Sunday November 21, 2010 Day 14 Finished Craven Cottage

Fulham 1 - 4 Manchester City

  • Gera 70’
  • Tévez 6’, 56’
  • Zabaleta 32’
  • Touré 35’

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  1. Man City ease past Fulham

    Man City ease past Fulham

    Manchester City moved back into the top four of the Premier League with a comfortable 4-1 win over Fulham at Craven Cottage. More

  • Live Commentary

    Time:90'
    • Fulham
    • Manchester City
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    • 90+3' The final whistle goes, and Mark Hughes's former employers have comfortably beaten his current ones.
    • 90+1' Gera goes down clutching his face after colliding with De Jong inside the City box. The referee wisely waves play on.
    • 90' Three minutes of added time are signalled.
    • 89' Man City substitution: James Milner replaces Silva.
    • 87' Zabaleta shoulder barges Johnson off the ball wide on the left. The referee ignores appeals for a free-kick.
    • 86' Zabaleta stops Dempsey from weaving his way into the City box from the left.
    • 85' It will be Gera to strike... a poor effort goes high and wide.
    • 83' Davies is brought down by De Jong as he turns away from goal. Fulham have a free-kick in a promising position. Salcido will fancy a strike from here...
    • 82' Man City substitution: Patrick Vieira replaces Barry.
    • 81' Johnson shows great drive to chase a long ball down to the trouchline, but Fulham soon lose the ball.
    • 80' Fulham are seeing plenty of the ball in this spell. Can they grab another goal to add some respectability to the scoreline?
    • 79' Johnson goes into the referee's book for a foul on Kompany.
    • 78' Man City substitution: There will be no hat-trick tonight for Tevez. He is replaced by Adam Johnson.
    • 77' Hart has to put a Fulham free-kick behind for a corner. The set piece is cleared and Kolarov gambols forward before being shoved over on the halfway line.
    • 76' Zabaleta is booked for a challenge on Kamara that is almost a carbin copy of Hangeland's on Jo moments earlier. That booking means the Argentine picks up a suspension.
    • 75' Barry is set to be replaced in a moment for City.
    • 74' It looks like Jo will be able to continue..
    • 73' Jo is sent tumbling after a a hard challenge from Hangeland. The Brazilian looks in some pain as he receives treatment on the pitch.
    • 71' Hopefully that will go down as Gera's goal. He has had some impact since coming on at the break, but in all likelihood it will be given to Dempsey.
    • 70' GOAL!! Fulham have pulled one back! A corner is headed away by Jo but only as far as Gera. The Hungarian strikes and, just as with Tevez's second goal, the ball clips off the boot of Dempsey and over Hart into the net!
    • 69' Baird tries to play the through ball into the box, but there is not a team-mate who reads it. Kamara is played in down the elft channel. The low cross comes in for Johnson, who can only steer it wide of the near post!
    • 68' Jo loses the ball to Salcido, but City soon have it back again.
    • 67' Fulham have plenty ofrward for the corner, but it ends up back in the arms of Hart.
    • 66' Johnson is having to come out wide a lot more to see any of the ball. His cross is blocked by Kolarov for a corner.
    • 64' After a good start to the half from Fulham, it's all City again now. That fourth goal has really knocked the wind out of the Cottagers' sails.
    • 63' Fulham substitution: Diomansy Kamara replaces Etuhu.
    • 62' No Manchester City player has ever scored a Premier League hat-trick away from home. Tevez has scored two Premier League hat-tricks in his career, both in 2010, but he has never scored a hat-trick in a PL away match. No one has scored three PL hat-tricks in 2010. Can Tevez buck the trend? (Infostrada)
    • 61' Dempsey gifts the ball to Tevez. The striker knocks the ball past Hangeland and leaves him for dead, but Murphy steams across to make a solid tackle! Great show from both captains there.
    • 60' Kompany is well positioned to snuff out a Fulham attack as Gera bounds forward.
    • 59' Kolarov checks on to his left foot and curls in a shot from a wide angle that skims over the bar! Not sure Schwarzer would have made it had it been a couple of inches lower.
