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Erling Haaland scored on 60 minutes as Manchester City beat Manchester United 1-0 at Old Trafford despite Phil Foden's 22nd-minute red card.
Manchester City beat Manchester United 1-0 at Old Trafford on Sunday after Erling Haaland scored on 60 minutes, sealing the derby victory even though Phil Foden was sent off on 22 minutes.
City played almost 70 minutes with ten men after Foden was shown a straight red card by referee Michael Oliver for kicking Bruno Fernandes around the midriff as the two challenged along City's right. Fernandes may have made contact with a boot first, but the video assistant referee backed Oliver's instantaneous decision, and Foden was dismissed.
Haaland's goal was initially ruled out for offside, but the video assistant referee overturned it after judging that Enzo Fernandez was not distracting Lisandro Martinez when Josko Gvardiol's ball came over. It was Haaland's ninth strike in this fixture, and his sixth goal in four games, as City claimed a memorable triumph at the home of their rivals, adding to the frustration of United's supporters.
City, surely looking at the film of January's 2-0 defeat here, wanted a quick start and not to be knocked off the ball as they were in Michael Carrick's first game in charge of United. Antoine Semenyo led the charge, losing a tussle with Diogo Dalot before recovering and dispossessing the right back. Dalot, curving a run, might have tested Gianluigi Donnarumma when a Fernandes chip found him, but a miscontrol let the goalkeeper gather.
Anderson followed Semenyo when upending Bryan Mbeumo in a foul that might have drawn Oliver's yellow card. Toe-to-toe was an apt characterisation of the contest, as Carrick had Matheus Cunha switching from his false No 9 berth with Marcus Rashford on the left, and Maresca instructed Fernandez to drift away from his midfield partner Anderson out wide.
Having Haaland galloping towards goal is a key City tactic, and when he did, a sixth goal in four games beckoned, but hesitation cost the striker, as Dalot went close to suffering for the same fault: under a high ball he was unsure and Semenyo, lurking, nearly profited. Foden's folly came next, an act that will have infuriated Maresca and, surely, most of a City stripe. City were in a classic twist-or-stick predicament.
A draw was no disaster, yet forage a goal and hold on would represent a famous and morale-rocketing result. When Haaland swooped forward and bent a pass into Rayan Cherki, moved from the No 10 slot to Foden's on the right, you saw why Maresca had decided to twist. The Italian's ambition was admirable, as long as United were kept out.
Carrick's team knew this, too, so composure was required, not the wildness that had Fernandes overhitting a simple cross that should have found Rashford ready to pull the trigger. Harry Maguire's tilt for glory from 25 yards that smacked into a colleague was also amateurish, but as the break neared, Rashford's effort was better. A 20-yard free-kick beat the wall but not the diving Donnarumma's right post.
Maresca's move ahead of the second half was to remove Cherki for Iliman Ndiaye's greater pace along the right, reinforcing his front-foot mode. Carrick's instructions had to be simple: go for the jugular and a precious three points that would lift them to fifth, five points behind the leaders, Arsenal. Kobbie Mainoo, anonymous so far, went as close as Rashford when letting fly: again Donnarumma was beaten and again his right post saved City, the rebound hitting the goalkeeper.
United were a red rash all over those in blue. Possession was pinballed about, tackles crashed into, as when Patrick Dorgu upended Ndiaye, yet no breakthrough came. So next, City's smash-and-grab dreams were realised when Haaland found the net. The No 9 celebrated with his sit-down zen-like posture, but only after VAR overruled the initial offside call.
Gvardiol's cross from the left hit Dorgu's foot and continued on, passing a diving Fernandez, who missed contact and was the subject of VAR's scrutiny, and Martinez, and Haaland rippled the net. Carrick replaced Youri Tielemans with Benjamin Sesko as United, desperate, required a goal. But this never came. Mbeumo's added-time effort was fierce, but beaten out by Donnarumma.
Instead this was City's day, Fernandez decorating his afternoon with a long-range attempt that clipped Senne Lammens's left post. Late on, after Haaland's finish, Nico O'Reilly replaced Fernandez to help see it out. At the final whistle, Maresca skipped down the touchline: the victory a triumph of his and the players' courage.
The atmosphere had been electric, with City supporters erupting in celebration when the final whistle blew, while a stunned United fan base was left to grapple with the loss. The result leaves United still searching for consistency under Carrick, while City celebrated a derby win that will echo in the city's history for years to come.
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