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  1. Geovanni wins derby for City

    Geovanni wins derby for City

    A fine first-half strike from Brazilian midfielder Geovanni gave Manchester City a win 1-0 win over Manchester United at Eastlands. More

  • Live Commentary

    Time:90'
    • Manchester City
    • Manchester United
    • 90+4' United are desperate, their pumping ball into teh box, but Dunne is a tower of strength, clearing everything thrown at him. It's all over!!! City have the three points!
    • 90+2' Giggs now wins United a corner in the second minute of stoppage time. Van der Sar is coming up, but Hamann heads away...
    • 90' John O'Shea now wins United a corner. Giggs swings it in, and Carlos Tevez misses a sitter of a header at the far post!!! Schmeichel missed it, and somehow Tevez failed to direct it inside the far post!!
    • 88' The nerves around Eastlands are turning to a feeling of hope as Dunne wins a free-kick inside his own half. City are looking good for the three points.
    • 86' Tevez strikes one from 25 yards, though it's a poor effort.
    • 84' United are pumping the ball forward hopefully, though without success. They don't loook the threat they were at the start of the half.
    • 83' Evra wins a free-kick wide on the left off Mpenza. Hargreaves swings it in...and Richards gets his head to it to clear.
    • 82' Hamann guilty of dwelling in possession on a City break and United have possession again. Eagles now charges into the area, only for Schmeichel to come out and stop him firmly in his tracks.
    • 80' Evra is livid after being denied a corner! THe ball came of Corluka last, though without the referee having seen it.
    • 78' Corluka strikes a shot from a loose ball first time from all of 30 yards, and sees it whistle narrowly over the crossbar.
    • 76' Carlos Tevez sweizes upon a loose ball, and slams a volley wide of the right hand post under pressure from Dunne.
    • 72' Johnson picks out a gap in the defence, to send Petrov through, but he's ruled offside. Now Eagles bears down on Schmeichel the other end, and the goalkeeper narrows the angle well before saving.
    • 67' Dunne is forced to slide in to clear another fine ball into the area, this time into Eagles.
    • 66' Geovanni draws a foul from Hargreaves on the edge of the United area. Clever play, dangerous position for the free-kick. Geovanni steps up...and Van der Sar makes a comfortable low save.
    • 64' Now City have a chance to break, it falls to Geovanni, but he takes a poor first touch and can't release Mpenza.
    • 63 City are still under huge pressure frmo the United attack. Scholes and Giggs are running the show at the moment, but they are still a goal down.
    • 60' Scholes spreads it wide to Giggs, he crosses for Tevez who gets a faint touch on it, and sends it just inches past the far post as Eagles arrives in late!!
    • 59' Giggs feeds it through to Tevez, he plays a perfect backheel for the onrushing Scholes, who blazes over the bar. To be fair, he was under pressure.
    • 57' Nani is sent in behind the defence again, he has three red shirts to aim for in the area, with only one City defender there, but his cross is an awful one! What a waste.
    • 56 Corluka booked for hauling down Tevez after being caught out of position.
    • 55' Hamann is booked for a trip on Giggs.
    • 54' Giggs is free down the left, plays a teasing ball in behind the defence, and Richards is there to clear with Both Tevez and Scholes threatening!
    • 51 City under heavy pressure at the start of the second half. Now Mpenza wins them a free-kick to give them some breathing space.
    • 49' United on the attack again as Scholes spreads it to Nani, he crosses, and Dunne makes the interception.
    • 47' An injection of pace from Nani forces Garrido to clear for a corner. It's swung in by Giggs, and Vidic smacks the crossbar after getting in ahead of Dunne!! It comes out to Scholes, and he volleys wide! City off the hook!
    • 46' Tevez and Scholes kick off the second half for United.
    • 45' Evra sends Giggs darting down the left wing, but again he was well marshalled, and the cross was blocked. There's half-time.
