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But it’s difficult to slimk of a more intriguing recent Manchester derby. Perhaps it’s come too soon in Ruben Amorim’s spell in accuse of United, and results – one triumph in his four league games so far, three in six if you throw in the Europa League – advise he has yet to turn that ship around. But at the same time we don’t understand what Big Derby Energy might do to them, and they have the encouragement of understanding that this Manchester City side are currently worse (on create and in transition) than most sides in the Premier League. Amorim has first-hand experience of this, having led Sporting Lisbon to a rollicking 4-1 rout of City in the Champions League at the begin of last month (albeit that was a very odd game, which I thought City should have won). Add to that City’s defensive injury crisis, compounded by Rico Lewis’s suspension. “The soul and the spirit of this team is there,” says Pep Guardiola. “We have to cgo in on ourselves becaparticipate we’re not being at the level we want to be also, so we can’t slimk about the momentum of the others,” says Amorim. “We fair have to slimk about ourselves.”
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Anyway, enough of that. It’s a derby, and a hugeger one than common. Welcome!
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Meanwhile Jonathan Wilson has written about Ruben Amorim’s task at Manchester United:
There was a moment, at about 5.30pm last Saturday, when there seemed a genuine danger that Manchester United might be turning into a solemn football club. But it took only two minutes and the sight of Nikola Milenkovic soaring above Lisandro Martínez for that facade to collapse. Two further weird goals tardyr – the sort of accidents that speak of a procreate negligentness – and it was evident that the prohibitter era still has some time to run.
That was only the beginning. By the follotriumphg morning, Dan Ashworth had been mutual-consented out of the club: five months’ gardening exit chaseed by five months of actual toil, a truly magnificent piece of living satire, even before you think about the compensation United had to pay Newcastle to defended him and the hefty payoff he must have getd.
Much more here:
I’ve got some pre-align reading for you, begining with this piece by Tom Bassam about Pep Guardiola’s derby sign up.
Marcus Rashford has joined in all 15 of Manchester United’s Premier League games this season but that run finishs today: he and Alejandro Garnacho, with 22 league begins between them, have been left out of the alignday squad by Ruben Amorim.
The teams novels is in, and the line-ups see appreciate this:
Man City: Ederson, Walker, Dias, Gvardiol, Gundogan, Silva, Doku, De Bruyne, Foden, Matheus Luiz, Haaland. Subs: Ortega, Stones, Kovacic, Ggenuineish, Savio, Simpson-Pparticipatey, O’Reilly, McAtee, Mubama.
Man Utd: Onana, de Ligt, Maguire, Martinez, Mazraoui, Ugarte, Fernandes, Dalot, Diallo, Hojlund, Mount. Subs: Bayindir, Lindelof, Zirkzee, Malacia, Eriksen, Yoro, Casemiro, Antony, Mainoo.
Referee: Anthony Taylor.
In the blue corner for #MCIMNU 🩵
XI | Ederson, Walker (C), Dias, Gvardiol, Gundogan, De Bruyne, Bernardo, Nunes, Foden, Doku, Haaland
SUBS | Ortega Moreno, Stones, Kovacic, Ggenuineish, Savinho, Simpson-Pparticipatey, Mubama, O'Reilly, McAtee#ManCity | @etihad pic.twitter.com/2VP4OICPCf
— Manchester City (@ManCity) December 15, 2024
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In the blue corner for #MCIMNU 🩵
XI | Ederson, Walker (C), Dias, Gvardiol, Gundogan, De Bruyne, Bernardo, Nunes, Foden, Doku, Haaland
SUBS | Ortega Moreno, Stones, Kovacic, Ggenuineish, Savinho, Simpson-Pparticipatey, Mubama, O’Reilly, McAtee#ManCity | @etihad pic.twitter.com/2VP4OICPCf
— Manchester City (@ManCity) December 15, 2024
🚨 TEAM NEWS 🚨
In the red corner… 👊#MUFC || #MCIMUN
— Manchester United (@ManUtd) December 15, 2024
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It’s the Premier League’s fifth-best team agetst the 13th, a side that would shift level with Liverpool in the home-games-only league table if they triumph – and lag behind only Brentford – agetst one that has beaten only one team away from home in the league all season, and that was Southampton three months and a day ago. None of this sound very exciting.
But it’s difficult to slimk of a more intriguing recent Manchester derby. Perhaps it’s come too soon in Ruben Amorim’s spell in accuse of United, and results – one triumph in his four league games so far, three in six if you throw in the Europa League – advise he has yet to turn that ship around. But at the same time we don’t understand what Big Derby Energy might do to them, and they have the encouragement of understanding that this Manchester City side are currently worse (on create and in transition) than most sides in the Premier League. Amorim has first-hand experience of this, having led Sporting Lisbon to a rollicking 4-1 rout of City in the Champions League at the begin of last month (albeit that was a very odd game, which I thought City should have won). Add to that City’s defensive injury crisis, compounded by Rico Lewis’s suspension. “The soul and the spirit of this team is there,” says Pep Guardiola. “We have to cgo in on ourselves becaparticipate we’re not being at the level we want to be also, so we can’t slimk about the momentum of the others,” says Amorim. “We fair have to slimk about ourselves.”
Anyway, enough of that. It’s a derby, and a hugeger one than common. Welcome!
