User:Falastur2/City season 07-08

Manchester City
2007–08 season
ChairmanThailand Thaksin Shinawatra
ManagerSweden Sven-Göran Eriksson
Premier League9th
FA CupFourth Round
Carling CupFifth Round
Top goalscorerLeague:
Elano (6)

All:
Elano (8)
Highest home attendance47,321 vs Liverpool
(30 December 2007)
Lowest home attendance20,938 vs Norwich City
(25 September 2007)

The 2007–08 season is Manchester City's 116th season in the Football League, and their 6th consecutive season in the top division of English football.

Games edit

Pre-season edit

Doncaster Rovers  1 – 3  Manchester City
McDaid   16' (Report) Corradi   48'
Richards   63'
Mpenza   65'
Attendance: 6,375





Premier League edit

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification or relegation
7 Blackburn Rovers 38 15 13 10 50 48 +2 58
8 Portsmouth 38 16 9 13 48 40 +8 57 Qualification for the UEFA Cup first round[a]
9 Manchester City 38 15 10 13 45 53 −8 55 Qualification for the UEFA Cup first qualifying round[b]
10 West Ham United 38 13 10 15 42 50 −8 49
11 Tottenham Hotspur 38 11 13 14 66 61 +5 46 Qualification for the UEFA Cup first round[c]
Source: Premier League
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored.
For further information on European qualification see Premier League – Competition
Notes:
  1. ^ As FA Cup winners
  2. ^ Manchester City qualified as the highest-ranked team not already qualified for European competitions of Premier League Fair Play Ranking by The Football Association, the top association among UEFA Fair Play ranking winners.
  3. ^ As League Cup winners

Results by round edit

Round1234567891011121314151617181920212223242526272829303132333435363738
GroundAHHAAHAHHHAHAHAAHAHHAAHAHAHHAHAAHAHHAA
ResultWWWLLWDWWWLWDWDLWDDDWLDDLWLDLWDL
Updated to match(es) played on 1 April 2008. Source: City Premier League results
A = Away; H = Home; W = Win; D = Draw; L = Loss

Reports edit

West Ham United  0 – 2  Manchester City
(Report) Bianchi   18'
Geovanni   87'
Attendance: 34,921
Referee: Peter Walton

Manchester City  1 – 0  Derby County
Johnson   43' (Report)


Arsenal  1 – 0  Manchester City
van Persie  
Fabregas   80'
(Report)
Attendance: 60,114
Referee: Chris Foy

Blackburn Rovers  1 – 0  Manchester City
McCarthy   13'
Tugay   54'  
(Report) Dunne   65'  
Attendance: 26,881
Referee: Mike Dean

Manchester City  1 – 0  Aston Villa
Johnson   48' (Report)

Fulham  3 – 3  Manchester City
Davies   13'
Bouazza   48'
Murphy   74'
(Report) Petrov   36',   60'
Mpenza   50'
Attendance: 24,674
Referee: Mark Halsey

Manchester City  3 – 1  Newcastle United
Petrov   37'
Mpenza   47'
Elano   87'
(Report) Martins   29'

Manchester City  3 – 1  Middlesbrough
Riggott   10' (og)
Elano   33',   63'
(Report) Hutchinson   88'

Manchester City  1 – 0  Birmingham City
Elano   36' (Report)

Chelsea  6 – 0  Manchester City
Essien   16'
Drogba   31',   56'
Cole   60'
Kalou   75'
Shevchenko   90'
(Report)
Attendance: 41,832
Referee: Mike Riley

Manchester City  1 – 0  Sunderland
Ireland   66' (Report)

Portsmouth  0 – 0  Manchester City
(Report)
Attendance: 19,529
Referee: Mark Halsey

Manchester City  2 – 1  Reading
Petrov   11'
Ireland   90'
(Report) Harper   43'

