Man City 3-0 Man Utd (Foden 18′, Haaland 53′, 68′)

This was supposed to be a different Manchester United, an xG powerhouse poised to blow the bloody doors off. Well, the doors came off all right, their doors and in ways with which we are all too familiar.

Ruben Amorim is once again left to process a performance that failed to yield a goal at the profitable end of the pitch. Manchester City, far from their best, did not have to work that hard, two goals a gift of United’s brittle centre, the third an error punished by the Premier League’s most lethal predator.

Amorim can point all he likes to the greater share of possession United enjoyed, which is a function of City’s own issues as Pep Guardiola negotiates this period of renewal. We heard after the opening day defeat to Arsenal how,

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