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| Nick Barmby celebrates his second goal |
Manchester City's first defence of their championship came away at Middlesbrough, who were enjoying their first season back in the Premier League.
It started well for City when on the quarter hour, Georgi Kinkladze embarked on one of his trademark mazy runs to give the Citizens the lead.
Boro equalised 20 minutes later when City failed to deal with a low cross that ran through to Nick Barmby at the back post.
Middlesbrough took the lead in the second half when Phil Stamp done his own Kinkladze impression, weaving through the Man City defence.
Then Boro' hit City on the counter-attack, Jan-Aage Fjortoft crossed and Nick Barmby headed it in for his second of the game.
The scoring was completed in the 74th minute when City goalkeeper Eike Immel failed to hold on to Stamp's long range effort and everyone's favourite little Brazilian Juninho was on hand to score the rebound.
Life was good at the Riverside and now they had the Unofficial English Championship.
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