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Commentary
0¹SANTA CRUZ's shot beat the Manchester City 'keeper but rebounded off the Manchester City crossbar.
7¹VIÐARSSON touched the ball through a crowd of players but ABBONDANZIERI was a match for it as he dived to his left.
10¹MARKOV yellow cards WILHELMSSON for an off-the-ball incident against SMITH.
17¹A penalty box meleé resulted in KEWELL tapping the ball wide.
20¹GOAL!! On the left wing MORIMOTO collected a defender's clearance and hit it into the goalmouth for CARDOZO to slip it over the line. (1-0 Manchester City)
24¹SANTA CRUZ shot wide.
26¹GOAL!! A long range effort was deflected into the path of CARDOZO who lashed the ball past the helpless Plymouth Argyle 'keeper. (2-0 Manchester City)
35¹BARNETTA flicked a simple chance past the far post.
42¹CARDOZO was put clear by MARCOS SENNA and he turned DUDEK but thrust his shot over the bar.
43¹SERGIO beat two Manchester City players and thundered an effort just beyond the near post.
1²GOAL!! A Manchester City counter-attack allowed SMITH to setup MORIMOTO with an easy goal. (3-0 Manchester City)
4²KEWELL waltzed past FRIEDRICH and rifled a poor shot wide.
7²BARNETTA headed just wide.
14²VAN BUYTEN ran onto a delightful ball from FOTI but fired his effort wide of the goal.
15²A shot from VIÐARSSON was booted off the line by MATHIJSEN.
16²FOTI made space on the left and touched the ball to FRIEDRICH who rasped the ball over.
19²GOAL!! A delightful dummy from WILHELMSSON allowed MIGUEL to lay a exceptional ball off to SANTA CRUZ who glanced the ball over the line. (3-1 Manchester City)
28²A cross from SERGIO left KEWELL in plenty of space but he fluffed his shot.
31²A weak strike from KEWELL bounced agonisingly wide.
32²Uncertainty in the Manchester City defence enabled BARNETTA to hit an effort just beyond the near post.
36²SMITH beat RAÚL BRAVO and fired the ball to CARDOZO who fumbled his effort wide.
37²A shot from VIÐARSSON seemed a certain goal but ABBONDANZIERI managed to palm the ball away.
43²An inswinging corner was nodded into the arms of ABBONDANZIERI by WILHELMSSON.
44²MIGUEL fluffed a simple chance.

 
Plymouth Argyle
 
League position: 4
Home league form: XWWW
Overall league form: WXLWWWWL
Formation: 4-3-3
Line-ups
(c)Jerzy DUDEK5½15½Roberto ABBONDANZIERI
Luís MIGUEL7½28 Arne FRIEDRICH
RAÚL BRAVO Sanfelix6½36½Daniel VAN BUYTEN
SERGIO González8 47 MARCOS Antônio SENNA(c)
Matthew UPSON8 57 Luis PEREA
Richard DUNNE6 66½Joris MATHIJSEN
Tranquillo BARNETTA7½77½Alan SMITH
Harry KEWELL6 87 Neri CARDOZO
(p)Roque SANTA CRUZ7 96½Takayuki MORIMOTO(p)
(f)Arnar VIÐARSSON7 106 Salvatore FOTI(f)
Christian WILHELMSSON6 117 JÚLIO César BAPTISTA
Manager
Tom DE MUL  12  Kazenga LUA-LUA
Maik TAYLOR  13  Lukasz FABIANSKI
Andy TODD  14  Khalid BOULAHROUZ
Pavel MARES  15  Francesco BOLZONI
David PRUTTON  16  Elliot OMOZUSI
 
Manchester City
 
League position: 22
Away league form: XLWW
Overall league form: WXLLLLLW
Formation: 4-3-3

Statistics
Plymouth Argyle 1 Manchester City 3
(Half-time: 0-2, Attendance: 27,440, Stadium: Home Park, Referee: Goran Markov 6)

Santa Cruz 19²
Scorers
Substitutions
Sent off
Bookings
Corners
Fouls
Offsides
Shots on
Shots off
Total shots
Shots saved
Possession
Cardozo 20¹, Cardozo 26¹, Morimoto 1²
  
  
Wilhelmsson 10¹ 
34
47
45
63
104
167
30
53%47%
Man of the match: Arne Friedrich