Manchester City 0 Sheffield United 0

[Beckhams]

Manchester City 0 Sheffield United 0
16th October 2006


Manchester City have yet to concede at home this season while Sheffield United have still not scored away. But that only explains half the story of a sub-standard affair at the City of Manchester Stadium yesterday.

There were two principal reasons why this game finished goalless: one was Georgios Samaras and the other Bernardo Corradi. City's hapless strikers should have scored at least once each and might even have had a hat-trick apiece. As it was, United would have been celebrating their first Premiership away win since April 1994 had either Rob Hulse's overhead kick that struck the crossbar, or Alan Quinn's powerful shot that flew narrowly over, been just a few inches lower.