User:Mancini's Sandbox/2009–10
Manchester City | |
Season 2009–10 | |
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Owner | Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan |
Chairman | Khaldoon Al Mubarak |
Managers | Mark Hughes (until 19 Dec. 2009) Roberto Mancini |
Team captain | Kolo Touré |
Home stadium | City of Manchester Stadium (a.k.a. Eastlands and CoMS) |
Premier League | Fifth |
League Cup | Semi-final |
FA Cup | Fifth round |
Top goalscorer | League: Carlos Tévez (23 goals) (4th highest in Premier League) All comps: Carlos Tévez (29 goals) |
Season revenue | € 152.8 million (5th highest in Premier League) | (11th highest in world)
Average home attendance |
45,512 – over 19 PL home games (3rd highest in Premier League) |
Highest home attendance |
47,370 Tottenham Hotspur 5 May 2010 | v
Highest away attendance |
75,066 Manchester United 20 September 2009 | v
Lowest home attendance |
24,507 Fulham 23 September 2009 | v
Lowest away attendance |
8,861 Scunthorpe United 24 January 2010 | v
← 2008–09 2010–11 → |
Results summary - all competitions | ||||
Wins | Draws | Losses | Win % | |
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Home | 16 | 5 | 3 | 66.7% |
Away | 9 | 9 | 6 | 37.5% |
Both | 25 | 14 | 9 | 52.1% |
Results summary - Premier League | ||||
Wins | Draws | Losses | Win % | |
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Home | 12 | 4 | 3 | 63.2% |
Away | 6 | 9 | 4 | 31.6% |
Both | 18 | 13 | 7 | 47.4% |
The 2009–10 season is Manchester City Football Club's eighth consecutive season playing in the Premier League, the top division of English football, and its thirteenth season since the Premier League was first created with Manchester City as one of the its original 22 founding member clubs. Overall, it is the team's 118th season playing in a division of English football, most of which have been spent in the top flight. The club started the season under the management of Mark Hughes who was controversially sacked in mid-December after the team notched up seven consecutive draws in the Premier League.[1] He was replaced by the Italian manager Roberto Mancini.
Season review
[edit]After only five months in the job at Eastlands, new manager Roberto Mancini demonstrated that he clearly deserved, and should get, more time to "mould the team to his own image."[2][3] In his first few months in the job, after succeeding Mark Hughes in December, the Italian did make some noticeable improvements to the team, such as ironing out its occasional lack of focus and cohesion in defence whilst also improving the overall mentality of the team. Yet by the end of the season it had become obvious that there was much work still to be done in order to convince some of Mancini's higher-profile players to sign up to his personal ethos.[4]
With a prolific 29 goals in his first season at the club, Carlos Tévez was widely regarded as the club's best and most important player this season,[5] with the feisty Argentinian striker becoming an almost talismanic figurehead, not just for the team on the field of play and the fans in the stands, but also with regard to the whole zeitgeist associated with this new era in the club's history. Unfortunately for City, this campaign saw too many of his team mates failing to match his high work rate and fecund output.[6] There were a number of players who flattered to deceive this season, with the most notable of them being the previous season's fan's favourite and top scorer, Robinho. The Brazilian's second season in English football proved to be a disastrous one for both the "marquee signing" and the Mark who signed him, with his January loan out to Brazilian club Santos for the remainder of the season[7] only serving to emphasise the magnitude of his failure to deliver on the pitch anything remotely comparable to what he had already received in his bank account.
