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Asharq Al-Awsat
Asharq Al-Awsat
Sport
London - Barney Ronay

Manchester City played Digital Football. United are a Dial-up Version

Pep Guardiola gives instructions to João Cancelo during Manchester City’s derby day mauling of United. Photograph: Michael Regan/Getty Images

“Yeah, not bad.” With 44 minutes gone at the Etihad Stadium Manchester City scored a goal that brought the usual cheers and roars, but also something else, the urge to laugh.

City had already spent the first half playing football that seemed to have benefited from an operating system upgrade, demonstrating the latest miracle processor against a batch of red-shirted patsies.

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