| Manchester City | Blackburn Rovers | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GK | David James | GK | Brad Friedel | ||
| DR | Sun Jihai | DR | Lucas Neill | ||
| DR | Michael Tarnat | DR | Markus Babbel | ||
| DR | Sylvain Distin | DR | Vratislav Gresko | ||
| DR | Richard Dunne | DR | Nils-Eric Johansson | ||
| MD | Joey Barton | MD | Garry Flitcroft | ||
| MD | Paul Bosvelt | MD | Tugay Kerimoglu | ||
| MD | Antoine Sibierski | MD | Jonathan Douglas | ||
| S2 | AM | Trevor Sinclair | AM | Brett Emerton | |
| S1 | FD | Jon Macken | FD | Andy Cole | |
| FD | Nicolas Anelka | FD | Dwight Yorke | ||
| Substitute | Substitute | ||||
| S1 | WR | Shaun Wright-Phillips | |||
| S2 | MD | Danny Tiatto | |||
| Manager | Manager | ||||
| Kevin Keegan | Graeme Souness | ||||