Wigan Athletic  1 – 1  Manchester City
Scharner   24'
Melchiot   88'
(Report) Geovanni   1'
Attendance: 18,614
Referee: Mike Riley

Tottenham Hotspur  2 – 1  Manchester City
Chimbonda   44'
Defoe   82'
(Report) Bianchi   60'
Ireland   81'
Attendance: 35,646
Referee: Mark Halsey

Manchester City  4 – 2  Bolton Wanderers
Bianchi   7'
Michalík   48' (og)
Vassell   77'
Etuhu   90'
(Report) Diouf   31'
Nolan   40'

Aston Villa  1 – 1  Manchester City
Bianchi   11' (Report) Carew   14'
Attendance: 41,455
Referee: Lee Mason

Manchester City  2 – 2  Blackburn Rovers
Vassell   27'
Nelsen   30' (og)
(Report) Santa Cruz   28',   84'

Manchester City  0 – 0  Liverpool
(Report)

Newcastle United  0 – 2  Manchester City
(Report) Elano   38'
Fernandes   76'
Attendance: 50,956

Everton  1 – 0  Manchester City
Lescott   31' (Report)
Attendance: 38,474
Referee: Mark Halsey

Manchester City  1 – 1  West Ham United
Vassell   16' (Report) Cole   8'

Derby County  1 – 1  Manchester City
Jihai   47' (og) (Report) Sturridge   63'
Attendance: 31,368
Referee: Steve Bennett

Manchester City  1 – 3  Arsenal
Fernandes   28' (Report) Adebayor   9',   88'
Eduardo   26'

Manchester United  1 – 2  Manchester City
Carrick   90' (Report) Vassell   24'
Benjani   45'
Attendance: 75,970
Referee: Howard Webb

Manchester City  0 – 2  Everton
Petrov   90' (Report) Yakubu   30'
Lescott   37'


Reading  2 – 0  Manchester City
Long   62'
Kitson   87'
(Report)
Attendance: 24,062
Referee: Uriah Rennie

Manchester City  2 – 1  Tottenham Hotspur
Ireland   59'
Onuoha   71'
(Report) Keane   32'

Bolton Wanderers  0 – 0  Manchester City
(Report)
Attendance: 22,633

Birmingham City  3 – 1  Manchester City
Zarate   40',   54'
Queudrue   57'
McSheffrey   77' (pen)
(Report) Elano   59' (pen)
Attendance: 22,962
Referee: Rob Styles

FA Cup edit

Third Round edit



Fourth Round edit

Sheffield United  2 – 1  Manchester City
Shelton   11'
Stead   24'
(Report) Sturridge   48'
Attendance: 20,800
Referee: Alan Wiley

Carling Cup edit

Second Round edit

Bristol City  1 – 2  Manchester City
Orr   69' (Report) Mpenza   17'
Bianchi   81'
Attendance: 14,541
Referee: R. Beeby

Third Round edit


Fourth Round edit

Bolton Wanderers  0 – 1  Manchester City
(Report) Elano   85' (pen)
Attendance: 15,501
Referee: Howard Webb

