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Manchester United are interested in signing France forward Randal Kolo Muani, 26, from PSG and a loan with an option to buy in January could be an option. (L'Equipe, via Get French Football News), external
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Image source, Getty ImagesManchester United manager Ruben Amorim has been speaking to BBC Match of the Day after their derby win: "It was incredible. I think we deserved it. It was a very tough match but we believe until the end. We managed to score, we needed that win, it was important for us and for our fans.
"We were in the game for 90 minutes and that is very good. We talk about the Arsenal game, we played well in the first half but they were not believing that we could win. Today was so much more different.
"I also believe. Then we have Fergie time and we put the things together and something magic happened. It was a good day for us.
"They [the fans] need it. Just like us, but you can see the way they celebrate is special. But we need to continue. Our club needs to win these kinds of matches, I understand the happiness of our fans but we need to continue.
"With a victory for City, the performance was the same. We need to improve a lot of things but today the guys deserved the win. They were in it until the last minute and that is important for us."
On Amad Diallo: "He can play different positions, he is very humble. We have to be very careful with Amad because sometimes in our club we put young players in a special place. Let's stay clam with Amad."
Image source, Getty ImagesManchester United captain Bruno Fernandes, speaking to Sky Sports about Amad Diallo after today's victory: "He has been doing well, he has been doing great things and there is a still a lot to come from him.
"He showed again today he is always alive. That is why he gets the penalty, why he gets the goal. He has been brilliant. When he is like this he is unstoppable.
"I just want him to keep working, that is what he has been doing. It is great what he did today but I am sure he can do this every week. We want this week in, week out. He is now getting his chances, deservedly."
On taking his penalty after missing a big opportunity: "It was a big chance when still 1-0 down. I just tried to lift the ball away from Ederson. A penalty is a moment of nerves. They are a big part of games. I am ready to calm myself down in big moments."
On adapting under Ruben Amorim: "It is a process, we know what he demands, what he wants. It doesn't matter what happens, we stick to what we do."
Image source, Getty ImagesManchester City were leading until the 88th minute of this match, but ended up losing 2-1 – the latest into a game that a reigning champion has led in a Premier League game and lost.
The team leading at half time of both Manchester derbies in the Premier League in 2024 has gone on to lose (3-1 to Man City in March and 2-1 to Man Utd in December). This is as many times as the team behind at half time had gone on to win in all meetings between the two sides in the competition previously (2).
Manchester City have only lost four of the 105 Premier League home games in which they have been ahead at half time under Pep Guardiola (W94 D7), with half of those defeats coming against Manchester United – 3-2 in April 2018 and 2-1 tonight.
In terms of average age, Manchester City's starting XI (28y 137d) was the oldest named by either side in a Manchester derby in the Premier League since April 2017.
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Manchester United have kept just one clean sheet since the arrival of new head coach Ruben Amorim and changing formation to a back three, but could that defence cause Pep Guardiola some headaches in the Manchester derby?
Former City midfielder Michael Brown tells The Football News Show how they sometimes struggle against a back three and how they might find a solution.
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Chris Sutton is making predictions for all 380 Premier League games this season, against a variety of guests.
For week 16, he takes on darts star Stephen Bunting, who is a Liverpool fan.
Sutton's prediction: 3-1
The wheels have really come off at Manchester City now - who saw that coming?
City just cannot keep a clean sheet. They have managed one in their past 10 games, and now their manager Pep Guardiola is talking about being tired.
I know it was in the context of him not having enough energy to go to another club and starting again there, but it must have sent a message to his current players too.
You never know with Pep, and he may have just been being sarcastic, but if he really is tired, does he have the energy required to turn City around? That would be a worry for City with the run they are on.
Meanwhile, at Manchester United, new manager Ruben Amorim is barely through the door and the club's owner Sir Jim Ratcliffe is telling everyone they are "mediocre".
Amorim beat City in his final game in charge of Sporting, before he came to Old Trafford, which got United fans very excited, but they have soon realised whenever they play anyone half-decent, they are the same team that were struggling under Erik ten Hag.
Basically, both teams have been really bad, so what on earth do I go for here?
In the recent past, I have always gone with City in Manchester derbies and, while Amorim beat them with Sporting, you have to remember City could have been a few goals up by half-time in that game.
So, I'm going to go with City to win at home and maybe rejuvenate Pep before Christmas.
Speaking of stats, I've got a good one for you - United never lost three league games in a row in more than two years under Erik ten Hag, but Amorim will manage that in less than a month if he is beaten here.