    • 58' Kolarov swings in a free-kick from near the byline. Headed away at the near post by Dempsey.
    • 57' Tevez's ninth league goal of the season makes him the outright top-scorer, moving above Adny Carroll and Johan Elmander.
    • 56' GOAL!! Etuhu's clearance from the corner is poor and Zabaleta fires in a low strike. Tevez is standing in front of Schawrzer and the ball defelcts off him and loops over everyone and into the net! Well, they all count!
    • 55' Zabaleta plays Tevez clean through... he's one-on-one with Schwarzer... saved by the keeper! Tevez tried to toe-poke the ball through the keeper's legs.
    • 55' Dempsey lifts a ball into the box for Gera to attack, but Hart is alert to the danger and plucks the ball out of the air.
    • 54' After seven minutes of the second half, Joe Hart has now not conceded a goal for six hours and 55 minutes of Premier League football, the longest run without conceding by a goalkeeper this season, breaking Petr Cech's record of six hours and 54 minutes set in August and September. (Infostrada)
    • 53' Good work from Dempsey on the edge of the box. He has his effort blocked but the crowd are lifted. Gera leaps at the far post and Hart saves the header, but the whistle had already gone for the Hungarian fouling his marker.
    • 52' Dickson Etuhu has had a yellow card coming his way since the kick-off, and he finally goes into Lee Mason's book for a late tackle on De Jong.
    • 50' Dempsey has a shot from way out, but it flies harmlessly wide of Hart's goal.
    • 49' Davies battles his way past two City players but loses out as he tries to go past a third. A buoyant start to the half from the home side. Mark Hughes must have had a few choice words for his players at half-time!
    • 48' De Jong brings down Gera. The Hungarian is already making his presence felt. Johnson gets down the right flank but Hart is down to collect the cross before Gera can reach it.
    • 47' The corner is met by Hughes at the far post, but once again the Northern Ireland defender heads over the bar.
    • 46' The second half is underway! Salcido tries to bend a cross round Silva, but will have to make do with a corner.
    • HT Fulham substitution: Zoltan Gera replaces Duff.
    • 45+3' Indeed it is, and City go into the break three goals to the good. The watching Maradona must be impressed.
    • 45+2' Kompany shoves Dempsey in the back. The free-kick is taken quickly and Davies wins a corner. The set piece is dealt with by City and that should be that.
    • 45+1' Duff goes slaloming through the midfield before he is brought down in the centre circle by De Jong.
    • 45' Two minutes of added time are announced by the fourth official.
    • 44' Davies's run is picked out by a canny free-kick from deep, but the Welshman can't get sufficient power on his glancing header to trouble Joe Hart.
    • 43' Tevez is hounded by two white shirts but still manages to play the ball. Hughes brings down Silva. City play the free-kick short and continue knocking the ball around amongst themselves.
    • 42' Kolarov fires in a dangerous low ball across the six-yard box, but their is no one there to attack it.
    • 41' Etuhu shows his frustration witha late tackle. The referee has a word, but keeps his cards in his pocket.
    • 40' City have had 71% of the possession in the last 10 minutes. Apparently the build-up to Yaya Toure's goal involved 24 passes.
    • 39' This itme Hangeland heads clear. Etuhu gives the ball away to Silva in the midfield and City resume their hogging of the ball.
    • 38' Vincent Kompany rises to meet a corner. His header is steered behind for another from the other side.
    • 37' It looks as tohugh Fulham are going to remain one place above the relegation zone this weekend. Fortunately for them, they still have a 10-goal advantage on goal difference over 18th-placed Wigan!
    • 36' That's Yaya Toure's second goal for City, and his first since September.
    • 35' GOAL!! Now City have three, and it was all too easy. Salcido is drawn towards Tevez and the striker plays Yaya Toure into the space the Mexican has left, and Yaya fires a clinical low strike across Schwarzer and into the far bottom corner!
