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Sunday May 11, 2008 Finished Riverside Stadium

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Middlesbrough

  • Downing 15’ (pen.), 58’
  • Alves 37’, 60’, 90’
  • Johnson 70’
  • Rochemback 78’
  • Aliadière 83’

Manchester City

  • Elano 87’
  1. Sven ends with eight-goal drubbing

    Sven ends with eight-goal drubbing

    Sven Goran Eriksson's probable final match in charge of Manchester City ended with an embarrassing 8-1 defeat at the hands of Middlesbrough. More

  • Live Commentary

    Time:90'
    • Middlesbrough
    • Manchester City
    • 90 Full time: Boro ruthlessly expose a City side devoid of committment...not a great way to send Sven on his way!
    • 90 GOAL! TRULY EMBARRASSING FOR CITY! Alves gets his hat-trick! Almost the last kick of the match, and the Brazilian fires in low from eight yards out!
    • 87 GOAL! CITY GET ONE BACK! Substitute Elano, City's top scorer this season, fires a left-foot shot into the top corner from the edge of the box! Great strike!
    • 83 GOAL! EMBARRASSMENT FOR SVEN! Jeremie Aliadiere hits a very good left footed shot to the lower left corner after being teed-up by Rochemback!
    • 78 GOAL! THE JOY OF SIX! Rochemback fires in a long-range effort into the top-left corner! Great strike!
    • 75 Petrov is replaced by Elano for Man City...
    • 72 GOAL! ADAM JOHNSON EXTENDS THE ROUT! The youngster fires in a low shot from 25 yards that skids past Iskasson! City have been shambolic, and Boro are reaping the benefits!
    • 68 All Boro at the moment...Downing fires a left-foot shot over the bar from just inside the box...
    • 60 GOAL! THIS IS A ROUT! Alves fires home Arca's cross to net Boro's fourth! This isn't going to impress City's Thai owner.
    • 58 GOAL! ALL OVER NOW! Downing volley's home Boateng's cross...Boro are cruising...really shoddy display from City...
    • 55 Rochemback's free-kick eventually finds its way through to Wheater at the back post...but his effort is blocked in the six-yard box...
    • 51 Bit of a slow start to the second half from both sides...no sign that City are going to give their manager a winning send-off...
    • 48 Rochemback tests Isaksson with an ambitious effort from out on the left...good save from the tall Swede...
    • 46 The second half is underway...
    • 45 HALF-TIME: Nothing from City...it's been all Boro, who have taken advantage of a very slack performance from the visitors...
    • 43 Little sign of City as an attacking force in this match...very little from the visitors.
    • 40 Alves works Isaksson with another effort from just inside the box...the Swede is down well to save this one...
    • 36 GOAL! Alves fires Boro two-up! Great finish, fired into the corner from the edge of the box...assist by Rochemback...
    • 31 Isaksson is forced into his first save of the match...he gets down well to keep out Tuncay's effort at the near post
    • 28 Arca fires a shot over the bar from the edge of the box...Isaksson was able to watch that one in comfort...
    • 26 Luke Young is the latest Boro player in the book, for back-chatting to the referee
    • 24 Pogatetz is shown the yellow card for a foul in midfield
    • 20 City win a free-kick on the edge of the box...Petrov steps up...BUT CURLS IT WIDE! Good effort from the Bulgarian.
    • 17 That red card might yet have an impact on City's bid to get into Europe via the Fair Play league...
    • 15 UP STEPS DOWNING! GOAL! STRAIGHT DOWN THE MIDDLE!
    • 14 RED CARD! Dunne brings down Tuncay! PENALTY! AND DUNNE IS OFF!
    • 12 City have been forced into an early change...Benjani has gone off with an injury, replaced by Castillo...
    • 11 Downing curls in the first corner of the match...cleared at the near post...
    • 7 Richard Dunne blocks Boateng's shot from just inside the box...good defending from the City skipper...
    • 6 Remember, City will win the fair play league and therefore a place in the UEFA Cup if they can control themselves this afternoon...some early signs that they are willing to get stuck in, though...
    • 3 Benjani fires in the first shot of the afternoon...wide...Schwarzer looked to have that one covered.
    • 1 OFF WE GO!
    • - Hi there; welcome to our coverage of Manchester City's end of season trip to the Riverside...