Bunting's prediction: 2-1
I can see this being cagey because of City's poor form, with just one goal in it.
Image source, Getty ImagesBoth Manchester City and Manchester United supporters are apprehensive going into Sunday's derby at Etihad Stadium (16:30 GMT).
On the latest editionof The Football News Show on BBC iPlayer, City fan Rachel Herdson and United supporter Kim Burdett previewed the latest battle for bragging rights.
"I am having flashbacks to my childhood and games in the 80s and 90s when we last had the horrific form we are in," said Herdson.
"The only consolation at the minute is that it is a derby and form goes out of the window. It's a great chance to stop the rot.
"It's always a good time to play the derby and it is one of the first games I look for at the start of the season, and it's become very crucial to our season as well. We have to stop the rot at some point.
"We have a really tough game at Aston Villa next week too so we really need to be picking up points."
Burdett feels similar to her blue counterpart, citing the fact United head coach Ruben Amorim is still settling into his role at the club as a potential reason for the match to cause reds nervousness too.
"It's quite an unusual situation for both sets of fans to be coming into a derby and neither side being confident," she said.
"City are not in the best run of form but we've obviously got a new manager and we are trying to settle into a new system.
"Players are trying to learn to play differently and set up differently, so this game has probably come a little bit too soon for us. We don't really know what team Amorim is going to put out, but it is a derby and anything is possible. We saw that in the cup final back in May.
"I don't think even United fans expected us to win that. It's unpredictable, so both red and blue are full of trepidation before this one.
"We can have a bit more confidence that we aren't going to get completely hammered as we have done in previous years.
"I'd like to think that we will give them a good game."
Alex Keble
Football tactics writer
For Manchester United to take a giant leap forward in the Manchester derby on Sunday, they must first take a small step back.
Beating Manchester City demands a reactive counter-attacking strategy - a brief return to the Erik ten Hag methodology they had hoped to leave behind.
By now, you will have heard this point from many pundits, but without Rodri breaking up the play, City have become vulnerable to fast breaks.
Their recoveries are down significantly from 45.6 per 90 in 2023-24 to 39.1 per 90 in 2024-25 and they have conceded the highest expected goals (xG) from fast breaks in the whole of the Premier League (4.5).
In theory, United have the players and the formation to expose this further.
All they need do is follow Ten Hag's sit-back-and-counter tactics – and listen to Crystal Palace manager Oliver Glasner's advice.
"We knew we can play a higher intensity [than City] - all the data showed this," Glasner said after Palace's 2-2 draw with City last weekend. "We knew when we get into the transitions we'd get in behind.
"There was so much space on the opposite side next to [Ilkay] Gundogan. When you play with one number six, 4-1-4-1, like City are playing, there is a lot of space on the left and right of the number six."
Image source, BBC SportPalace's first goal in the 2-2 draw comes from Will Hughes (circled) having the time - without Rodri - to advance and play a through-ball to Munoz. Gundogan (19) is out of position forcing the two City centre-backs to try and step out.
Intensity, fast transitions, and targeting the number six - that is how to try and beat City - and United have the system to do it.
Ruben Amorim's 3-4-2-1 has two 'number 10s' sitting just behind a striker, while City's 4-1-4-1 isolates the number six in precisely that same zone.
This basic mismatch could define the derby.
Image source, BBC SportThe likely formation of Amorim's Man Utd, with two 'number 10s' (red 9 & 10) positioned either side of City's single defensive midfielder (blue 6)
Amad Diallo's dribbles (or 'carries' in Opta language) have been directly responsible for five of United's six league goals under Amorim.
If he forces a counter-attack, then City's stretched midfield is likely to be preoccupied with United's two central midfielders, leaving the two 10s with space to feed through balls.
This is exactly what happened in Sporting's 4-1 Champions League victory against City last month, when Amorim's side largely played on the break and scored twice by dancing through the areas Mateo Kovacic, the lone six, could not cover
Man City's Kovacic, overworked as the only number six, cannot get close enough to stop the through ball for Sporting's first goal.
After Kovacic is pulled out of position and beaten by a successful dribble, Man City's midfield is again wide open, allowing Sporting to score a second.
The visitors could snatch a rare win, but only if Amorim is willing to both repeat his Sporting template and indulge United's old habits.