    • 43' United come forward again as Brown switches the play to Giggs on the left, he crosses low, and Dunne clears with Tevez again breathing down his neck.
    • 40' The young Dane now comes flying out of his goal to claim from the feet of Nani.
    • 40' Young Kasper is the most relieved man in the stadium after that.
    • 39' Giggs crosses low and hard, Schmeichel fumbles it...and Richards it forced to hack clear with Scholes waiting to pounce.
    • 38' The goal has certainly given City confidence. They're knocking the ball about comfortably to the "olés" of the crowd.
    • 35' City on the attack again, and Vidic is called upon to go flying into a block from Johnson's effort on the edge of the area. Now United come at City through Nani, and Richards is forced to hack clear from inside his own area.
    • 33' The City faithful are in full voice now!
    • 31 City have the lead, totally against the run of play. Elano fed Geovanni through the centre, nobody pressured him, and he punished United heavily. Fantastic right-foot strike.
    • 31 Geovanni tries one from 30 yards...and finds THE BOTTOM CORNER!!!
    • 30' Michael Johnson tries a speculative effort from 35 yards, though his effort is high, wide, and none too pretty.
    • 29' Scholes plays a neat exchange with Giggs on the edge of the area, though then tries to feed Tevez rather than take on the shot, and Garrido clears.
    • 26' Carrick releases Tevez in behind the City back line, but Richards' pace ensures he gets back to dispossess the Argentinian.
    • 24' Nani with a gorgeous through ball to Evra with the back of his heel, Evra bears down on Schmeichel, but badly slices his shot. Evra is down, and wants a penalty, though he won't get it.
    • 22' City are struggling to get the ball moving on the floor so far. United's pressure has so far ensured they have hardly even entered the final third.
    • 21 Elano in the wars again. Scholes clatters into him now.
    • 20' Another fine move for United sees Nani feed Scholes, and his cut-back earns City a corner. Giggs plays it short to Hargreaves, he crosses for Tevez, and Dunne is forced to hack clear with alarm bells ringing in the City defence.
    • 18' Hargreaves blocks off Elano in the middle of the pitch, and the Brazilian is down injured. Another worry for City.
    • 16' A coutner-attack initiated by Hargreaves ends with Schoels flocking it through neatly to Nani, he blasts a low shot toward the near post, but Schmeichel gets down well to save.
    • 15' City have offered precious little going forward so far. Richards tries to release Mpenza with a long, hopeful ball, but blasts it out of play.
    • 14' Brown penalised for scything down Petrov. He is given a stern talking to by referee Mark Clattenburg.
    • 12' Nani now takes on Corluka, though runs the ball out of play in doing so.
    • 11' Tevez releases Nani in behind the City defence, he crosses to the back post, though fails to pick out a red shirt. Nani has looked slightly off the pace in the opening few minutes.
    • 10' A misunderstanding between Nani and Scholes as the Portuguese slips a ball in behind the City defence as Scholes comes short.
    • 8' Emile Mpenza is on in place of Bojinov.
    • 7' Scholes tries to clip a ball over the top of the defence for Nani, but it runs straight through to Schmeichel.
    • 6' Bojinov is being carried off. His afternoon ends early. He landed awkwardly after jumping alongside Evra.
    • 4' Lovely move from Tevez and Scholes sees Nano bear down on Schmeichel, but the young 'keeper does well to make the save!! City were carved open there. Meanwhile, Bojinov is down injured.
    • 2' United on the attack early on, with Scholes looking to orchestrate proceedings.
    • 1' City get the first half underway.
    • 13:10 Manchester United team: Van der Sar, Brown, Ferdinand, Vidic, Evra, Hargreaves, Scholes, Carrick, Giggs, Nani, Tevez; Substitutes: Kuszczak, O'Shea, Silvestre, Eagles, Campbell;
    • 13:10 Manchester City team: Schmeichel, Garrido, Richards, Dunne, Corluka, Geovanni, Hamann, Johnson, Petrov, Bojinov, Elano; Substitutes: Hart, Ball, Onuoha, Mpenza, Bianchi;
    • 13:00 Welcome to eurosport.yahoo.com's live text commentary of the Manchester derby from Eastlands!