  • Team Stats

    Middlesbrough Stats Manchester City
    51% Possession 48%
    20 Shots 8
    13 Shots on target 2
    0 Saves 4
    7 Corners 0
    9 Fouls 11
    5 Offsides 2
    2 Yellow cards 1
    0 Red cards 1
    12 Tackles 12
    357 Accurate passes 319
    57 Bad passes 35

  • 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
    • Middlesbrough
      G S SoT F FW O A AP BP T
      1 Mark Schwarzer 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 1 0
      31 David Wheater 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 34 6 3
      5 Chris Riggott 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 32 0 1
      2 Luke Young 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 33 0 0
      6 Emanuel Pogatetz 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 35 7 0
      10 Fábio Rochemback 1 2 2 2 1 0 2 63 13 1
      3 Julio Arca 0 2 0 1 0 0 1 15 6 0
      7 George Boateng 0 3 1 1 1 0 0 42 6 5
      19 Stewart Downing 2 3 2 1 2 2 1 24 6 1
      12 Afonso Alves 3 4 4 2 0 1 0 31 6 1
      17 Tuncay Sanli 0 2 1 2 3 0 0 14 2 0
      28 Adam Johnson 1 1 1 0 1 0 0 17 3 0
      21 Ross Turnbull 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
      11 Jeremie Aliadiere 1 1 1 0 0 1 1 6 1 0
      33 Andrew Taylor 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
      29 Anthony McMahon 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 7 0 0
    • Manchester City
      G S SoT F FW O A AP BP T
      1 Andreas Isaksson 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 13 2 0
      22 Richard Dunne 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 10 0 0
      17 Sun Jihai 0 0 0 3 1 0 0 34 0 1
      3 Michael Ball 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 37 4 2
      16 Vedran Corluka 0 0 0 1 2 0 0 25 2 2
      24 Javier Garrido 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 28 6 2
      28 Gelson Fernandes 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 33 4 2
      7 Stephen Ireland 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 37 5 1
      15 Martin Petrov 0 1 0 0 2 0 0 26 6 1
      27 Benjamin Mwaruwari 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0
      12 Darius Vassell 0 2 0 0 2 0 0 18 3 0
      21 Dietmar Hamann 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 15 1 0
      20 Felipe Caicedo 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
      11 Blumer Elano 1 2 1 0 0 0 0 14 1 1
      30 Nery Castillo 0 1 0 1 1 1 0 28 1 0
      25 Joe Hart 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

  • Summary

    • 90 GOAL! TRULY EMBARRASSING FOR CITY! Alves gets his hat-trick! Almost the last kick of the match, and the Brazilian fires in low from eight yards out!
    • 87 GOAL! CITY GET ONE BACK! Substitute Elano, City's top scorer this season, fires a left-foot shot into the top corner from the edge of the box! Great strike!
    • 83 GOAL! EMBARRASSMENT FOR SVEN! Jeremie Aliadiere hits a very good left footed shot to the lower left corner after being teed-up by Rochemback!
    • 78 GOAL! THE JOY OF SIX! Rochemback fires in a long-range effort into the top-left corner! Great strike!
    • 72 GOAL! ADAM JOHNSON EXTENDS THE ROUT! The youngster fires in a low shot from 25 yards that skids past Iskasson! City have been shambolic, and Boro are reaping the benefits!
    • 60 GOAL! THIS IS A ROUT! Alves fires home Arca's cross to net Boro's fourth! This isn't going to impress City's Thai owner.
    • 58 GOAL! ALL OVER NOW! Downing volley's home Boateng's cross...Boro are cruising...really shoddy display from City...
    • 36 GOAL! Alves fires Boro two-up! Great finish, fired into the corner from the edge of the box...assist by Rochemback...
    • 20 City win a free-kick on the edge of the box...Petrov steps up...BUT CURLS IT WIDE! Good effort from the Bulgarian.
    • 15 UP STEPS DOWNING! GOAL! STRAIGHT DOWN THE MIDDLE!
    • 14 RED CARD! Dunne brings down Tuncay! PENALTY! AND DUNNE IS OFF!

Live Team Line-Up

  • Referee: Phil Dowd

  • Middlesbrough

    Manager: Gareth Southgate

    Captain: David Wheater

    On the Field

    • Schwarzer
    • Young
    • Wheater
    • Riggott
    • Pogatetz
    • Boateng
    • Rochemback Goal
    • Arca
    • Downing Goal
    • Tuncay
    • Alves Goals×3

    Subs

    • Aliadière Goal
    • Turnbull
    • McMahon
    • Johnson Goal
    • Taylor

    Injured

    • O'Neil
    • Mido
    • Huth

    Suspended

    None

  • Manchester City

    Manager: Sven-Göran Eriksson

    Captain: Richard Dunne

    On the Field

    • Isaksson
    • Sun
    • Dunne
    • Corluka
    • Ball
    • Ireland
    • Petrov
    • Gelson
    • Garrido
    • Benjani Substitution Out (12′)
    • Vassell

    Subs

    • Hamann
    • Castillo Substitution In12′
    • Elano Goal
    • Hart
    • Felipe Caicedo

    Injured

    • Bojinov
    • Onuoha
    • Richards

    Suspended

    None