Pep Guardiola faces the possibility of managing Manchester City in the Europa League next season after Manuel Pellegrini’s team were humbled by Marcus Rashford in yesterday’s derby against Manchester United at the Etihad Stadium.
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Louis van Gaal hailed Manchester United’s players for the derby win that re-ignited their top-four hopes.
I would suggest that the biggest effect these two EPL rivals van have on Arsenal’s season is in the games they still have left against us.
However I do think that United winning will spur them on to greater efforts in the fight for the fourth champions League spot and they are just five points behind us now. “We have more home matches than away and we don’t lose so much at Old Trafford – so we have a big chance”. But he is 18 years old so we have to wait and see how consistent he is.
To make things worse, City’s England goalkeeper Hart had to be taken off moments after the break, damaging his calf after rushing off his line to challenge United striker Anthony Martial following Demichelis’ poor, under-hit back pass.
Gary Lineker has taken to social media to poke fun at Manchester United and Manchester City after Sunday’s derby win for the Red Devils.
“That’s logical, I think, when you play on Thursday”.
If his lack of pace wasn’t obvious enough already, Rashford’s presence around him really showed it up – and Demichelis was lucky not to have been penalised on the stroke of half time after barging the teen to the ground in the box.
Too fast and too skilful for hapless City defender Martin Demichelis, who ended up tumbling on his backside as Rashford zoomed past, the youngster then finished with side-footed precision past Joe Hart.
With 51 points in 29 games played, Manchester City may not be able to touch the current success of Leicester who are now with 66 points on top. If you see the attitude of the team today, (it) reflects they are all involved in what we want to do. We dominated the game.
Here are the player ratings from the match.
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Conceding an early goal at home of course means you will have the bulk of play and chances after against sides like Manchester United who don’t produce a whole lot going forward on a regular basis.
