It wasn’t Guardiola’s name City fans were singing at Old Trafford. When you lose a game against a good team, you want to see a better Man United team than that.” “It’s a way of losing that we don’t like. “It’s a big step backwards,” United manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer said. The gulf in quality, tactics and style looks greater, with City effortlessly cruising to victory. On paper, six points now separate defending champion City in second from United in fifth. This was City’s first Premier League win over United since March 2019 but in that time Guardiola’s side has won the title twice, while the trophy hasn’t been on the red half of Manchester since 2013.Ĭity and United do boast the world’s most expensive football squads - each assembled for more than $1 billion - but that wouldn’t be obvious watching in the lashing northern English rain. “The game was 2-0,” the City manager said, “and it was so comfortable.” It was so serene that Pep Guardiola didn’t even make a single substitution.
“We had the game of our lives,” City attacking midfielder Phil Foden said. Humiliation was avoided, two weeks after being routed 5-0 by Liverpool here, but it was another encounter to reinforce just how far United has slipped behind the Premier League’s elite.
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