The 177th Derby of Manchester kicked off with a remembrance ceremony. A rude awakening for away fans, starting XI without gutsy Pogba, injured in game against Turin.
The game that ended 3-1 in favour of Man City courtesy goals of Silva, Aguero and Gundogan left away fans helpless, emotionally crashed and agonizingly back to home.
A consolation goal for United off Martial’s boot may not have been worthy of gaining points but made the Frenchman only 7th United player to score in 5 consecutive games.
With only 11 minutes down, City whacked ball past vulnerable De Gea who could not possibly find his body in way of Silva’s shot that was created of a left flank run from Sterling to lurk the ball past everyone aside Bernardo Silva who not only kept the ball in play of far post but also tapped it into his namesake David who ceased the passing strokes.
A real threat down the left, City did not possibly carve out any considerate chance of tallying the scoreline to two.
As for United, half whistle was their only hope to with a faith to pounce back harder in second half, as they always do atleast for last three games.
Sergio Aguero doubled the lead just three minutes into the second half, playing one-two with Riyad Mahrez before powering past David De Gea.
A far too easy goal for Kun and a lowly effort from De Gea.
Expecting a comeback, Mourinho shuffled his troop bringing in Lukaku, Sanchez and Mata. The Belgian giant took his first touch to cast an impact, falling of the ground of Ederson’s meekest touch & winning a spot kick.
There stood Martial, confident, in-form and man to deliver with his icy brain into right bottom corner of post.
Decreasing the deficit to one and taking his tally to 5 goals of five, Martial gave fans a sense of comeback to breathe a setback.
Was it too late to score in 57th minute or was City’s defence too strong to let opponents fancy more shots on target?
Letting go of possession, United lost all hopes & shows allowing Gundogan a free tap into nets in 84th minute that was more built by team City with 44 pass move.
Ruthless were City in their home win after 4 years against a team that was off the track from start.
