Man United 2-1 Man City (Dec 15, 2024) Game Analysis

Manchester United poured on the distress for flagging Premier League champions Manchester Metropolis as late targets by Bruno Fernandes and Amad Diallo snatched an unlikely 2-1 away victory from the jaws of defeat on Sunday.

Ruben Amorim’s first Manchester derby regarded like ending in a 3rd successive league defeat after Josko Gvardiol’s header put Metropolis forward however Ivory Coast teen Diallo tuned the sport on its head in beautiful trend.

Diallo was fouled by Metropolis’s Matheus Nunes after latching onto a dreadful again go by the identical participant with Fernandes stroking house the penalty within the 88th minute.

Metropolis had hardly obtained over that shock when seconds later it turned the “Diallo Derby” as he despatched the visiting followers into delirium with an outstanding end from the tightest of angles.

What was initially a worrying droop in kind by champions Metropolis has now snowballed right into a full-on nightmare earlier than Christmas for Pep Guardiola’s facet as they’ve now misplaced eight of their final 11 video games in all competitions, profitable one.

They keep fifth within the desk with 27 factors from 16 video games, 9 factors behind leaders Liverpool having performed a sport extra.

United stay within the backside half with 22 factors however will hope their smash-and-grab raid at The Etihad Stadium will spark a transfer up the desk in the course of the festive interval.

Fernandes breathed a sigh of aid after the sport, having missed a gilt-edged likelihood to equalise shortly earlier than Diallo lit the touch-paper for United’s beautiful win.

“He is been doing effectively, he is been doing nice issues, I feel there’s nonetheless so much to return from him … When he is like this, he is unstoppable,” the Portuguese midfielder mentioned.

Metropolis didn’t even muster a shot heading in the right direction within the second half as they regarded barely recognisable from the facet that has received 4 successive Premier League crowns.

Midfielder Bernardo Silva made no try to sugar-coat a gut-wrenching loss.

“We completely deserved what occurred,” he instructed Sky Sports activities. “In minute 87 in a derby and you might be profitable 1-0 and have a nook and the ball finally ends up as a penalty for them, if you happen to make these silly selections you should pay for that.”

Neither facet began the sport brimming with any fluency after bleak current outcomes and United didn’t have a shot heading in the right direction earlier than the interval.

Amorim flexed his muscle mass forward of kick-off, leaving Marcus Rashford and Alejandro Garnacho out of his matchday squad and he was then pressured to make an early swap as Mason Mount hobbled off after 14 minutes to get replaced by Kobbie Mainoo.

It took 20 minutes for Metropolis to muster a shot at purpose as Phil Foden’s half-volley went broad whereas on the different finish Diallo struck the submit with a shot however was offside anyway.

Metropolis’s followers had been changing into stressed however the pressure lifted across the stadium within the thirty sixth minute when, from a brief nook, De Bruyne’s cross was deflected and dropped invitingly for Gvardiol to information a header previous André Onana.

It was the eighth purpose United have conceded from a nook this season, a determine solely topped by Wolverhampton Wanderers.

Tempers boiled over quickly afterwards as Metropolis’s Kyle Walker and Rasmus Højlund got here collectively like two rutting stags and Walker fell theatrically to the bottom, incomes each gamers yellow playing cards after a melee involving a number of extra.

Højlund later posted on Instagram: “Manchester is pink Violets are blue What an excellent efficiency However the Oscar goes to…”

Metropolis had been unusually subdued after the break however nonetheless regarded like taking the factors, particularly after Fernandes dinked a golden likelihood broad after being performed by means of.

However Metropolis’s world collapsed round them when Nunes’s horrible again go was seized upon by Diallo and Nunes desperately tried to make amends however merely hacked Diallo down.

Fernandes tucked away the penalty however worse was nonetheless to return for the hosts as Diallo sprinted by means of, cleverly dinked the ball round goalkeeper Éderson after which noticed his shot dissect two protecting defenders earlier than nestling within the internet.

“The second half, we pressed good, we needed to win, that is the derby … we confirmed at this time we will win each sport and we’re very completely satisfied to win at this time,” mentioned Diallo. “I wish to thank God for this. Let’s get pleasure from it for at this time and deal with the subsequent sport.”