Nothing separates United and City heading into the 172nd Manchester derby, after both clubs won their opening three Premier League fixtures before the global break.
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City have won three times and drew one in their last five top flight meetings with United at Old Trafford.
Despite Saturday’s face-off between Manchester United and Manchester City boasting some of the finest footballers that the Premier League has ever seen, all eyes are likely to be focused on the touchline. Rebecca Lowe hosts Premier League Live, joined by former Major League Soccer and U.S. Men’s National Team midfielder Kyle Martino and former Jamaican National Team Player Robbie Earle.
Guardiola, like Mourinho, has enjoyed a ideal start to the season with maximum points from three games and, more importantly to him, has his team playing “attractive” possession-based football.
Accordingly, we at FootballFanCast are incredibly excited for the Manchester Derby… but how would things be different if Guardiola and Mourinho donned opposite dugouts for Saturday’s 12.30pm kick-off?
“He was okay at Bayern Munich. I have to say he was okay”, he added. “The two teams arrive to this game having taken good results and after making wholesale changes in every sense”, the 30-year-old told Spanish radio station Cope. For a player it is like a motivation to have a trainer that gets the best of you.
Guardiola was in charge of Barcelona and Mourinho was at the helm of Real Madrid – and the pair didn’t go on.
Pep comes in with an incredible reputation.
Bravo’s potential bow has not been lost on Ibrahimovic, who on Wednesday posted a video on social media of himself sending some kit to City’s new man along with the message: ‘Welcome to Manchester!
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“So the philosophy goes to “I want to have so much possession that at some point we’ll score a goal from that, the goals will come from possession” and that’s his philosophy. He was very lucky he had the players at Barcelona but he was clever in what he did”.
