Friday, 10 January 2020

Interesting Facts from the Manchester Derby at Old Trafford

By db-admin

DBasia.news –  Manchester is Blue. Manchester City won the Manchester Derby at Old Trafford, against Manchester United, and reinforced the Citizens’ good record of rival teams.

Manchester City visited the headquarters of Manchester United in the 2019-2020 English League Cup semifinals, Tuesday (7/1). The Citizens won 3-1 in the match.

Manchester City’s third goal was created through Bernardo Silva, RiyadMahrez, and Andreas Pereira’s own goal. While Marcus Rashford became Manchester United’s goalscorer.

Apparently, there were a number of interesting facts from the match. The following, BolaSkor.com has summarized some of them as reported by Opta:

– Manchester City won seven of the last 10 trips to Manchester United’s headquarters. That amount is more than 39 previous matches which was only five.

– Since April 2010, Manchester United have never won two consecutive wins over Manchester City when playing at Old Trafford.

– Manchester City have not lost in the English League Cup since the fall of Manchester United in October 2016. The Citizens have always won the event in the last two seasons.

– Bernardo Silva became the first Manchester City player to score consecutive goals against Manchester at Old Trafford United since 2015. The last time was Sergio Aguero.

– Manchester United conceded three first-half goals for the first time at Old Trafford since May 1997.

– Since handled by Pep Guardiola, Manchester City became the English club who most often scored three goals ahead in the first round, 13 times. That amount exceeds Tottenham in second place, four times.

– Of Manchester United’s last 12 defeats at Old Trafford, four of them were created when against Manchester City.

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