Everton 2 - 1 Manchester City

Everton 2-1 Man City

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Moyes took Everton from fourth bottom to fourth in the space of a year.

Scoring Summary
Everton	Manchester City
Tim Cahill (22)	Robbie Fowler (42)
Marcus Bent (63)

Match Stats
	Everton	Manchester City
Shots (on Goal)	9(6)	10(6)
Fouls	14	21
Corner Kicks	4	4
Offsides	2	1
Time of Possession	51%	49%
Yellow Cards	1	2
Red Cards	0	1
Saves	4	7

Match Information

Stadium: Goodison Park, England Attendance: 40,530 Match Time: 15:00 UK Official(s): P Dowd (Referee)

Teams
Everton	Manchester City
25 Nigel Martyn	1 David James
2 Steve Watson	18 Danny Mills
3 Alessandro Pistone	22 Richard Dunne
22 Tony Hibbert	5 Sylvain Distin
4 Alan Stubbs	41 Stephen Jordan
5 David Weir	29 Shaun Wright-Phillips
17 Tim Cahill	26 Paul Bosvelt
26 Lee Carsley	10 Antoine Sibierski
16 Thomas Gravesen	11 Jonathan Macken
14 Kevin Kilbane	8 Robbie Fowler
7 Marcus Bent	39 Nicolas Anelka
Substitutes
1 Richard Wright	Ronald Waterreus 21
15 Gary Naysmith	Willo Flood 44
20 Joseph Yobo	Nedum Onuoha 16
11 James McFadden	Christian Negouai 30
10 Duncan Ferguson	Joey Barton 24
Substitutions
Duncan Ferguson for Steve Watson (73)	Nedum Onuoha for Danny Mills (80)
Joseph Yobo for Thomas Gravesen (81)	Christian Negouai for Jonathan Macken (80)
James McFadden for Marcus Bent (90)
Yellow Cards
Thomas Gravesen (74)	Robbie Fowler (43)
	Danny Mills (73)
Red Cards
	Christian Negouai (83)
· Club Squads: Everton | Manchester City

Updated: December 29, 2004, 10:15 PM UK

The home side opened the scoring after 31 minutes through Owen Coyle's close-range header.

The visitors should have equalised within three minutes but Brian McLoughlin fluffed his lines on two occasions.

Queen of the South looked more threatening after the restart but were guilty of profligacy all game.

South were made to pay 16 minutes from time when Alan Gow's classy curling finish confirmed a home win.