Manchester (United Kingdom) (AFP) – Erling Haaland and Phil Foden scored hat-tricks as Manchester City thrashed Manchester United 6-3 to move to within a point of Premier League leaders Arsenal on Sunday. United needed Antony’s strike and a late Anthony Martial double to save them from a record defeat in the Manchester derby as they... Read more
And the Norwegian phenom made even more history on Sunday when he became the first player to score a hat-trick in three consecutive English Premier League home matches as his side dismantled its crosstown rival Manchester United 6-3 to remain second in the league. After waiting 52 years for a player to score a hat-trick... Read more
Back to the drawing board for Erik ten Hag, then! After four successive league wins, Manchester United were embarrassed by their neighbours Manchester City at the Etihad Stadium, beaten 6-3 – and it could have been even more! And though they got goals back via Antony’s stunner and a late double from substitute Anthony Martial,... Read more
Four straight Premier League wins had raised Manchester United hopes. There was a feeling that maybe Erik ten Hag, by rowing back on his Ajax principles, could make United more competitive than had seemed likely in the first two games of the season. With Rodri missing from the back of midfield and Manuel Akanji paired... Read more
Hat tricks from Erling Haaland and Phil Foden lifted Manchester City to an emphatic 6-3 win over Manchester United on Sunday in Premier League action. City were in full flow from start to finish as Bernardo Silva and Kevin de Bruyne carved the United team apart, setting up the attack to feast in the Manchester... Read more
Today is only the sixth time in Manchester United history that they have lost 6-3 and the first time since they lost to Southampton away by the same scoreline in October 1996. The home side led 4-0 at half-time and at that stage it was damage limitation for United. They added two more in the... Read more
Erik ten Hag has done well to arrest Manchester United’s rapid decline over the last 12 months and ahead of Sunday’s Manchester derby, the Dutchman has won four straight Premier League games. Ten Hag’s new signings, six of them in particular, have really helped shift the mentality from last season and now, four players have... Read more
“No Rodri and no Ruben Dias, John Stones or Aymeric Laporte. The challenge facing Manchester United is still considerable but there’s a lot of disruption there to be spine of Manchester City’s team. Rodri has become one of the game’s outstanding pivots and his absence is a blow. “Ilkay Gundogan has played there to good... Read more
The hosts are unbeaten in the current Premier League campaign with five wins and two draws. City have scored 10 goals in their last three Premier League appearances, including a 3-0 win at Wolves in their last outing and a six-goal hammering of newly promoted Nottingham Forest. Rivals Manchester United were slower out of the... Read more
The Old Trafford giants are in the midst of a rebuild in the wake of a wretched season that saw Ole Gunnar Solskjaer’s interim replacement Ralf Rangnick flounder as the side stumbled home sixth. That miserable run continued in the first two matches of Ten Hag’s reign but the United boss has overseen an impressive... Read more