Fifth Round edit


Squad statistics edit

Squad edit

No. Pos. Name League FA Cup Carling Cup Total Discipline
Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals    
1 GK   Andreas Isaksson 4 0 0 0 1 0 5 0 0 0
2 DF   Micah Richards (vc) 25 0 2 0 2 0 29 0 4 0
3 DF   Michael Ball 13(9) 0 3 0 3(1) 0 19(10) 0 2 0
4 DF   Nedum Onuoha 9(3) 0 2 0 2(1) 0 13(4) 0 0 0
6 MF   Michael Johnson 16 2 0 0 2 0 18 2 5 0
7 MF   Stephen Ireland 23(1) 2(1) 2 0 3 0 28(2) 2 2 1
8 MF   Geovanni 2(14) 3 0(1) 0 2(1) 0 4(16) 3 3 0
9 FW   Émile Mpenza 8(6) 2 1 0 1(1) 1 10(7) 3 0 0
10 FW   Rolando Bianchi 7(12) 4 0(2) 0 3 1 10(14) 5 0 0
11 MF   Elano 22(2) 5 2 1 2 1 26(2) 7 5 0
12 FW   Darius Vassell 15(3) 3 3 0 1(1) 0 19(4) 3 3 0
14 FW   Paul Dickov 0 0 0 0 0(1) 0 0(1) 0 0 0
15 MF   Martin Petrov 27 4 3 0 1 0 31 4 2 1
16 DF   Vedran Ćorluka 26(1) 0 3 0 3 0 32(1) 0 5 0
17 DF   Sun Jihai 2(5) 0 0 0 2 0 4(5) 0 1 0
18 DF   Danny Mills 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
19 GK   Kasper Schmeichel 7 0 0 0 0 0 7 0 0 0
20 FW   Felipe Caicedo 0(4) 0 0 0 0 0 0(4) 0 0 0
21 MF   Dietmar Hamann 25 0 3 0 2 0 30 0 10 0
22 DF   Richard Dunne (c) 28 0 3 0 3 0 34 0 4 1
24 DF   Javier Garrido 17(4) 0 0 0 2 0 19(4) 0 4 0
25 GK   Joe Hart 18 0 3 0 3 0 24 0 0 0
26 DF   Matthew Mills 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
27 FW   Benjani Mwaruwari 4 1 0 0 0 0 4 1 0 0
28 MF   Gelson Fernandes 13(5) 2 1(2) 0 2(1) 0 16(8) 2 4 0
29 FW   Valeri Bojinov 1(2) 0 0 0 0 0 1(2) 0 0 0
30 MF   Nery Castillo 1(3) 0 2 0 0 0 3(3) 0 0 0
33 FW   Ched Evans 0 0 0 0 0(1) 0 0(1) 0 0 0
36 FW   Daniel Sturridge 2 1 0(1) 1 0 0 2(1) 2 0 0
37 MF   Kelvin Etuhu 2(4) 1 0(1) 0 0(1) 0 2(6) 1 1 0
38 DF   Shaleum Logan 0 0 0 0 2 0 2 0 0 0
FW   Bernardo Corradi 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
FW   Georgios Samaras 2(3) 0 0 0 2 1 4(3) 1 0 0
Sold MF   Ousmane Dabo 0 0 0 0 0(1) 0 0(1) 0 0 0
Sold MF   Marc Laird 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Sold MF   Ishmael Miller 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

As of game played 10 February 2008

Scorers edit

As of game played 29 March 2008

Awards edit

Premier League Awards edit

Month Manager of the Month Player of the Month
August 2007   Sven-Göran Eriksson[1]   Micah Richards[1]

Thomas Cook Player of the Month edit

Month First Team Reserve Team Academy
Aug/Sept[2]   Dietmar Hamann   Richard Martin   Scott Kay
October[3]   Elano   Ashley Grimes   Ben Mee
November[4]   Vedran Ćorluka   Javan Vidal   Kieran Trippier
December[5]   Richard Dunne   Karl Moore   David Ball
January[6]   Michael Ball ??   Vladimir Weiss
February[6]   Joe Hart   Paul Marshall   Greg Hartley

Other edit

Date Player Award
February[7]   Richard Dunne FAI International Player of the Year 2007
February[7]   Stephen Ireland FAI Young International Player of the Year 2007

