Manchester United’s Harry Maguire heads at objective. Photograph: REUTERS
MANCHESTER:
A remodeled Manchester United kicked off interim supervisor Michael Carrick’s second stint in cost with an exhilarating 2-0 derby day defeat of Manchester Metropolis within the Premier League at a vibrant Previous Trafford on Saturday.
Carrick’s attack-minded facet swept away the gloom hanging over the membership with second-half objectives by Bryan Mbeumo and Patrick Dorgu underlining their dominance of a disappointing Metropolis whose title hopes suffered a crushing blow.
Mbeumo, simply again from Africa Cup of Nations obligation with Cameroon, completed sweetly within the sixty fifth minute and Dorgu obtained on the top of Matheus Cunha’s cross to place the house followers in dreamland 10 minutes later.
However for an outstanding show by Metropolis keeper Gianluigi Donnarumma and three disallowed objectives, United would have loved a far larger margin of victory whereas the guests barely threatened as objective machine Erling Haaland hardly obtained a look-in.
Not solely was it a humbling loss for Metropolis towards their cross-town rivals, it put an enormous dent of their hopes of reeling in Arsenal within the Premier League title race.
As a substitute of closing the hole on the high to a manageable three factors they may discover themselves 9 adrift if Arsenal beat Nottingham Forest afterward Saturday.
For United it was the right begin to Carrick’s tenure as they moved provisionally into fourth place.
