Redemption is the buzzword for Manchester United. Ashley Young, Juan Mata, Chris Smalling, Marouane Fellaini and Ander Herrera, close to hal...
Redemption is the buzzword for Manchester United. Ashley Young, Juan Mata, Chris Smalling, Marouane Fellaini and Ander Herrera, close to half a team of players in from the cold to varying degrees.
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All boast markedly improved reputations. Louis van Gaal has also responded, following significant doubts regarding his ability to reverse the club's fortunes.
Being the man who followed the man who followed Alex Ferguson was supposed to be football's easiest gig, but there were times in November and December when it felt far from straightforward. This victory marked United's restoration in red pen.
In each of their previous two games against the Premier League's more successful sides (Liverpool and Tottenham), United finally played with an intensity lacking in the past 20 months. Against City, they demonstrated more still. This too was a bigger test than Liverpool or Spurs.
No team has ever beaten United five times consecutively in the Premier League era, but City's stranglehold on the Manchester derby had become rule rather than exception. That was blown away by a surging, rampant home performance. United's ability to stamp a side into the ground when they are one top is back.
The knack of their players performing at their best in the biggest moments of the biggest games is back. Their fortune, fluidity and pressing game: back, back and back. Those facts signal that the real Manchester United might be back, too. Perfection is still a distant ambition, but redemption sure tastes sweet.
