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Manchester United vs Manchester City LIVE: Bitter rivals meet in the first derby of the season at Old Trafford on another crunch day for Ole Gunnar Solskjaer as Pep Guardiola’s side aim to keep pressure on leaders Chelsea

  • Manchester United and Manchester City meet in the derby at Old Trafford 
  • Ole Gunnar Solskjaer remains under pressure despite good results this week
  • United boss will hope for another piece of Cristiano Ronaldo magic 
  • Pep Guardiola’s side need three points to keep pace with leaders Chelsea 
  • Latest Premier League news, including live action and results
  • Premier League table – as it stands

Manchester United and Manchester City meet at Old Trafford in the first derby of the season at Old Trafford.

Ole Gunnar Solskjaer will be hoping his players can produce another stirring performance to keep him secure in his job after they responded to the 5-0 thrashing by Liverpool with a win at Tottenham and a dramatic draw with Atalanta.

Pep Guardiola’s City, meanwhile, can’t really afford to drop any points with Chelsea and Liverpool ahead of them in the title race.  

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We will bring you confirmation of the two team line-ups very shortly as we reach an hour until kick-off at Old Trafford.

United are in danger of losing eight league and cup home games in a calendar year for the first time since 1989.

They have failed to keep a clean sheet in any of their past 13 matches at Old Trafford, their longest such run since 1964.

The Red Devils are the only side yet to score a Premier League goal from a set-piece situation this season, excluding penalties.

Ole Gunnar Solskjaer has won four of his eight meetings with Pep Guardiola, the best ratio of any manager to face the Catalan at least five times.

Cristiano Ronaldo has scored eight goals in 16 appearances against teams managed by Guardiola, which is bettered only by Jamie Vardy’s total of nine.

David de Gea is poised to make his 350th Premier League appearance, which would equal the record for a Spanish player, set by Cesc Fabregas.



The above quote was Michael Owen’s assessment of Jack Grealish’s start to life at Manchester City following his £100million move from Aston Villa in the summer.

With just two goals and three assists from his 15 games in a light blue shirt, it is hard to argue against that judgement right now, though it is not for a want of trying on Grealish’s part – or Pep Guardiola’s.

Grealish has played in 15 of City’s 17 matches so far this season, only missing the 2-0 home win over Burnley and an EFL Cup win over Wycombe. He has started all but two of those matches. Worryingly, all six times City have drawn a blank this season Grealish has played, starting five of those.

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Here’s some snaps of Ole Gunnar Solskjaer and his players arriving at the stadium just a short time ago.



Manchester United are unbeaten in their four most recent league games against Manchester City (W3, D1), their longest such run since a six-match sequence between 2008 and 2011.

Only three of the past 16 Manchester derbies in all competitions have been won by the home team, compared to 10 away victories. The visiting side kept a clean sheet in four of the previous five encounters, including all three meetings last season.

City are chasing an eighth Premier League win away to United, which would be the most by any club. They have won six of their last 10 top-flight matches at Old Trafford (D2, L2).

Here is a snapshot of the top six in the Premier League table ahead of this lunchtime’s action.

Chelsea have a handy early lead over the reigning champions City, who have already lost two games, while Liverpool are still undefeated 10 matches into the season.

United, meanwhile, are fifth but a win would take them level on points with West Ham.

It’s not unusual for the Manchester derby to be a feast or famine affair, either everything happens or you see less action than yet another rained off Test match at Old Trafford.

That alone makes it an unpredictable affair, but given the erratic form of both teams ahead of Saturday lunchtime’s kick off, it’s difficult to pick a winner from Manchester United and their local rivals Manchester City.

Both have wobbled recently. United unforgivably capitulated 5-0 at home to Liverpool a fortnight ago, but then turned up at Tottenham to roll them over 3-0.

Ole Gunnar Solskjaer’s side then put up another suspect display mid-week in snatching a stoppage time 2-2 draw in the Champions League at Atalanta and it’s wild form like this that leaves them fifth in the Premier League table and eight points off the summit.

For City, they have fared slightly better sitting third and five points off leaders Chelsea. Yet despite thumping Club Brugge 4-1 midweek in Europe they head into the derby having suffered a shock 2-0 defeat at home by Crystal Palace last weekend.

So who knows what Manchester sides will turn up? But factoring in the certain absentees of the suspended Aymeric Laporte, Paul Pogba and injured Raphael Varane, Sportsmail looks at how a combined XI could line up.

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We’re already one game down in the weekend’s Premier League action with Southampton inflicting a fifth straight defeat on Aston Villa last night with the pressure mounting on Dean Smith.

To mark your card, here’s the rest of the weekend’s fixtures:

LAST NIGHT
Southampton 1 Aston Villa 0

TODAY
Manchester United vs Manchester City (12.30pm)
Brentford vs Norwich City (3pm)
Chelsea vs Burnley (3pm)
Crystal Palace vs Wolverhampton Wanderers (3pm)
Brighton and Hove Albion vs Newcastle United (5.30pm)

TOMORROW
Arsenal vs Watford (2pm)
Everton vs Tottenham Hotspur (2pm)
Leeds United vs Leicester City (2pm)
West Ham United vs Liverpool (4.30pm)

It is always one of the most hotly-anticipated fixtures of any Premier League season but today’s Manchester derby goes far beyond just local bragging rights.

For United and Ole Gunnar Solskjaer, it’s a game they dare not lose. Memories of that 5-0 thrashing by Liverpool a fortnight ago are still raw and a similar humiliation at the hands of another foe could well have seismic repercussions.

United have responded well to that embarrassment. A 3-0 win at Tottenham last Sunday saw them return to their fluent best in attack before more Cristiano Ronaldo magic late on earned them a valuable point away to Atalanta in the Champions League.

It’s a game City can’t afford to lose either. Already five points behind leaders Chelsea in the Premier League title race, that could easily be eight by 5pm today.

Yes, it’s only just into November but that is a considerable margin for Pep Guardiola’s side to make up. The good news is they have a pretty good record at Old Trafford in recent years.

So buckle up for what is sure to be an thralling clash in Manchester.



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