penalty	Team's penalty best scorer (Competition total)		-
Obafemi Martins	1 penalty	Team's penalty best scorer (Home / Away)		-
Nicky Butt	1 goal during the last match	The fittest player	2 goals during the last 4 matches	Darius Vassell

Historical head to head

Home

78 matches

50 v

16 d

12 l

151 gf

74 ga

Away

76 matches

18 v

20 d

38 l

83 gf

135 ga

Neutral ground

3 matches

1 v

1 d

1 l

5 gf

4 ga

Total

157 matches

69 v

37 d

51 l

239 gf

213 ga

Historical head to head

Home

76 matches

38 v

20 d

18 l

135 gf

83 ga

Away

78 matches

12 v

16 d

50 l

74 gf

151 ga

Neutral ground

3 matches

1 v

1 d

1 l

4 gf

5 ga

Total

157 matches

51 v

37 d

69 l

213 gf

239 ga

Largest victory

Overall	5 - 0	October 29, 1983
Home	5 - 0	October 29, 1983

Largest victory

Overall	4 - 0	December 26, 1977
Away	3 - 0	October 20, 1956

Latest head to head

September 29, 2007 - Premier League 2007/2008

Manchester City

3 - 1

Newcastle United logo Newcastle United

March 31, 2007 - Premier League 2006/2007

Newcastle United

0 - 1

Manchester City logo Manchester City

November 11, 2006 - Premier League 2006/2007

Manchester City

0 - 0

Newcastle United logo Newcastle United

February 01, 2006 - Premier League 2005/2006

Manchester City

3 - 0

Newcastle United logo Newcastle United

September 24, 2005 - Premier League 2005/2006

Newcastle United

1 - 0

Manchester City logo Manchester City

Best historical scorers against Manchester City

Alan Shearer	6 goals	2000 - 2005
Malcolm Macdonald	6 goals	1971 - 1976
Peter Beardsley	5 goals	1983 - 1995
Len White	5 goals	1958 - 1961
Bryan Robson	4 goals	1966 - 1969
Ivor Allchurch	2 goals	1959 - 1961

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 07/05/1955. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Best historical scorers against Newcastle United

Dennis Tueart	9 goals	1975 - 1977
Neil Young	6 goals	1966 - 1969
Joe Hayes	5 goals	1959 - 1961
Francis Lee	5 goals	1968 - 1974
Uwe Rösler	4 goals	1994 - 1996
William McAdams	3 goals	1959 - 1959

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 07/05/1955. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Players with most games played vs Manchester City

Frank Clark	17 matches	1966 - 1974
Peter Beardsley	14 matches	1983 - 1996
Shay Given	13 matches	2000 - 2007
Willie McFaul	13 matches	1968 - 1975
Bobby Moncur	13 matches	1966 - 1974
Irving Nattrass	12 matches	1971 - 1978

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 07/05/1955. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Players with most games played vs Newcastle United

Michael Doyle	20 matches	1967 - 1978
Alan Oakes	19 matches	1960 - 1976
Colin Bell	19 matches	1966 - 1977
Mike Summerbee	16 matches	1966 - 1975
Tommy Booth	15 matches	1968 - 1978
Willie Donachie	14 matches	1971 - 1978

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 07/05/1955. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

They played in both sides

Wyn Davies

183 matches

48 matches

1966 - 1972

Steve Howey

161 matches

103 matches

1991 - 2003

Jeff Clarke

133 matches

13 matches

1974 - 1987

Andy Cole

73 matches

23 matches

1993 - 2006

Laurent Charvet

53 matches

24 matches

1998 - 2001

Stuart Pearce

52 matches

43 matches

1997 - 2002

Total : 20 players

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 07/05/1955. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

They played in both sides

Sylvain Distin

35 matches

206 matches

2001 - 2007

Ray Ranson

19 matches

193 matches

1978 - 1993

Joey Barton

10 matches

153 matches

2003 - 2007

George Heslop

15 matches

146 matches

1959 - 1971

Antoine Sibierski

39 matches

107 matches

2003 - 2007

George Hannah

2 matches

105 matches

1955 - 1963

Total : 20 players

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 07/05/1955. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Competition info

The other matches

January 01, 2008

Arsenal

2 0

West Ham

Video availableLine-ups available

Aston Villa

2 1

Tottenham

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Line-ups available

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Middlesbrough

0 2

Everton

Video availableLine-ups available

Reading

0 2

Portsmouth

Line-ups available

January 02, 2008

Blackburn

1 0

Sunderland

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Line-ups available

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Post-match general ranking

		pts	m	v	d	l	GF	GA	diff
1	Arsenal	50	21	15	5	1	42	16	+26
2	Manchester United	48	21	15	3	3	38	11	+27
3	Chelsea	44	21	13	5	3	33	16	+17
+34	Manchester City	39	21	11	6	4	29	22	+7
-15	Liverpool	38	20	10	8	2	34	13	+21
-16	Everton	36	21	11	3	7	37	22	+15
-17	Aston Villa	36	21	10	6	5	37	27	+10
8	Portsmouth	34	21	9	7	5	31	20	+11
9	Blackburn	33	21	9	6	6	28	28	0
10	West Ham	29	20	8	5	7	25	19	+6
11	Newcastle United	26	21	7	5	9	27	33	-6
12	Tottenham	24	21	6	6	9	42	38	+4
13	Reading	22	21	6	4	11	29	44	-15
+214	Bolton Wanderers	20	21	5	5	11	23	32	-9
-115	Middlesbrough	20	21	5	5	11	18	35	-17
-116	Birmingham City	19	21	5	4	12	22	32	-10
+117	Wigan	17	21	4	5	12	21	37	-16
-118	Sunderland	17	21	4	5	12	20	40	-20
19	Fulham	15	21	2	9	10	22	37	-15
20	Derby County	7	21	1	4	16	10	46	-36

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Newcastle United 0-2 Manchester City - January 02, 2008 / Premier League 2007/2008

Newcastle United

0 - 2

Manchester 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

Allardyce vs Manchester City

Allardyce vs Eriksson

Manager

Eriksson vs Newcastle United

Eriksson vs Allardyce

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 Manchester City

Best historical scorers against Newcastle United

Players with most games played vs Manchester City

Players with most games played vs Newcastle United

They played in both sides

They played in both sides

Competition info

The other matches

Post-match general ranking