All eyes will be on the Etihad on Sunday afternoon as Pep Guardiola’s Premier League champions entertain an under-fire Red Devils side for the 192nd Manchester derby.
But United’s trip to their very noisy neighbours is just one of a number of intriguing top-flight fixtures this weekend, as battle lines are drawn and narratives play out at both ends of the table.
Fresh from their Carabao Cup triumph and a midweek defeat of Southampton in the FA Cup, league leaders Liverpool look to hold off their title rivals with victory away to a Nottingham Forest side hovering just four points above the drop zone.
These are some insights about the match between Manchester United Vs Manchester city on Sunday 3rd March 2024.
Manchester United have lost more Premier League home games against Manchester City than they have versus any other opponent (8), while no side has beaten the Red Devils more often overall in the competition than the Citizens (18, level with Chelsea and Liverpool).
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Manchester City are looking to complete the Premier League double over Manchester United for the sixth time, which would be more often than any other side in the competition's history (Liverpool also 5).
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Manchester United have conceded 12 goals in their last three Premier League meetings with Man City, including six in their meeting at the Etihad Stadium in October. It's as many goals as they'd shipped against the Citizens in their 12 previous meetings combined.
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This is the earliest into a calendar year the Manchester Derby has been played in the Premier League since 2006, when Manchester City won 3-1 at the Etihad on January 14th.
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Following their 6-3 win against Man Utd in October, Manchester City are looking to equal or break their record number of league goals scored against their rivals in a season, scoring eight against them in 1954-55 (3-2 home, 5-0 away). The most goals the Red Devils have conceded against an opponent in a Premier League season is nine against Liverpool in 2021-22.
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Since and including their win over Liverpool on August 22nd, no team has won more points in the Premier League than Manchester United (35), winning 11 of their 15 games in this time (D2 L2). They had lost each of their four league games before this.
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This will be Pep Guardiola’s 500th game of his top-flight managerial career, taking charge of 152 in LaLiga with Barcelona, 102 in the Bundesliga with Bayern Munich, and this will be his 246th in the Premier League with Man City. The Spaniard has won 379 of his 499 games to date (76% - D68 L52), with this the most wins and best win rate (100+ games) of any manager in Europe’s big-five leagues since Guardiola’s first top-flight season in 2008-09.
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Both Erling Haaland and Phil Foden scored hat-tricks for Man City in their 6-3 win over Man Utd in the reverse fixture. The last player to score in both Premier League meetings for the Citizens against Man Utd in a season was Sergio Agüero (2014-15), and the last Englishman to do so was Shaun Wright-Phillips (2003-04), while no Man City player has ever scored 2+ goals in both league meetings.
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Marcus Rashford has scored in his last three Premier League appearances for Manchester United and is looking to score in four in a row for the first time since January 2019. However, he hasn’t scored in any of his last five appearances against Man City in the competition, managing just one shot on target in these games.
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Against Chelsea last time out, Riyad Mahrez scored Man City’s 50th Premier League goal by a substitute under Pep Guardiola (excl. own goals), with only Man Utd (57) having more goals by substitutes in the competition since 2016-17. Mahrez has scored nine of those goals, the most of any substitute in Guardiola’s entire managerial top-flight career.
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