The loss in the team's last home game of the season to fellow rivals for landing one of the Premier League's "Top Four" elite slots, Tottenham Hotspur, in what had been dubbed by the media beforehand as the "Champions League play-off" game, was considered by many observers to be the Manchester club's defining moment of the season.[3] Breaking the established stranglehold of the "Big Four" had been, and still is, one of the ambitions of the club's new wealthy owners, yet the players they expensively accumulated to achieve this feat failed to deliver, if only marginally so. However, one of the positives for City to be taken from this season's campaign will be that the club reached its first major semi-final since 1981 (albeit with the most expensive squad ever assembled to try to win the Carling Cup) before finally succumbing to the eventual trophy winners and bitter rivals from across the city, Manchester United.[8][9] The City team also notched up some highly noteworthy victories over the other "Top Four" incumbents, Chelsea[10][11] and Arsenal.[12][13]
In fact, Manchester City earned itself the distinction of being the only team to do the "league double" over the team that ultimately achieved the "league and cup double" this season. So as much as the season may have seemed like yet another false dawn to the ever-faithful and loyal City fans,[14] the club is in reality "a work in progress"[15][16] that appears to still be on course to arrive where it ultimately wants to be,[17][18][19] and with more new signings in the close season, will presumably get even closer to achieving its very ambitious agenda next season. Given that the club is building its team from a much weaker base than Chelsea did under Roman Abramovich (viz. Chelsea had already finished fourth in the Premier League in the 2002–03 season before Abramovich purchased the club in June 2003) progress will naturally be somewhat slower despite the vast wealth of City's current ownership. So this season's campaign should still be considered to be a successful one for City, regardless of the fact that the team narrowly missed its main goal of qualifying for an opportunity to play in the Champions League in 2010–11.[3]
Team kit
[edit]For this season the shirt sponsor for all of the club's kits was Etihad Airways which replaced the previous season's sponsor, Thomas Cook. There was also a change in the supplier of those kits for this season, with Nike owned Umbro replacing the previous season's supplier, Le Coq Sportif. As a result of the switch from its prior French kit supplier to the Greater Manchester-based Umbro, all of the club's previous season's team and goalkeeper kits were essentially replaced with new ones for this season. The overall sky blue color of the first team kit was retained but the style and trim if this strip was significantly changed. Completely new away and third team kits were introduced, while a new all green goalkeeper strip replaced the previous season's gold and black strip as the primary one for use by the stoppers, with a newly styled and trimmed variant of the old gold and black strip now becoming the secondary strip for use by the keepers in away fixtures.
The new all black away team kit came with gold vertical shoulder trim on the front that enabled the kit to be color coordinated with the gold and black goalkeeper strip, although it was sometimes also used with the all green goalkeeper strip. This gold and black color scheme was, according to its designer David Blanch,[20] intended to be symbolic of the globe covered with bees (representing the world, to all parts of which the goods of the city are exported) that is featured on the city of Manchester coat of arms. That is because the Manchester City teams in the past have established the unique tradition of always wearing this crest on their shirts when playing at Wembley (or in a major cup final elsewhere) as a symbol of their pride in representing the city of Manchester at a major sporting event. In heraldic terms, the bee is symbolic of a hive of industry, and even today the Manchester bee is often used all by itself as a shorthand emblem for the city of Manchester.
The red and black diagonal sash across the white shirts of the new third team kit was intended as a nostalgic re-mastering of the original sashed strip worn by the City team back in the seventies,[21] while that original design had, in its turn, been a nod back at the classic red and black striped shirts with black shorts that had originally been introduced by coach Malcolm Allison in imitation of A.C. Milan's strip, and which was frequently worn in its cup ties by the successful trophy-winning City team of the late sixties and early seventies.
Kit usage
[edit]Numbers denote: "number of home games : number of away or neutral venue games"
X indicates potential home fixtures where away and third team kits are usually never used
Kit usage | |||||
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Team kits | Goalkeeper strips | No. of games team kit and goalkeeper strip combinations used during season | |||
Premier League | League Cup and FA Cup |
TOTALS All competitions |
Friendly games | ||
Home v1 | GK strip 1 | 19 : 6 | 5 : 1 | 31 | 1 : 5 |
GK strip 2 | – | 0 : 1 | 1 | – | |
Home v2 | GK strip 1 | – | 0 : 1 | 1 | – |
GK strip 2 | – | 0 : 1 | 1 | – | |
Away v1 | GK strip 1 | X : 1 | – | 1 | – |
GK strip 2 | X : 8 | X : 1 | 9 | X : 1 | |
Away v2 | GK strip 1 | X : 1 | – | 1 | X : 1 |
Third | GK strip 2 | X : 3 | – | 3 | – |
Total games | 19 : 19 | 5 : 5 | 48 | 1 : 7 |
Table information current as of the end of the season
Last updated: 24 April 2011.
Source: All video highlights for corresponding season 2009-10 games on MCFC OWS
This season in context
[edit]Prior to this season, the history of Manchester City's performance in the English football league hierarchy since the creation of the Premier League in 1992 is summarised by the following timeline chart – which commences with the last season (1991-92) of the old Football League First Division (from which the Premier League was formed).