    • 34' The fans are now chanting "Boring boring City!", somewhat ironically!
    • 33' That's Zabaleta's first goal in almost two years. Two Argentina players have scored in front of the watching Diego Maradona.
    • 32' GOAL!! Silva cuts in from the left and his low cross runs just behind Tevez. The ball comes out to Zabaleta who lashes in a vicious swerving strike from 30 yards that gives Schwarzer no chance!
    • 31' Jo wins a corner for City. After what feels like an age Kolarov takes it. It goes all the way across to Yaya Toure and the move breaks down. City retain the ball though.
    • 30' Tevez drops deep and sprays the ball wide to Barry. Good keep-ball here from City.
    • 29' City are doing a good job of dictating the tempo at the moment. They are not allowing Fulham to get at them too much.
    • 28' With that opening goal, Tevez has become the Premier League's top scorer in the calendar year 2010. His 22 goals are one more than Didier Drogba's 21. (Infostrada)
    • 27' Tevez stays onside and charges down the left. He tussles with Salcido, who hits the deck, and the City skipper is penalised for a foul on the defender. A little harsh on Tevez - he seemed to outmuscle Salcido fair and square.
    • 26' Dempsey blocks Kolarov's corner at the near post. City come again and Silva cuts in from the right and strikes... the ball goes out for a throw-in!
    • 25' Salcido stays down after making a good sliding tackle on Zabaleta. The Mexican is up on his feet soon enough though. City have a corner.
    • 24' Kolarov does well to hook Dempsey's flick-on out of Johnson's path just in time.
    • 23' City can't make the most of the corner, and Schwarzer catches the ball with authority.
    • 22' Danny Murphy plays a canny ball square to Davies but the Welshman miscues his strike. Silva leads the City break and he plays it Kolarov. The Serb's low strike is tipped round the foot of the post by Mark Schwarzer!
    • 21' The home crowd are regaining their voice after being somewhat silienced by that early goal. Fulham seeing plenty of the ball but unable to get in behind the City defence. De Jong hauls Dempsey over on the rigth wing. A promising set piece for the Whites...
    • 20' Yaya Toure plays a no-look pass out wide for Zabaleta, but the Argetnine was not reading fromt he same page as the Ivorian midfielder.
    • 19' Johnson does well to beat De Jong in the air and win the ball, but his pass through to Dempsey is intercepted.
    • 18' Henry Winter on Twitter: "Maradona introduced as ``one of Fulham's biggest fans'', probably to the Cottage's surprise. Response? Chants of ``cheat cheat''."
    • 17' City seem content to sit back and invite Fulham on to them, in the hope that they will catch them ont he break. Johnson is caught offside for the Cottagers.
    • 16' Fulham's starting line-up is the oldest of the season in the Premier League at an average age of 30 years and 344 days, 4 years and 300 days older per player than City's starting XI today. (Infostrada)
    • 15' Duff's cross is half-cleared by Zabaleta and Salcido blazes a strike over the bar. Ambitious effort from the Mexican, but he can hit them.
    • 14' Damien Duff drifts in fromt he left and picks out Dempsey, but the American's progress is checked on the edge of the box. Fulham retain the ball, and continue to be patient in their play.
    • 13' Neat build-up from Fulham before Davies puts too much on the pass down the channel for Andy Johnson to chase.
    • 12' Tevez tries to pick out Pablo Zabaleta with a ball out to the right, but it's too far ahead of the attacking full-back.
    • 11' Dempsey lines up a strike from distance, but it is blocked on the edge of the box.
    • 10' Simon Davies dispossesses Kolarov as the full-back looks to charge down the left wing.
    • 9' City are undefeated in their five matches in London under Mancini after five consecutive defeats under Hughes. (Infostrada)
    • 8' Fulham earn a corner. Brede Hangeland is up there for it. The delivery comes to Aaron Hughes, who heads over the bar.
    • 7' Carlos Tevez's eighth league goal of the season has given City an early lead. They have won every match the Argentine has scored in this season.
