Phil Foden fired Manchester City into an early lead in Sunday’s derby against Manchester United at the Etihad Stadium....CONTINUE READING
Pep Guardiola’s reigning Premier League champions started aggressively and Foden darted into the United box unmarked to convert Bernardo Silva’s low eighth-minute cross.
City are without key midfielder Rodri due to a calf injury. Marcus Rashford has overcome a hamstring problem to start for United.
The Sporting News is following the match live and providing live score updates and commentary.
Man City vs. Man United live score
1H 2H Final
Man City 4 — —
Man United 0 — —
Goals:
CITY — Phil Foden (Bernardo Silva) — 8th min.
CITY — Erling Haaland (Kevin De Bruyne) — 34th min.
CITY — Erling Haaland (Kevin De Bruyne) — 37th min.
Man City vs. Man United live updates, highlights from 188th Manchester derby
45th minute+1: Sky Sports are showing United fans leaving the stadium. Alex Ferguson is in the stands looking like he’d quite relish giving the team talk Ten Hag is about to tackle.
44th minute: GOOOOAAAALLL!!!! Foden!!!!
Luscious, ludicrous, liquid football from Manchester City. United’s threat on the counter-attack was supposed to be a factor today and they’ve been ripped apart by one. De Bruyne threads it down the left for Haaland, who arrows a ball back across goal for Foden to finish.
42nd minute: Haaland into space, finds Grealish. Strangely, the master poacher doesn’t appear to be expecting the return pass and prods wide.
40th minute: Sergio Gomez is on for Walker, with Cancelo switching to right-back. If the game was more in the balance, Guardiola probably would not allow himself the luxury of throwing on the Spain Under-21 international.
39th minute: Fernandes thumps a shot from 30 yards. Ederson catches it. City fans guffaw. In news that will amuse them less, Walker’s afternoon appears to be done.
37th minute: GOOOOAAAALLLLL!!!! Haaland!!!!
Make that 16! De Bruyne strides through midfield. He’s sort of in that right channel he likes but it’s still a pass he has no right to make. Varane, who left the pitch and returned to the eye of a hurricane can do nothing as Haaland slides in behind him to extend City’s lead.
36th minute: Kyle Walker is off the field after an awkward landing. City will hope there’s nothing serious there. That was Haaland’s 15th goal of the season, by the way. It’s October 2. Entirely normal behaviour.
34th minute: GOOOAAAALLLLL!!!!! Haaland!!!!
One of the things to recommend about this United display was they were keeping Haaland quiet. Ah, well. Varane was off the field for treatment when De Bruyne’s corner came in. Perhaps he’d have dealt with Haaland. A combination of Eriksen (!) and McTominay certainly didn’t and his near-post header was over the line before Malacia intervened.
32nd minute: Foden spanks a shot that leaves Varane down on the ground. Grealish skips past the besieged Dalot and De Gea saves well. The United keeper then tips over a long-ranger from De Bruyne.
30th minute: A rare period of controlled possession in City territory for United. The ball is worked out to Antony, whose cross to the back post scoots out for a goal kick.
28th minute: Fernandes pressers rabidly after Walker strokes a pass across the City defence to Ake, who has to go all the way back to Ederson. No real danger that time, but that’s definitely something United are looking to pounce on.
23rd minute: McTominay plays an utterly honking pass straight to Grealish. He dribbles into the United box and McTominay is one of the crisis management team that manages to avert the danger. Rashford then takes his turn to give the ball straight back to City, Foden runs Malacia and both United full-backs are now on yellow cards.
21st minute: Foden inches away from his second. Silva enjoys himself down the United left again. His cross doesn’t reach Haaland but causes panic anyway. Foden lashes just beyond the top corner. Guardiola thinks he should have done better.
20th minute: De Bruyne’s cutback is cleared out of the six yard box by Martinez with Haaland lurking.
18th minute: Off the post! Gundogan launches a sumptuous effort, curling around the outside of the United wall. De Gea is a spectator as the ball cannons away off his left upright.
17th minute: Grealish is swaggering his way through the opening stages. He dribbles inside and draws a crude foul from Martinez. De Bruyne and Gundogan like the look of this one on the edge of the D.
16th minute: More slack work at the back from City, but that allows Akanji to dump Rashford on the seat of his shorts, much to the delight of the locals.
15th minute: An untimely slip by Walker gives United half an opening. Sancho finds Eriksen, whose shot under pressure from Gundogan is easily gathered by Ederson.
13th minute: Rashford goes hearing off behind the City backline but Ederson is out in a flash to clear.
12th minute: Dalot, who is on thin ice, gets one-twoed by Grealish and conceded a free-kick in a dangerous position. United get the ball clear as much by accident as by design.
11th minute: Fernandes tries to fashion a United response and finds Rashford. His first touch lets him down and Gundogan gets back to hack clear with his first telling piece of defensive work in this deeper role.
8th minute: GOOOAAAALLLLL!!!!! Foden!!!!!!
The Manchester man makes the breakthrough on derby day. That passage of play began with Grealish playing a horrible pass across halfway. Akanji had to tidy up by winning a 50-50 on Sancho. There was no such decisive defending from United as Foden darted into the area unaccompanied to emphatically finish Silva’s cross. That’s his 49th City goal and first in the derby.