Friendly games
[edit]Pre-season
[edit]11 July 2009 | 1860 Munich | 1 – 1 | Manchester City | Rottach-Egern, Germany |
Ludwig 30' | Report & video | 60' Bojinov | Attendance: 3,000 |
18 July 2009 First round | Orlando Pirates | 2 – 0 | Manchester City | Polokwane, South Africa |
14:00 (local time) | Thwala 35' (pen) Mongala 55' Kanono 90' |
MCFC report Football365 report YouTube video |
45' Bellamy 45' Petrov |
Stadium: Peter Mokaba Stadium Attendance: 26,000 Referee: Alex Tiyeho (Namibia) |
21 July 2009 First round | Kaizer Chiefs | 0 – 1 | Manchester City | Durban, South Africa |
19:15 (local time) | MCFC report Football365 report MCFC video |
44' Caicedo 45+2' Ireland 54' Barry |
Stadium: Kings Park Stadium Attendance: 45,000 Referee: Welington Kaoma (Zambia) |
25 July 2009 Final | Kaizer Chiefs | 1 – 0 | Manchester City | Pretoria, South Africa |
14:00 (local time) | Ntuka 42' | MCFC report Football365 report |
Stadium: Loftus Versfeld Stadium Attendance: 40,000 Referee: Rajindraparsad Seechurn (Mauritius) |
1 August 2009 | Barnsley | 1 – 1 | Manchester City | Barnsley, England |
15:00 BST | Bogdanovic 84' | MCFC report MCFC video |
87' Petrov | Stadium: Oakwell Stadium Attendance: 13,611 Referee: Jonathan Moss (West Yorkshire) |
5 August 2009 | Rangers | 3 – 2 | Manchester City | Glasgow, Scotland |
19:45 BST | Novo 19' Davis 54' Weir 90+2' |
MCFC report MCFC video |
27' Ireland 52' Petrov |
Stadium: Ibrox Stadium Attendance: 35,120 Referee: Craig Thomson (Paisley) |
8 August 2009 | Manchester City | 2 – 1 | Celtic | Manchester, England |
15:00 BST | Barry 16' Bellamy 51' |
MCFC report MCFC video |
23' Killen | Stadium: City of Manchester Stadium Attendance: 29,023 Referee: Martin Atkinson (Yorkshire) |
Mid-season
[edit]19 August 2009 | Barcelona | 0 – 1 | Manchester City | Barcelona, Spain |
21:15 BST | MCFC report FC Barcelona report YouTube video |
27' Petrov | Stadium: Camp Nou Attendance: 94,123 Referee: David Miranda Torres (Catalonia) |
Emirates Foundation Cup
[edit]12 November 2009 | United Arab Emirates | 1 – 0 | Manchester City | Abu Dhabi, UAE |
16:00 GMT | Al-Shehhi 9' (pen.) | MCFC report YouTube video |
Stadium: Sheikh Zayed Stadium Attendance: 26,000 Referee: Mohamed Omar Al Saeedi (UAE) |
Competitive games
[edit]Position in final standings
[edit]Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification or relegation |
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3 | Arsenal | 38 | 23 | 6 | 9 | 83 | 41 | +42 | 75 | Qualification for the Champions League group stage |
4 | Tottenham Hotspur | 38 | 21 | 7 | 10 | 67 | 41 | +26 | 70 | Qualification for the Champions League play-off round |
5 | Manchester City | 38 | 18 | 13 | 7 | 73 | 45 | +28 | 67 | Qualification for the Europa League play-off round[a] |
6 | Aston Villa | 38 | 17 | 13 | 8 | 52 | 39 | +13 | 64 | |
7 | Liverpool | 38 | 18 | 9 | 11 | 61 | 35 | +26 | 63 | Qualification for the Europa League third qualifying round[b] |
Notes:
- ^ Since Manchester United won the League Cup and then qualified for the Champions League, their spot in the Europa League was passed down to the 6th-placed team. The 6th-placed Aston Villa was coincidentally also the League Cup runners-up.
- ^ Originally Portsmouth qualified for the third qualifying round of the Europa League as the FA Cup runners-up, replacing the winners, Champions League-qualified Chelsea. However, they failed to apply for a UEFA licence. Therefore, Liverpool as the best placed team not qualified for the European competitions took their place.