    • 6' GOAL!! Tevez shrugs off Carlos Salcido on the edge of the box, looks across to the linesman to check he's onside before firing a clinical low finish past Mark Schwarzer!
    • 5' HEAD-TO-HEAD: Fulham and Man City have met 50 times in the league. Fulham have won 15, City 22 and there have been 13 draws. There have been 32 goals scored in the last eight PL matches between the two – an average of four goals per match. (Infostrada)
    • 4' Aleksandr Kolarov heads out for a Fulham throw. Clint Dempsey holds the ball up well on the edge of the City box but Fulham can't create a chance. Good early pressure fromt he home side.
    • 3' Jo picks up the ball and initiates a move forward from deep. Carlos Tevez plays it square to David Silva, but the Spaniard slips over.
    • 2' Dickson Etuhu goes in late on Yaya Toure. The Fulham man could easily have got a booking there. Nigel de Jong has a go at the referee for not acting. Pot, kettle etc...
    • 1' Fulham kick off and we're underway!
    • 15:57 The team's are walking out on to the field now. We'll be underway shortly...
    • 15:55 The referee for this match is Lee Mason. The Bolton official has dished out 23 yellow cards in just five Premier League matches so far this season, one of the highest rates in the division.
    • 15:50 Diego Maradona is striding across the Craven Cottage pitch, to a mixed reception, it must be said. not quite sure why he's here, but we can look forward to his performance in the directors' box.
    • 15:50 MATCH ODDS: Fulham 11/5, draw 21/10, Man City 7/5.
    • 15:50 Manchester City defender Kolo Toure says the club should cut the wages of his team-mates unless they start working harder and playing better after an erratic start to the season: "You need to be honest, even if you hurt people, and there are some players here, I am not scared to say, who are not working hard enough for the team." Read more here.
    • 15:45 City have exactly the same points - 22 from 13 Premier League games - as they did under Hughes year ago, but current City incumbent Roberto Mancini has tried to play down the significance of him facing his predecsesor: "Sunday will be Fulham (against) City not Hughes against Mancini." Read more here.
    • 15:40 It is 11 months since Fulham boss Mark Hughes was sacked as manager of Man City when he did not deliver the points quota demanded by the current owners, and the Welshman admits he is relishing the prospect of facing his old club: "It is always nice to go up against former clubs and show that there is life after you have left them." Read more here.
    • 15:35 Fulham could really do with a win this afternoon. They are only out of the relegation zone on goal difference,a nd a win would move them up to 14th in the table. City, meanwhile, will go above Bolton and back up to fourth with a win in west London, or even draw for that matter. Premier League table.
    • 15:30 England duo Joleon Lescott and Micah Richards both miss out for City. Lescott is struggling with a foot injury, while Richards has a rib problem following the midweek encounter with France. With Mario Balotelli still suspended, Roberto Mancini hands Brazilian striker Jo his first Premier League start in over two years as he partners Carlos Tevez up front.
    • 15:25 Fulham defender Carlos Salcido has recovered from injury in time to feature against Manchester City, as Chris Baird returns after two matches out with a thigh problem. Moussa Dembele is set to miss the next three weeks, however, after damaging ankle ligaments, and joins an injury list which includes Philippe Senderos (calf), Fredrik Stoor (groin) and Bobby Zamora (leg). Andy Johnson starts up front for the Cottagers.
    • 15:20 FULHAM: Schwarzer, Baird, Hangeland, Hughes, Salcido, Davies, Murphy, Etuhu, Duff, Dempsey, Andrew Johnson. Subs: Stockdale, Kelly, Pantsil, Gera, Kamara, Dikgacoi, Greening /// MAN CITY: Hart, Zabaleta, Toure, Kompany, Kolarov, Toure Yaya, De Jong, Barry, Jo, Tevez, Silva. Subs: Given, Milner, Wright-Phillips, Adebayor, Adam Johnson, Vieira, Boyata.
    • 15:15 Welcome to Eurosport-Yahoo!'s live coverage of the Premier League clash between Fulham and Manchester City at Craven Cottage!

