Pep Guardiola's reaction
The better team won. We have to accept it. They had an energy we didn’t have; congratulations to them.
We arrived many, many times in the final third but we didn’t have a threat or make a movement. That’s partly because of the energy.
[On Dalot’s challenge on Doku] It’s easy for me to say it would be a different game if he gets a red card. But it’s not about that: we will not grow up if that is our argument. You have to do better and today we didn’t.
[If Arsenal win later…] It’s about how we grow up as a team. We’ve done very, very good things so far; I have that feeling. But we have a lot of problems in some departments. If we don’t win we will say ‘congratulations’, but there’s a long way to go – you have to continue, continue.
Match report: Man Utd 2-0 Man City
On 64 minutes Michael Carrick’s second tenure went electric as Manchester United scored a classic breakaway goal by Bryan Mbeumo that sent the interim head coach berserk in the technical area.
After a clearing Harry Maguire header, the ball evaded Rayan Cherki and Bruno Fernandes galloped forward. He had Amad Diallo to the right and Patrick Dorgu and Mbeumo on the left; United’s streetwise captain delayed the pass expertly, then found the Cameroonian, whose finish beat Gianluigi Donnarumma with ease.
Old Trafford – the blue zone apart – went into near combustion, the atmosphere supercharged as the neighbours from across town went behind in the 198th derby.