Results summary
[edit]Overall | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||
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Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD |
38 | 18 | 13 | 7 | 73 | 45 | +28 | 67 | 12 | 4 | 3 | 41 | 20 | +21 | 6 | 9 | 4 | 32 | 25 | +7 |
Last updated: 9 May 2010 (end of season).
Source: Premier League results 2009-10
Points breakdown[edit]
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Biggest & smallest[edit]Biggest home win: 5–1 vs. Birmingham City, 11 April 2010 |
Results by round
[edit]A = Away; H = Home; W = Win; D = Draw; L = Loss
Individual match reports
[edit]Blackburn Rovers | 0 – 2 | Manchester City |
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BBC Sport report Guardian report |
3' Adebayor 90+1' Ireland |
Manchester City | 1 – 0 | Wolverhampton Wanderers |
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Adebayor 17' | BBC Sport report Guardian report |
Portsmouth | 0 – 1 | Manchester City |
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BBC Sport report Guardian report |
30' Adebayor |
Manchester City | 4 – 2 | Arsenal |
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Richards 19' Bellamy 73' Adebayor 79' Wright-Phillips 84' |
BBC Sport report Guardian report |
62' van Persie 87' Rosický |
Manchester United | 4 – 3 | Manchester City |
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Rooney 2' Fletcher 49', 80' Owen 90+6' |
BBC Sport report Guardian report |
16' Barry 52', 90' Bellamy |
Manchester City | 3 – 1 | West Ham United |
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Tévez 5', 61' Petrov 31' |
BBC Sport report Guardian report |
24' Cole |
Aston Villa | 1 – 1 | Manchester City |
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Dunne 15' | BBC Sport report Guardian report |
67' Bellamy |
Wigan Athletic | 1 – 1 | Manchester City |
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N'Zogbia 45+1' | BBC Sport report Guardian report |
47' Petrov |
Manchester City | 2 – 2 | Fulham |
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Lescott 53' Petrov 60' |
BBC Sport report Guardian report |
62' Duff 68' Dempsey |
Birmingham City | 0 – 0 | Manchester City |
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BBC Sport report Guardian report |
Manchester City | 3 – 3 | Burnley |
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Wright-Phillips 42' Touré 54' Bellamy 57' |
BBC Sport report Guardian report |
18' Alexander 31' Fletcher 86' McDonald |
Liverpool | 2 – 2 | Manchester City |
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Škrtel 50' Benayoun 77' |
BBC Sport report Guardian report |
69' Adebayor 76' Ireland |
Manchester City | 1 – 1 | Hull City |
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Wright-Phillips 45+1' | BBC Sport report Guardian report |
82' (pen.) Bullard |
Manchester City | 2 – 1 | Chelsea |
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Adebayor 37' Tévez 56' |
BBC Sport report Guardian report |
8' (o.g.) Adebayor |
Bolton Wanderers | 3 – 3 | Manchester City |
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Klasnić 11', 53' Cahill 43' |
BBC Sport report Guardian report |
28', 77' Tévez 45+2' Richards |
Tottenham Hotspur | 3 – 0 | Manchester City |
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Kranjčar 37', 90+3' Defoe 54' |
BBC Sport report Guardian report |
Manchester City | 4 – 3 | Sunderland |
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Santa Cruz 4', 69' Tévez 12' (pen.) Bellamy 35' |
BBC Sport report Guardian report |
16' Mensah 24' Henderson 62' Jones |
Manchester City | 2 – 0 | Stoke City |
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Petrov 27' Tévez 45+3' |
BBC Sport report Guardian report |
Wolverhampton Wanderers | 0 – 3 | Manchester City |
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BBC Sport report Guardian report |
33', 86' Tévez 69' Garrido |
Manchester City | 4 – 1 | Blackburn Rovers |
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Tévez 7', 49', 90+1' Richards 39' |
BBC Sport report Guardian report |
71' Pedersen |
Everton | 2 – 0 | Manchester City |
