Plus, after they lost to Liverpool midweek in the UEFA Champions League 3-0, it was important to bring confidence levels up. After the capitulation at Anfield on Wednesday, this is the last thing they needed. “We have a good chance to finish second now, we needed points to make sure we could do that and we managed to get them in the most hard place, the stadium where no one else in the league has managed to win this season”.
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City were up 2-0 at the interval courtesy of Vincent Kompany and Ilkay Gundogan, and Pep Guardiola’s pacesetters were unfortunate not to be further ahead following the opening half. The team of Pep Guardiola thought to secure the match but in the 2nd half, the calculation was messed up.
The French global stood in front of the City fans doing the same gesture 24 hours later in celebration of by a distance his most significant contribution since United paid a then-world record £89 million (RM484.9million) to bring him back to the club from Juventus in 2016.
The title celebrations had already started at the Etihad Stadium.
In the end, United held out for the victory, making a statement and denying City the satisfaction of beating their archrivals for the title. “Like all the season, I like to be with them and nothing else”. Take Roy Keane vs Juventus, or Wayne Rooney with his overhead kick vs Manchester City, or Robin van Persie throughout the 2012-13 season. He drove United on his shoulders and nearly single-handedly saved them from the cusp of humiliation. But De Bruyne, Jesus and Aguero’s influence on the game was not enough to salvage anything from this derby.
Yes, Manchester has been blue this season, but last night, the city was definitely red as the traditional heavyweights gave the upstarts a reality check and dented their aura of invincibility.
He did not dominate the first half and one did not need to be a social media obsessive to imagine the abuse being directed at British football’s most expensive player. In the 5th minutes of the match, David Silva passed a ball but unexpectedly it was touched by Young into the box and City applied for penalty but referee did not give the sign.
For a player who’s made only four completive appearances for United this campaign, it seems Carrick still has a telling influence in the dressing room.
In fact, United under the guidance of Mourinho had never come back from two goals down. United won the game with two goals from Pogba and one from Smalling who redeemed himself after his aforementioned mistake.
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“Every time they arrived they scored a goal”.