  • Team Stats

    Manchester City Stats Manchester United
    40% Possession 59%
    8 Shots 19
    2 Shots on target 3
    0 Saves 0
    0 Corners 11
    12 Fouls 8
    2 Offsides 5
    2 Yellow cards 2
    0 Red cards 0
    22 Tackles 22
    284 Accurate passes 463
    39 Bad passes 84

  • Player Stats

    G =
    Goals
    S =
    Shots
    SoT =
    Shot on Target
    F =
    Fouls
    FW =
    Fouls Won
    O =
    Offsides
    A =
    Assists
    AP =
    Accurate Passes
    BP =
    Bad Passes
    T =
    Tackles
    • Manchester City
      G S SoT F FW O A AP BP T
      19 Kasper Schmeichel 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 11 2 0
      22 Richard Dunne 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 29 1 3
      16 Vedran Corluka 0 1 0 1 2 0 0 24 2 2
      2 Micah Richards 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 24 7 4
      11 Blumer Elano 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 12 1 1
      21 Dietmar Hamann 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 49 2 3
      6 Michael Johnson 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 37 4 4
      24 Javier Garrido 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 20 7 1
      8 Marcio Geovanni 1 3 2 2 1 1 0 28 1 2
      15 Martin Petrov 0 1 0 0 3 1 0 25 8 1
      29 Valeri Bojinov 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0
      9 Emile Mpenza 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 12 0 0
      4 Nedum Onuoha 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
      3 Michael Ball 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 1 0
      25 Joe Hart 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
      10 Rolando Bianchi 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 8 3 1
    • Manchester United
      G S SoT F FW O A AP BP T
      1 Edwin Van der Sar 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 11 2 0
      5 Rio Ferdinand 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 50 1 0
      3 Patrice Evra 0 1 0 1 3 0 0 41 29 3
      6 Wes Brown 0 1 0 3 0 0 0 29 0 0
      15 Nemanja Vidic 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 44 2 1
      17 Luís Almeida da Cunha 0 4 2 2 0 1 0 22 3 3
      4 Owen Hargreaves 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 56 8 7
      18 Paul Scholes 0 3 0 1 0 0 0 79 13 1
      16 Michael Carrick 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 55 7 1
      11 Ryan Giggs 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 36 13 4
      32 Carlos Tevez 0 6 0 1 2 4 0 23 5 1
      29 Tomasz Kuszczak 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
      27 Mikael Silvestre 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
      22 John O'Shea 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 6 0 1
      39 Fraizer Campbell 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 4 0 0
      33 Chris Eagles 0 2 1 0 0 0 0 7 1 0

  • Summary

    • 90' John O'Shea now wins United a corner. Giggs swings it in, and Carlos Tevez misses a sitter of a header at the far post!!! Schmeichel missed it, and somehow Tevez failed to direct it inside the far post!!
    • 54' Giggs is free down the left, plays a teasing ball in behind the defence, and Richards is there to clear with Both Tevez and Scholes threatening!
    • 31 Geovanni tries one from 30 yards...and finds THE BOTTOM CORNER!!!
    • 24' Nani with a gorgeous through ball to Evra with the back of his heel, Evra bears down on Schmeichel, but badly slices his shot. Evra is down, and wants a penalty, though he won't get it.

Live Team Line-Up

  • Referee: Mark Clattenburg

  • Manchester City

    Manager: Sven-Göran Eriksson

    On the Field

    • Schmeichel
    • Corluka
    • Richards
    • Dunne
    • Garrido
    • Geovanni
    • Hamann
    • Johnson
    • Petrov
    • Elano
    • Bojinov

    Subs

    • Mpenza
    • Ball
    • Bianchi
    • Onuoha
    • Hart

    Injured

    • Isaksson

    Suspended

    None

  • Manchester United

    Manager: Alex Ferguson

    On the Field

    • van der Sar
    • Brown
    • Ferdinand
    • Vidic
    • Evra
    • Carrick
    • Scholes
    • Hargreaves
    • Nani
    • Tevez
    • Giggs

    Subs

    • Silvestre
    • Kuszczak
    • Eagles
    • Campbell

    Injured

    • Neville
    • Saha
    • Rooney
    • Park
    • Foster

    Suspended

    • Ronaldo