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Pienaar 36' Saha 45+3' |
BBC Sport report Guardian report |
Manchester City | 2 – 0 | Portsmouth |
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Adebayor 39' Kompany 45+1' |
BBC Sport report Guardian report |
Hull City | 2 – 1 | Manchester City |
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Altidore 31' Boateng 54' |
BBC Sport report Guardian report |
59' Adebayor |
Manchester City | 2 – 0 | Bolton Wanderers |
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Tévez 31' (pen.) Adebayor 73' |
BBC Sport report Guardian report |
Stoke City | 1 – 1 | Manchester City |
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Whelan 72' | BBC Sport report Guardian report |
86' Barry |
Manchester City | 0 – 0 | Liverpool |
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BBC Sport report Guardian report |
Chelsea | 2 – 4 | Manchester City |
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Lampard 42', 90+1' (pen.) | BBC Sport report Guardian report |
45+1', 76' (pen.) Tévez 51', 87' Bellamy |
Sunderland | 1 – 1 | Manchester City |
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Jones 9' | BBC Sport report Guardian report |
90+1' A. Johnson |
Fulham | 1 – 2 | Manchester City |
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Murphy 75' (pen.) | BBC Sport report Guardian report |
7' Santa Cruz 36' Tévez |
Manchester City | 0 – 2 | Everton |
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BBC Sport report Guardian report |
33' Cahill 85' Arteta |
Manchester City | 3 – 0 | Wigan Athletic |
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Tévez 72', 75', 84' | BBC Sport report Guardian report |
Burnley | 1 – 6 | Manchester City |
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Fletcher 71' | BBC Sport report Guardian report |
4', 45' Adebayor 5' Bellamy 7' Tévez 20' Vieira 58' Kompany |
Manchester City | 5 – 1 | Birmingham City |
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Tévez 38' (pen.) 40' Adebayor 43' Onuoha 74' Adebayor 88' |
BBC Sport report Guardian report Guardian live text |
42' Jerome |
Manchester City | 0 – 1 | Manchester United |
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BBC Sport report Guardian report |
90+3' Scholes |
Arsenal | 0 – 0 | Manchester City |
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BBC Sport report Observer report Guardian report Guardian match facts |
Manchester City | 3 – 1 | Aston Villa |
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Tévez 41' (pen.) Adebayor 43' Bellamy 89' |
BBC Sport report Guardian report |
16' Carew |
Manchester City | 0 – 1 | Tottenham Hotspur |
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BBC Sport report Guardian report |
82' Crouch |
West Ham United | 1 – 1 | Manchester City |
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Boa Morte 18' | BBC Sport report Guardian report |
21' Wright-Phillips |
Second round
[edit]Crystal Palace | 0 – 2 | Manchester City |
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BBC Sport report Guardian report |
50' Wright-Phillips 72' Tévez |
Third round
[edit]Manchester City | (1) 2 – 1 (1) | Fulham |
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Barry 52' Touré 111' |
BBC Sport report Guardian report |
34' Gera |
Fourth round
[edit]Manchester City | 5 – 1 | Scunthorpe United |
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Ireland 3' Santa Cruz 37' Lescott 55' Tévez 71' M. Johnson 76' |
BBC Sport report Guardian report |
25' Forte |
Fifth round
[edit]Manchester City | 3 – 0 | Arsenal |
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Tévez 50' Wright-Phillips 69' Weiss 89' |
BBC Sport report Guardian report MCFC video |
Semi-Final
[edit]First leg
[edit]Manchester City | 2 – 1 | Manchester United |
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Tévez 42' (pen.), 65' | BBC Sport report Guardian report Guardian live text |
17' Giggs |
Second leg
[edit]Manchester United | 3 – 1 | Manchester City |
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Scholes 57' Carrick 71' Rooney 90+2' |
BBC Sport report Guardian report Guardian live text |
76' Tévez |
Manchester United won 4–3 on aggregate.
