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Commentary
3¹EMANUELSON stroked a simple chance past the near post.
5¹PLASIL fired the ball through a crowd of players but STEKELENBURG was a match for it as he dived to his right.
9¹GOAL!! A long goal-kick from IRAOLA caught the Ajax defence square and PLASIL raced through to easily score. (1-0 Manchester City)
16¹VAN DER WIEL beat two Manchester City players and thundered a great chance just wide.
22¹The referee yellow cards LUPOLI.
27¹MARCELLIS headed wide.
27¹An exceptional strike from PLASIL was dealt with by a useful parry from STEKELENBURG.
30¹GOAL!! HUNTELAAR dribbled forward, looked up and fired a shot into the Manchester City net. (1-1)
35¹GOAL!! A swerving inswinging corner was headed in at the near post by HUNTELAAR. (2-1 Ajax)
36¹DE JONG's shot was well saved by the 'keeper.
37¹SNEIJDER made space on the left and dragged the ball to IAQUINTA who fired the ball wide.
37¹A poor strike from CRESPO trickled agonisingly wide.
38¹GOAL!! After a good build-up VALENCIA drove a low shot past the 'keeper. (2-2)
1²A corner bobbled toward HUNTELAAR who flicked the ball just wide.
6²GOAL!! A Ajax counter-attack allowed IAQUINTA to setup EMANUELSON with a simple goal. (3-2 Ajax)
9²Uncertainty in the Manchester City defence enabled EMANUELSON to volley an effort wide.
11²WIJNALDUM rushed an easy chance.
14²GOAL!! Ajax's DE JONG beat three defenders before firing just inside the Manchester City 'keeper's far post. (4-2 Ajax)
16²The hapless 'keeper stared in disbelief as a backpass from IRAOLA fell just wide.
18²A penalty box scramble resulted in PLASIL driving a low shot over.
21²IAQUINTA beat IRAOLA and drove the ball to VAN DER WIEL who hit his effort wide.
42²CROUCH shot over.

 
Manchester City
 
League position: 16
Home league form: LLLL
Overall league form: LLXLXLLL
Formation: 4-3-3
Line-ups
Hilario NAVARRO5 15½Maarten STEKELENBURG
Andoni IRAOLA6½26½Gregory VAN DER WIEL
Tim DE CLER6½37½Robbert SCHILDER
Jaroslav PLASIL6½47½Wesley SNEIJDER(c)
David ROZEHNAL6½57 Dirk MARCELLIS
MELLI6 66 Hedwiges MADURO
Antonio VALENCIA6 77 Siem DE JONG
Martin JØRGENSEN6½87½Urby EMANUELSON
(p)Peter CROUCH7 96½Klaas-Jan HUNTELAAR(p)
(c,f)Hernán CRESPO6 107½Nigel DE JONG(f)
Arturo LUPOLI5½117 Vincenzo IAQUINTA
Manager
Emiliano INSÚA  12  Nicky HOFS
DARLEY Ramon  13  Ulrich RAMÉ
JUANITO  147½Georginio WIJNALDUM
Claude MAKÉLÉLÉ  15  Jeremain LENS
 16  Markus ROSENBERG
 
Ajax
 
League position: 5
Away league form: WWWL
Overall league form: WWWWWLXW
Formation: 4-3-3

Statistics
Manchester City 2 Ajax 4
(Half-time: 2-2, Attendance: 35,335, Stadium: City of Manchester, Referee: Vaclav Krondl 6)

Plasil 9¹, Valencia 38¹
Scorers
Substitutions
Sent off
Bookings
Corners
Fouls
Offsides
Shots on
Shots off
Total shots
Shots saved
Possession
Huntelaar 30¹, Huntelaar 35¹, Emanuelson 6², de Jong 14²
 HuntelaaróWijnaldum 8²
  
Lupoli 22¹ 
42
92
32
45
711
1116
21
42%58%
Man of the match: Nigel de Jong