Transfers edit

In edit

Date Pos. Name From Fee
2007-07-13 FW   Rolando Bianchi Reggina £8.8m[8]
2007-07-14 MF   Gelson Fernandes FC Sion Undisclosed[9]
2007-07-17 MF   Geovanni Cruzeiro Free[10]
2007-07-26 MF   Martin Petrov Atlético Madrid £4.7m[11]
2007-08-02 DF   Vedran Ćorluka Dinamo Zagreb Undisclosed[12]
2007-08-02 MF   Elano Shakhtar Donetsk £8m[12]
2007-08-02 DF   Javier Garrido Real Sociedad £1.5m[12]
2007-08-03 FW   Valeri Bojinov Fiorentina Undisclosed[13]
2007-08-10 GK   Richard Martin Unattached Free[14]
2007-11-16 FW   Teerasil Dangda Unattached Free[15]
2007-11-16 DF   Kiatprawut Saiwaeo Unattached Free[15]
2007-11-16 DF   Suree Sukha Unattached Free[15]
2008-01-31 FW   Felipe Caicedo FC Basel £5m[16]
2008-01-31[17] FW   Benjani Mwaruwari Portsmouth £3.87m[18]

Out edit

Date Pos. Name To Fee
2007-05-23 DF   Sylvain Distin Portsmouth Free[19]
2007-06-14 MF   Joey Barton Newcastle United £5.8m[20]
2007-07-04 GK   Nicky Weaver Charlton Athletic Free[21]
2007-07-04 DF   Nathan D'Laryea Rochdale Free[22]
2007-07-10 MF   Trevor Sinclair Cardiff City Free[23]
2007-07-16 DF   Stephen Jordan Burnley Free[24]
2007-10-05 DF   Hatem Trabelsi Al-Hilal Free[25]
2008-01-09 MF   Marc Laird Millwall Free[26]
2008-01-31 MF   Ousmane Dabo Lazio Free[27]
2008-01-31 FW   Ishmael Miller West Bromwich Albion £1.5m[28]

Loan in edit

Date From Date To Position Name From
2008-01-01 2008-12-31 FW   Nery Castillo Shakhtar Donetsk[29]
2008-01-31 2008-06-31 FW   Filippo Mancini Inter Milan[16]

Loan out edit

Date From Date To Position Name To
2007-08-15 2008-06-30 MF   Ishmael Miller West Bromwich Albion[30]
2007-08-21 2007-11-21[31] DF   Matthew Mills Doncaster Rovers[32]
2007-08-31 2008-06-30 FW   Bernardo Corradi Parma[33]
2007-08-31 2007-12-31 FW   Paul Dickov Crystal Palace[34]
2007-08-31 2007-12-31 DF   Danny Mills Charlton Athletic[35]
2007-10-11 2007-11-10 DF   Shaleum Logan Scunthorpe United[36]
2007-10-25 2007-11-24 GK   Kasper Schmeichel Cardiff City[37]
2007-11-08 2007-12-07 MF   Marc Laird Port Vale[38]
2007-11-10 2007-12-09 DF   Shaleum Logan Scunthorpe United[39]
2007-11-21 2007-12-20 FW   Ched Evans Norwich City[40]
2008-01-04 2008-06-30 DF   Danny Mills Derby County[41]
2008-01-10 2008-02-26 FW   Ched Evans Norwich City[42]
2008-01-11 2008-06-30 DF   Matthew Mills Doncaster Rovers[43]
2008-01-23 2008-06-30 FW   Rolando Bianchi Lazio[44]
2008-01-29 2008-06-30 FW   Georgios Samaras Celtic[45]
2008-01-31 2008-06-30 FW   Paul Dickov Blackpool[46]
2008-02-22 2008-03-14[47] DF   Shaleum Logan Stockport County[48]
2008-02-27 2008-06-30 FW   Teerasil Dangda Grasshopper-Club Zürich[49]
2008-02-27 2008-06-30 DF   Kiatprawut Saiwaeo Grasshopper-Club Zürich[49]
2008-02-27 2008-06-30 DF   Suree Sukha Grasshopper-Club Zürich[49]
2008-03-13 2008-06-30 GK   Kasper Schmeichel Coventry City[50]
2008-03-24 2008-06-30 DF   Shaleum Logan Stockport County[51]

See also edit

References edit

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