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Manchester City
4 - 2 Full time
Cardiff City

Etihad Stadium

Lineups

Manchester City4-4-2
JH1Hart
PZ5Zabaleta
VK4Kompany
MD26Demichelis
AK13Kolarov
JN15⚽↓82'Navas
YT42⚽Touré
JG14Garcia
DS21↓80'Silva
9↓62'Negredo
ED10⚽Dzeko
DM1Marshall
KT28Theophile-Catherine
SC4Caulker
BT6Turner
KM25↓68'McNaughton
GM8Medel
CN16⚽Noone
AG17↓78'Gunnarsson
JM18Mutch
PW7↓68'Whittingham
FC10⚽Campbell
Cardiff City4-1-4-1

Manchester City substitutes

16 Sergio Agüero ⚽↑62'
7 James Milner ↑80'
22 Gael Clichy ↑82'
30 Costel Pantilimon
25 Fernandinho
6 Joleon Lescott
33 Matija Nastasic

Coach: Manuel Pellegrini

Cardiff City substitutes

39 Craig Bellamy ↑68'
42 Declan John ↑68'
15 Magnus Wolff Eikrem ↑78'
13 Bo-Kyung Kim
32 Joe Lewis
5 Mark Hudson
11 Peter Odemwingie

Coach: Ole Gunnar Solskjær

Match events

14'Edin Dzeko assist: David Silva 1 - 0⚽
18'Álvaro Negredo
29'Craig Noone assist: Aron Gunnarsson 1 - 1⚽
33'Jesus Navas 2 - 1⚽
Second half
62'↑ Sergio Agüero ↓ Álvaro Negredo⇄
68'↑ Declan John ↓ Kevin McNaughton⇄
68'↑ Craig Bellamy ↓ Peter Whittingham⇄
75'Aleksandar Kolarov
76'Yaya Touré assist: Sergio Agüero 3 - 1⚽
78'↑ Magnus Wolff Eikrem ↓ Aron Gunnarsson⇄
79'Sergio Agüero assist: Yaya Touré 4 - 1⚽
80'↑ James Milner ↓ David Silva⇄
82'↑ Gael Clichy ↓ Jesus Navas⇄
90'Fraizer Campbell assist: Magnus Wolff Eikrem 4 - 2⚽

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Match details

CompetitionPremier League
Kick-off (UTC)Saturday, 18 January 2014, 15:00 UTC — shown in your local time at the top of this page
StatusFinished

Line-ups, match events and the head-to-head record for this fixture are shown on this page where the data feed publishes them.

Head to head

3Manchester City wins0Draws1Cardiff City wins

4 past meetings on record. Biggest Manchester City win: Manchester City 2–0 Cardiff City (2019). Biggest Cardiff City win: Cardiff City 0–5 Manchester City (2018).

3 Apr 2019Manchester City 2 - 0 Cardiff CityPremier League
22 Sep 2018Cardiff City 0 - 5 Manchester CityPremier League
28 Jan 2018Cardiff City 0 - 2 Manchester CityFA Cup
25 Aug 2013Cardiff City 3 - 2 Manchester CityPremier League