Third round
[edit]Middlesbrough | 0 – 1 | Manchester City |
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BBC Sport report Observer report Guardian report |
45' Benjani |
Fourth round
[edit]Scunthorpe United | 2 – 4 | Manchester City |
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Hayes 29' Boyata 69' (o.g.) |
BBC Sport report Guardian report Guardian live text |
3' Petrov 45' Onuoha 57' Sylvinho 84' Robinho |
Fifth round
[edit]Manchester City | 1 – 1 | Stoke City |
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Wright-Phillips 11' | BBC Sport report Observer report Guardian report Guardian live text |
57' Fuller |
Fifth round replay
[edit]Stoke City | (1) 3 – 1 (1) | Manchester City |
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Kitson 79' Shawcross 95' Tuncay 99' |
BBC Sport report Guardian report |
81' Bellamy |
Playing statistics
[edit]Appearances (Apps.) numbers are for appearances in competitive games only
Apps. numbers denote: Total no. of games played (No. of games played as a substitute)
Red card numbers denote: No. of second yellow cards / No. of straight red cards
** indicates retroactive 3-match ban by F.A. for violent conduct towards Robin van Persie in PL game against Arsenal at Eastlands on 12 Sep. 2009
*** indicates retroactive 3-match ban by F.A. for violent conduct towards Glenn Whelan in PL game against Stoke City at the Britannia Stadium on 16 Feb. 2010
No. | Pos. | Player | League | FA Cup | League Cup | Total | Discipline | |||||
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Apps. | Goals | Apps. | Goals | Apps. | Goals | Apps. | Goals | |||||
1 | GK | Shay Given | 35 | (0)3 | (0)6 | (0)44 | (0)2 | |||||
2 | DF | Micah Richards | 23 | (4)3 | 2 | (0)4 | (0)29 | (4)3 | 4 | |||
3 | DF | Wayne Bridge | 23 | (0)2 | (0)3 | (0)28 | (0)2 | |||||
4 | DF | Nedum Onuoha | 10 | (5)1 | 2 | (0)1 | 1 | (1)13 | (6)2 | |||
5 | DF | Pablo Zabaleta | 27 | (4)4 | (1)4 | (0)35 | (5)12 | 1/– | ||||
6 | MF | Michael Johnson | 1 (1) | 1 | (1)1 | 2 (2) | 1 | |||||
7 | MF | Stephen Ireland | 22 | (6)2 | 3 | (0)5 | (1)1 | 30 | (7)3 | |||
8 | MF | Shaun Wright-Phillips | 30 (11) | 4 | 2 | (1)1 | 6 | (0)2 | 38 (12) | 7 | 2 | |
10 | FW | Robinho | 10 | (4)1 | (0)1 | 1 | (0)12 | (4)1 | ||||
11 | MF | Adam Johnson | 16 | (2)1 | 16 | (2)1 | 1 | |||||
12 | GK | Stuart Taylor | 1 | (0)1 (0) | ||||||||
14 | FW | Roque Santa Cruz | 19 (13) | 3 | 2 | (2)1 | (0)1 | 22 (15) | 4 | 1 | ||
15 | DF | Javier Garrido | 9 (2) | 1 | 1 | (0)2 | (0)12 | (2)1 | 2 | |||
16 | DF | Sylvinho | 10 | (4)3 | (1)1 | 2 | (1)15 | (6)1 | 3 | |||
17 | MF | Martin Petrov | 17 | (9)4 | 4 | (1)1 | 1 | (1)22 (11) | 5 | |||
18 | MF | Gareth Barry | 34 | (0)2 | 3 | (1)6 | (0)1 | 43 | (1)3 | 5 | ||
19 | DF | Joleon Lescott | 19 | (1)1 | 2 | (0)4 | (0)1 | 25 | (1)2 | 1 | ||
Sold | DF | Richard Dunne | 2 (0) | 2 (0) | 1 | |||||||
24 | MF | Patrick Vieira | 13 | (5)1 | 1 | (1)14 | (6)1 | 2 | *** | |||
25 | FW | Emmanuel Adebayor | 26 | (1)14 | 2 | (0)3 | (1)31 | (2)14 | 1 | –/1 ** | ||
27 | FW | Benjani Mwaruwari | 2 (1) | 2 | (0)1 | 2 | (2)6 (3) | 1 | ||||
28 | DF | Kolo Touré (c) | 31 | (0)1 | 1 | (0)3 | (0)1 | 35 | (0)2 | 1 | ||
32 | FW | Carlos Tévez | 35 | (3)23 | 1 | (1)6 | (0)6 | 42 | (4)29 | 7 | ||
33 | DF | Vincent Kompany | 25 | (4)2 | 3 | (0)4 | (1)32 | (5)2 | 3 | |||
34 | MF | Nigel de Jong | 34 | (4)3 | (0)5 | (1)42 | (5)9 | |||||
37 | GK | Gunnar Nielsen | 1 (1) | 1 (1) | ||||||||
38 | GK | Márton Fülöp | 3 (0) | 3 (0) | ||||||||
39 | FW | Craig Bellamy | 32 | (6)10 | 3 | (2)1 | 5 | (1)40 | (9)11 | 7 | 1/– | |
40 | MF | Vladimir Weiss | 1 | (0)3 | (3)1 | 4 (3) | 1 | |||||
44 | DF | Dedryck Boyata | 3 (2) | 2 | (0)2 | (0)7 (2) | 1 | |||||
45 | DF | Greg Cunningham | 2 (2) | 1 | (1)3 (3) | 1 | ||||||
48 | MF | Abdisalam Ibrahim | 1 (1) | 1 | (0)2 (1) | |||||||
52 | FW | Alex Tchuimeni-Nimely | 1 (1) | 1 (1) | ||||||||
TOTALS | 73 | 7 | 15 | 95 | 68 | 2/1 |
Information current as of 9 May 2010 (end of season)
Last updated: 25 April 2011.