6th minute: Silva gets down the left again amid suspicions of offside. Grealish tries to fashion a one-two with Haaland but the return pass goes out for a goalkick.
3rd minute: Somehow City don’t lead. Grealish slips a pass beyond the now compromised Dalot. Silva hangs up a cross for Haaland, his header is blocked, De Gea thwarts De Bruyne from the rebound and Silva has his own strike blocked in the goalmouth.
2nd minute: Well, that’s daft. The second foul of the game sees Diogo Dalot get himself a very early yellow card for blundering into Jack Grealish on the left.
1st minute: A first touch for Haaland, if anyone’s playing that game. The City striker drags Varane back into his own half and wins a freekick.
1 min from kickoff: Blue Moon now being belted out, final formalities being attended to. Both teams are wearing black armbands following the football stadium tragedy earlier today in Indonesia.
5 mins from kickoff: The teams are in the tunnel and noise is rumbling around the Etihad Stadium. It’s almost time.
15 mins from kickoff: Our man Joe Wright is at the ground today. He’s complaining about the bright clothes the young people are wearing.
20 mins from kickoff: Dias joined City two years ago this week. He has been a transformative signing and Guardiola’s decision to bench him will get plenty of post-match focus if United are triumphant. But the Portugal international is not playing at the imperious level that saw him quickly become City’s defensive leader, while Akanji and Ake have both been in fine form. Additionally, a lot of pace against this United forward line when there is Rodri for screening cover makes sense. Even so, file Guardiola’s picks for his starting centre-backs under “big call”.
40 mins from kickoff: It’s certainly an early plus for Ten Hag that all the pre-game talk centres on the City XI. He has the luxury of being able to field a winning team once again with the minimum of fuss. Among other things, that shows he has quickly won the argument over Ronaldo’s reduced role. Still, it would be a brave person who bets against CR7 coming off the bench to make an impact if this one remains in the balance with 20 minutes to go.
1 hour from kickoff: That’s confirmed then, no Rodri for City. Perhaps more intriguingly, Ruben Dias is only on the bench alongside the returning Aymeric Laporte, with Nathan Ake partnering Manuel Akanji at centre-back.
United are unchanged from their previous Premier League outing against Arsenal four weeks ago. That means Marcus Rashford is fit to start
1 hr 5 mins from kickoff: Gary Neville has suggested were about to get something spectacular from the Pep Guardiola Teamsheet Tombola
1 hr 10 mins from kickoff: The all-important team news will be with us in about 10 minutes. Jack Grealish has been spotted doing some pre-match media duties, so he’s starting for the hosts. One reason for that might be the seeming absence of Rodri from the City squad that got off the team coach a few moments ago. If the Spain international is out, expect Ilkay Gundogan to slot into his role at the base of midfield, with Grealish and Phil Foden flanking Haaland in attack.
1 hr 30 mins from kickoff: It’s tricky to know quite what to expect from United today, largely because they haven’t played a Premier League game for almost a month. They turned their form around very impressively following a dismal start to life under Erik ten Hag, winning four in succession. That run includes home wins over Liverpool and Arsenal but
1 hr 40 mins from kickoff: Here we go then. The big one in Manchester. City’s title defence has started without them completely hitting top gear but avoiding the sort of turbulence that has beset expected challengers Liverpool and Chelsea. Then there is Erling Haaland plundering goals all over the place and relishing his first taste of this fixture.
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Man City vs. Man United lineups
John Stones suffered a hamstring injury playing for England against Germany on Monday and misses out. Aymeric Laporte is back on the bench following knee surgery, with Nathan Ake preferred to Ruben Dias to partner Manuel Akanji at centre-back.
Rodri is the standout absentee for City due to a calf problem, with Ilkay Gundogan filling in at the base of midfield.
Man City projected lineup (4-3-3): Ederson (GK) — Walker, Akanji, Dias, Cancelo — De Bruyne, Rodri, Silva — Foden, Haaland, Grealish.
Marcus Rashford netted twice in the Arsenal win before being withdrawn due to a hamstring injury. However, the England forward is back in training and available to start, meaning only a place on the bench for Cristiano Ronaldo.
Ronaldo is joined among the substitutes by Facundo Pellistri, who makes a Premier League squad for the first time. Harry Maguire (knee) is out.
Man United projected lineup (4-2-3-1): De Gea (GK) — Dalot, Varane, Martinez, Malacia — McTominay, Eriksen — Antony, Fernandes, Sancho — Rashford.
Man City vs. Man United TV channel, live stream
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TV channel Sky Sports Main Event/Sky Sports Premier League — — —
Streaming Sky Sports website/Sky GO Peacock FuboTV Canada Optus Sports
UK: Sky Sports Main Event and Sky Sports Premier League will show Manchester City vs. Manchester United live. The game is also available to subscribers via the pay-TV broadcaster’s website and app.
USA: The match will be exclusively carried on NBC streaming platform Peacock for U.S.-based subscribers.
Canada: FuboTV is also your destination for the Manchester derby in Canada.
Australia: Fans in Australia can watch the game via Optus Sports.
