The most successful club in England, the noisy neighbors, the devil who has lost his trident, the Blue Moon rising, last minute goals, the P...
The most successful club in England, the noisy neighbors, the devil who has lost his trident, the Blue Moon rising, last minute goals, the Poznan.
Two teams with different sayings associated with them. The 168th derby game between these two sides comes up at Etihad Stadium, with Man Utd winning 69 of those encounters, 48 to Man City, and the rest ending in stalemate.
Manuel Pellegrini's head is under water and he is not breathing fine, in his past 3 games, he has managed to secure just a draw from one of those games.
The Citizens are third in the table and are four points above their neighbors so losing to the Red Devils would not see them trade places but would have Chelsea stretch their lead further at the top of the table.
Louis van Gaal is coming to grips with the idea of what the Premier League could be all about, the physicality involved with it, as with his introduction of Fellaini into the starting eleven.
The Belgian, undeniably, Man Utd's best player against Chelsea at Old Trafford currently sits out talented Ander Herrera.
KEY MEN:
In his last four Premier League appearances against Man Utd, Yaya Toure has scored three times and it would be dangerous to bet against him not scoring again.
The last time teams met Etihad, the Ivorian was instrumental winning the battle of the midfield with Marouane Fellaini.
Toure was part of the team that lost to Newcastle United in the Capital One cup, and would be willing to get back to winning ways after his team did not quite turn up against the team from the Tyne.
David De Gea would be United's key man. While the objective is not to keep him quiet for Man City, the Spaniard would be more key for the Red Devils than for the Citizens.
De Gea, despite only 9 games played this season, is the only Man Utd player to have featured in all nine and LvG would be hoping his heroics against Everton and part-brilliance against Chelsea would be on show.
He will be under threat of world class players run at his backline given that his defence has had a torrid time dealing with even less than average players this season.
TEAM NEWS:
Luckily for Man Utd, David Silva is out for about three weeks and would not feature, rumors of Yaya Toure missing out would be hard to be believed, and Frank Lampard is still out with Samir Nasri expected to start in the absence of Silva.
Wayne Rooney is back from his suspension and is expected to get back into the first team as Man Utd were unable to prove he was dispensable with Juan Mata likely to pay for such failure.
Radamel Falcao is still out injured as well as Phil Jones, but Johnny Evans could be a surprise inclusion to the starting lineup.
PREDICTION:
In recent times, prediction of a win would go to Man City but with City having a torrid time and the confidence that comes from RvP's late equalizer, it would not be as clear as spring water.
Harder to predict not because of a supposed burgeoning superiority by Man Utd but by Man City's inexcusable mediocrity.
Both teams cancel each out is my prediction but something tells me LvG has a tricky treat under his belt; could be a Happy Halloween for the Red Devils.
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