Source: (for players and positions) Season 2009-10 First Team Squad
(for squad numbers) Season 2009-10 Squad Numbers
(for actual stats.) All match reports in Competitive games section above
Goal scorers
[edit]Player | Premier League | League Cup | FA Cup | All competitions |
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Carlos Tévez | 23 | 6 | 29 | |
Emmanuel Adebayor | 14 | 14 | ||
Craig Bellamy | 10 | 1 | 11 | |
Shaun Wright-Phillips | 4 | 2 | 1 | 7 |
Martin Petrov | 4 | 1 | 5 | |
Roque Santa Cruz | 3 | 1 | 4 | |
Gareth Barry | 2 | 1 | 3 | |
Stephen Ireland | 2 | 1 | 3 | |
Micah Richards | 3 | 3 | ||
Vincent Kompany | 2 | 2 | ||
Joleon Lescott | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
Nedum Onuoha | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
Kolo Touré | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
Javier Garrido | 1 | 1 | ||
Adam Johnson | 1 | 1 | ||
Michael Johnson | 1 | 1 | ||
Benjani Mwaruwari | 1 | 1 | ||
Robinho | 1 | 1 | ||
Sylvinho | 1 | 1 | ||
Patrick Vieira | 1 | 1 | ||
Vladimir Weiss | 1 | 1 |
Information current for all games played as of 9 May 2010 (end of season)
Awards
[edit]Awarded monthly to the player that was chosen by a panel assembled by the Premier League's sponsor
Month | Player | Club |
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December [23] | Carlos Tévez | Manchester City |
Awarded monthly to four players - one in each of the Premier League plus the three divisions of the Football League - those players being the ones that receive the most votes cast for that league in a poll conducted each month on the PFA's OWS (http://www.givemefootball.com)
Month | Player | Club |
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March [24] | Carlos Tévez | Manchester City |
Awarded on a weekly basis to the Premier League or Football League team that a five-man LMA adjudication panel deems to have performed in some outstanding manner
Week ending | Awarded to | For performance in |
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5 March 2010 [25] | Manchester City | Chelsea 2 – 4 Manchester City |
Etihad Player of the Month awards
[edit]Awarded to the player in each category that receives the most votes in a poll conducted each month on the MCFC OWS
Month | First Team | Reserve Team | Academy |
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August/September [26] | Craig Bellamy | David Ball | Tom Smith |
October [27] | Martin Petrov | Donal McDermott | Omar Elabdellaoui |
November [28] | Shay Given | James Poole | Sean Tse |
December [29] | Carlos Tévez | N/A | |
January [30] | Carlos Tévez | N/A | |
February [31] | Vincent Kompany | N/A | |
March [32] | Adam Johnson | N/A | |
April [33] | Carlos Tévez | N/A |
Etihad / OSC Player of the Year awards
[edit]Player | Season 2009–10 awards [34] | Notes |
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Carlos Tévez | OSC Player of the Year | OSC = Official Supporters Club |
Dedryck Boyata | OSC Young Player of the Year | |
Carlos Tévez | Players' Player of the Year | |
Adam Johnson | Goal of the Season | Sunderland 1 – 1 Manchester City 14 March 2010 |
Craig Bellamy | Performance of the Season | Manchester United 4 – 3 Manchester City 20 September 2009 |
Shaun Wright-Phillips | Community Player of the Year |
Transfers and loans
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See also
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