Manchester City Football Club is an English football club based in Manchester that competes in the Premier League, the top flight of English football. Founded in 1880 as St. Mark’s, it became Ardwick Association Football Club in 1887 and Manchester City in 1894.
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Roy Keane has described Manchester United’s display in the 4-1 defeat by Manchester City as “shameful”.
“I think the worst thing you could say about United is they did give up,” Keane, a former United captain, told Sky Sports. “For a player in a derby, or any game, to give up, it’s unforgivable really. The beauty of top-level sport is there is no hiding place. We saw all United’s shortcomings today.
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Josep “Pep” Guardiola Sala is a Spanish professional football manager and former player, who is the current manager of Premier League club Manchester City.
Manchester City once again asserted their dominance over Manchester United as they eased to victory in Sunday’s derby.
While the first half at the Etihad might have been well-contested between the two sides, the second half was anything but. City well and truly controlled proceedings as their neighbours failed to lay a glove on them.
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“City, increasingly sure of what they do under Pep Guardiola, were not even at their best here. Yet they remained far better than Ralf Rangnick’s United.
“City – just 2-1 up at half-time – worked tirelessly throughout the second period to stretch that lead. But at the same time, metaphorically speaking, this was a stroll for them.”
United did not lay a glove on City in the second period. It is hard to recall City goalkeeper Ederson doing a single thing of note during that time and by the end the shot count stood at 24 against five.
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Having taken a 2-1 lead into the break thanks to Kevin De Bruyne’s first-half brace either side of a Jadon Sancho strike, Riyad Mahrez made sure of the points with his own double after the break to secure a 4-1 win. In truth, it could have been much more for a rampant City side.
The club is currently owned by the City Football Group, a British-based holding company; with the majority stake owned by the Abu Dhabi United Group, a smaller consortium of owners from the United States and China collectively own 24%.
