Manchester City vs Manchester United: Official Matchday Thread - 2nd October @ 2.00pm

Man United - Last 5 games:
Arsenal - Leicester - Southampton - Liverpool - Brentford

Manchester City - Last 5 games:
Wolves - Aston Villa - Notts Forest - Crystal Palace - Newcastle

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[SIZE="5"]Team News:

[SIZE="4"]Man United:
Out: Maguire
Doubts: Rashford, Martial

[SIZE="4"] Man City:
Out: John Stones, Kalvin Phillips
Doubts: Aymeric Laporte (returning from injury)

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[SIZE="4"]Previous Fixture:

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[SIZE="4"]Match Tit Bits

A defeat today will be our third consecutive league defeat against the bitters.

We’ve lost 17 Premier League games against City, only losing more against Liverpool (18) and Chelsea (18) since the start of the Premier League.

The away team in the Manchester Derby has won a total of 21 times in previous Premier League meetings. No fixture has been won by the away team more often in Premier League history.

We have won our last four league games after having lost the previous 4 before this current winning run. We last won 5 consecutive league games in April 2021 while under the management of

It’s predicted that at the time of kick-off there will be enough plastic inside the Etihad to suffocate every living creature in the ocean 5 times over.

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[SIZE="4"]vBet Thread

Bit nervous about this. Couldn’t have come at a worse time after a month off and reality is that if Halland had played for three of the last four teams we’ve beaten we’d have lost.

4-1 City

"Pep" will probably start Kompany up front.

4-0 United

Manchester United predicted XI: 
De Gea;
Dalot, Varane, Martinez, Malacia;
The Scottish Player, Eriksen;
Antony, Fernandes, Sancho;
Rashford.

I hope MU wins 0 - 1.

Me too Peter, me too.

Originally Posted by Peter13

Manchester United predicted XI: 
De Gea;
Dalot, Varane, Martinez, Malacia;
The Scottish Player, Eriksen;
Antony, Fernandes, Sancho;
Rashford.

I hope MU wins 0 - 1.

Thanks Peter.

I nominate you to be on match thread duty from now on. I think we’d all prefer that.

Man City 1 - 3 Manchester Utd
Antony to look far more settled and score.

Originally Posted by NedKelly

Thanks Peter.

I nominate you to be on match thread duty from now on. I think we’d all prefer that.

Man City 1 - 3 Manchester Utd
Antony to look far more settled and score.

Seconded.

I’m all for knowing what’s happening 25 minutes after it’s happened 👍

2-1 United

I think we'll score at least two but will need three to get a result. City concede a lot of goals.

Got a good feeling about today. Bookies ain't giving us much of a chance.

Got to start playing Casameiro now.

Originally Posted by believe

Bit nervous about this. Couldn’t have come at a worse time after a month off and reality is that if Halland had played for three of the last four teams we’ve beaten we’d have lost.

A new level of doom that

We’re now trying to talk down our actual wins by claiming that we would have been beaten if the teams we played had different players

Anyway, 3-2 United

2-0 or 3-1 City with Haaland scoring all of them.

Don't think there will be a lot of goals, happily take a 0-0 or a 1-1

Originally Posted by armchair

I think we'll score at least two but will need three to get a result. City concede a lot of goals.

This. Think we’re gonna need 3 to get anything.

2-1 to us.

£#%&! off citeh

Originally Posted by Dr Stranger

This. Think we’re gonna need 3 to get anything.

Probably be good thing if we had a striker that could score goals.

It’s easily our biggest problem now. Who’s scoring 3 goals for us? Conceivable that Sancho might nick one. Who else?

Reds 2-1. We’ll nick a couple while the lads at the back hold firm, despite Ddg.

United to smash and grab against these bitter div @#%&!s, and their oddball basket case of a manager tip-toeing on the touch line all game.

Waffles in the crowd with his half and half United-Haaland scarf, the absolute melt.

I honestly don't know who'll win today.

Sorry I can't offer anything more constructive.

Our current best 11. Nice to have some options on the bench too.

Come on, United