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Match report
English Footie
Championship: Round 40 (setup 1, season 30)
Rochdale
v.
Manchester City
Formation:
4-3-3
League position:
14
Overall form:
Home form:
Nestor 'Fernando' MUSLERA Fernando1António Alberto Bastos Pimparel, BETO
Formation:
4-3-3
League position:
22
Overall form:
Home form:
JOÃO Pedro da Silva PEREIRA27Mauricio Anibal ISLA
ADRIANO Correia Claro837GABRIEL Moisés Antunes da SILVA
Jérémy TOULALAN74Sebastian LARSSON
DAVID COSTAS Cordal5Luca CALDIROLA
Dennis AOGO766Rodrigo ELY
Wesley SNEIJDER77Ezequiel Matias SCHELOTTO
Gervais Yao Kouassi, GERVINHO786Luca CRECCO
Samuel ETO'O Fils696Giampaolo PAZZINI
Jan KIRCHHOFF7106Glenn MURRAY
Aleksandr KERZHAKOV7116Antonio FLORO FLORES
Manager
Vurnon ANITA12Francesco LODI
Josh LILLIS13Marco AMELIA
Darko LAZOVIC14Björn VLEMINCKX
Rafael VAN DER VAART15Aaron LENNON
Clément GRENIER16Jonathan DOUGLAS

Rochdale 2 Manchester City 1
(Half-time: 1-1, Attendance: 41,759, Stadium: Spotland, Referee: Fred GRAHAM 6, TV: highlights)
2 Adriano, 90+1 João PereiraScorers37 Pazzini
Substitutions
Sendings off
47 Eto'oBookings12 Floro Flores
5Corners5
3Fouls8
3Offsides2
2Shots on3
11Shots off9
13Total shots12
0Shots saved2
50%Possession50%
Man of the match: ADRIANO Correia Claro
2GOAL!! ADRIANO brought the ball forward, glanced up and fired a shot into the Manchester City net. (1-0 Rochdale)
3PAZZINI blasted a looping shot just beyond the far post from twenty yards out.
4A penalty box meleé resulted in KERZHAKOV cracking the ball over.
8A useful ball from KERZHAKOV on the right fell to GERVINHO who mishit his shot over.
12FLORO FLORES booked.
14An exceptional effort from GERVINHO scraped the top of the crossbar.
18GERVINHO ran onto a wonderful ball from SNEIJDER but hit his effort wide.
19GERVINHO waltzed past CALDIROLA and stroked a tame shot over.
21AOGO headed inches over.
28A pin-point pass was collected by SCHELOTTO and his looping shot went narrowly wide.
33LARSSON floated the ball to FLORO FLORES who flicked it inches wide.
36A free-kick from SNEIJDER floated inches wide.
37GOAL!! A shot from PAZZINI which the 'keeper managed to claw away was deemed over the line and GRAHAM awarded the goal. (1-1)
40A poor strike from ETO'O bounced agonisingly wide.
 
47The referee books ETO'O.
49FLORO FLORES made space on the right and dragged the ball to CRECCO who rasped the ball wide.
61SCHELOTTO rushed through the Rochdale defence but shot straight at the Rochdale 'keeper.
66A mix up in the Manchester City defence enabled KIRCHHOFF to hit an effort over.
71The hapless Rochdale 'keeper could only watch as a backpass from GERVINHO fell just over.
76CRECCO kicked the ball wide from just inside the area.
81A cross from CRECCO left GABRIEL SILVA in plenty of space but he rushed his shot.
90+1GOAL!! A shot from JOÃO PEREIRA flew through a ruck of players and trickled past the unsighted 'keeper. (2-1 Rochdale)