  • Summary

    • 70' GOAL!! Fulham have pulled one back! A corner is headed away by Jo but only as far as Gera. The Hungarian strikes and, just as with Tevez's second goal, the ball clips off the boot of Dempsey and over Hart into the net!
    • 69' Baird tries to play the through ball into the box, but there is not a team-mate who reads it. Kamara is played in down the elft channel. The low cross comes in for Johnson, who can only steer it wide of the near post!
    • 59' Kolarov checks on to his left foot and curls in a shot from a wide angle that skims over the bar! Not sure Schwarzer would have made it had it been a couple of inches lower.
    • 56' GOAL!! Etuhu's clearance from the corner is poor and Zabaleta fires in a low strike. Tevez is standing in front of Schawrzer and the ball defelcts off him and loops over everyone and into the net! Well, they all count!
    • 55' Zabaleta plays Tevez clean through... he's one-on-one with Schwarzer... saved by the keeper! Tevez tried to toe-poke the ball through the keeper's legs.
    • 53' Good work from Dempsey on the edge of the box. He has his effort blocked but the crowd are lifted. Gera leaps at the far post and Hart saves the header, but the whistle had already gone for the Hungarian fouling his marker.
    • 35' GOAL!! Now City have three, and it was all too easy. Salcido is drawn towards Tevez and the striker plays Yaya Toure into the space the Mexican has left, and Yaya fires a clinical low strike across Schwarzer and into the far bottom corner!
    • 32' GOAL!! Silva cuts in from the left and his low cross runs just behind Tevez. The ball comes out to Zabaleta who lashes in a vicious swerving strike from 30 yards that gives Schwarzer no chance!
    • 22' Danny Murphy plays a canny ball square to Davies but the Welshman miscues his strike. Silva leads the City break and he plays it Kolarov. The Serb's low strike is tipped round the foot of the post by Mark Schwarzer!
    • 6' GOAL!! Tevez shrugs off Carlos Salcido on the edge of the box, looks across to the linesman to check he's onside before firing a clinical low finish past Mark Schwarzer!
    • 15:20 FULHAM: Schwarzer, Baird, Hangeland, Hughes, Salcido, Davies, Murphy, Etuhu, Duff, Dempsey, Andrew Johnson. Subs: Stockdale, Kelly, Pantsil, Gera, Kamara, Dikgacoi, Greening /// MAN CITY: Hart, Zabaleta, Toure, Kompany, Kolarov, Toure Yaya, De Jong, Barry, Jo, Tevez, Silva. Subs: Given, Milner, Wright-Phillips, Adebayor, Adam Johnson, Vieira, Boyata.

Team Line-up & Ratings

  • Line-up

    Live Team Line-Up

    • Starting line-up

      • M. Schwarzer
      • C. Baird
      • A. Hughes
      • B. Hangeland
      • C. Salcido
      • D. Murphy
      • D. Etuhu Yellow Card Substitution Out (64′)
      • S. Davies
      • D. Duff Substitution Out (45′)
      • C. Dempsey
      • A. Johnson Yellow Card

      Subs

      • J. Greening
      • Z. Gera Substitution In45′ Goal
      • S. Kelly
      • K. Dikgacoi
      • D. Stockdale
      • D. Kamará Substitution In64′
      • J. Pantsil

    • Starting line-up

      • J. Hart
      • P. Zabaleta Goal Yellow Card
      • K. Touré
      • V. Kompany
      • A. Kolarov
      • N. de Jong
      • G. Barry Substitution Out (82′)
      • Y. Touré Goal
      • D. Silva Substitution Out (89′)
      • Jô
      • C. Tévez Goals×2 Substitution Out (78′)

      Subs

      • P. Vieira Substitution In82′
      • S. Wright-Phillips
      • S. Given
      • E. Adebayor
      • J. Milner Substitution In89′
      • A. Johnson Substitution In78′
      • D. Boyata

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