BBC Sport chief football news reporter Simon Stone and former Manchester City midfielder Michael Brown join Ben Croucher on The Football News Show to look ahead to the Manchester derby, with both teams going into the match at Etihad Stadium in underwhelming form.
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Image source, Getty ImagesOn the most recent episode of BBC Radio 5 Live's, Planet Premier League, former Arsenal and Manchester City full-back, Gael Clichy looks ahead to the Manchester Derby: "When you look at United's side, there's a new manager, people are getting sacked, you know players feel like they don't want to be there. There's no identity.
"The manager is just coming in, so he will have his own ideas. He will take time, but at the same time you need points. This game comes at the time where you don't have time."
Clichy on if United need to freshen up their squad: "I think the one thing City used to do really well was to allow players that reached a certain level or a certain age to go, even if they had more in the legs to give to the club. They decide, OK, this is enough.
"I've experienced this. We want someone younger, fresher and better. What I see with United, I see a lot of players that have been here for like five, six, seven, eight, nine years.
"I'm not saying it's impossible to maintain a kind of competitive environment, but we're talking about [Luke] Shaw, who I rate really highly, but he's been out for so long. You know I can't remember the last season he's done playing more than 35 games. Do you want to keep relying on someone like him? Or do you want to try and progress and go to something new? And maybe this manager will come with new ideas, I don't know."
Image source, PA MediaCaptain Bruno Fernandes insists all of Manchester United's focus is on themselves before Sunday's Manchester derby, not on their faltering opponents.
Reigning Premier League champions City have lost seven and won only one of their past 10 games.
But United, 13th in the table before this round of fixtures, are desperate for points themselves.
Portugal midfielder Fernandes said: "It doesn't change anything for us, how they [City] are in this moment, because we have to think about ourselves.
"We all know that this is a huge game and they have huge players. They're probably not winning as much as everyone would expect them to do.
"But we have to focus on ourselves because we're not being at the level we want to be also, so we can't think about the momentum of the others.
"We just have to think about ourselves and do the job we have to do to get in better positions and we need points in the league, so it doesn't matter who we play against.
"We know it's City, a huge derby. We know what it means for the fans and it means a lot for us too, so we just have to go to the game and win without thinking who we have ahead."
There have not been many occasions where Manchester City and Manchester United have come into this derby in such troublesome form.
Pep Guardiola and his side are going through their worst spell under the Spaniard since he arrived in 2016, while Ruben Amorim's start as United boss has been somewhat stuttering.
This does, however, set up an intriguing battle at Etihad Stadium on Sunday.
While the two sides go head to head on the pitch, we asked our fan contributors for each club to go head to head off it.
Each got to ask three questions of the other. Steven McInerney from Esteemed Kompany, external was asked the following by our Manchester United supporter:
Despite struggling to replicate form from previous seasons, how confident are City fans coming up against this United side under a new manager?
Guardiola told his players not to feel sorry for themselves, but why have City gone backwards this season?
What has been City's biggest weakness this campaign?
And Dale O'Donnell from United in Focus, external was given the following questions by McInerney:
How optimistic are you about the Amorim era after a difficult start?
After a lengthy pursuit to get him in, Dan Asworth has already gone - is this concerning?
What is a realistic aim for United this season?
Image source, Getty ImagesManchester United manager Ruben Amorim says Andre Onana's mistake at Viktoria Plzen on Thursday will not define him, as the Reds look to win at Manchester City on Sunday.
Amorim was asked about the Cameroon international after Onana's loose pass led to Matej Vydra's opening goal in the Europa League match.
"Yeah we have to take it like it is," said the United boss. "He had already in the past a situation like that. So we have to work on this.
"If you see the play, we are trying to build up a lot with the goalkeeper making the balls with [Matthijs de Ligt] a lot of times. This time we have a disconnect a little bit during the play and when we tried this, we suffered a goal. A difficult goal for us in the start of the second half."
A Rasmus Hojlund double turned the game on its head as United won 2-1.
Amorim says that if such a mistake happens, it is the responsibility of the team to turn it round, much in the same way as it is Onana's responsibility to make big saves to help the Reds gain points too.
"We managed [Viktoria], not like against Nottingham," he added. "We managed to help Onana, like he did in the past for us."
Image source, Getty ImagesManchester United have lost both of their past two Premier League games, last losing three in a row within a single season in December 2015 under Louis van Gaal.
New manager Ruben Amorim is yet to lose three on the bounce in his top-flight managerial career, with this his 172nd such match across Portugal's Primeira Liga and England's Premier League.
