The BEST Manchester Derby Matches In the Premier League

Here we go then, the 192nd Premier League Manchester derby, the first league meeting 130 years ago. This is a clash seeped in history. Rashford! Marcus Rashford! Loves to score in a Manchester derby. That is his sixth against City. Nobody saw that coming. Now Kevin de Bruyne, away by Varad to Rodri and on Nanna again. The Manchester United goalkeeper has been busy. Good ball from Doku to Rodri, allowed to turn, Foden, Haaland! Astonishing, I mean I just thought he was going to put his head on it. Rodri. Manchester derby, whatever you do, I'll match it. Klantz feeling nervous, but here is Phil Foden. Glancing his way through, scoring in Manchester. More derby delights for Pep Guardiola. It is Manchester where they score goals that make souls leap from their seats in the stands. Gundogan, returned to de Bruyne wasn't perfect, but what a great cross in the circumstances and Josco Guardiola puts Manchester City in front in the derby. Foden, trying to find the space, nearly, very nearly. Touching the way through, it is a Manchester City quarter. Bruno Fernandes onside for Manchester United. That was the big moment. That was the moment they needed. Oh, that's a terrible ball. Mateus Nunes to Ahmad. Down he goes at the penalty area and Manchester United get a dramatic late spot kick. Mateus Nunes has fouled Ahmad and Manchester United are going to get the chance to equalise. Bruno Fernandes levels up the Manchester derby. You never quite know what you're going to get in a Manchester derby and this one has kept a sting in the tail until late on and it may get even better for Manchester United. Ahmad. Manchester United have turned in the 90th minute. Ruben Amerim about to beat Manchester City for the second time in a month. It is all over. Incredible finish at the Etihad. Manchester United in 1958, replica kit in numbers one to eleven and each of the 23 mascots accompanying the players, bearing the name on their shirt of those who died. That drop in possession. Van der Sar got a piece of it. Vercel in the second attempt. Manchester City lead at Old Trafford. A ground where they've not won for 34 years. Extending goalkeeper heart certainly. The same area. Angle of delivery for the Bulgarian Petrov. And touched on and in. Benjani on his debut scores in the Manchester derby and City lead at the home of their greatest rivals. Maybe a chance now and one back. Michael Carrick. Two minutes left to play. Manchester City win at Old Trafford for the first time since 1974. For the 127th time, United and City, the bitter rivals across the city of meet with local prestige on the line. Game warming up nicely here now. Just starting to open up as well. Weitz made an interesting run inside him. Quinn's here. And yes! Does the City have the lead? Strikes for Manchester City. And that's a great header there from Niall Quinn. Now McMahon. It's Bruce. Oh, present for Cantona. And United are back in business. And Eric Cantona makes it 2-1. City did not. Carroll was in there. Cantona. Keane. Hughes. Knocked in by Giggs. And here's Cantona! United. The Frenchman has answered all his critics. Let's have the whistle now and settle for the draw. Maybe City would do that because United are asking a lot of questions now. And here's Irwin. And Hughes. And they have stolen it! 3-2 to Manchester United. And the turnaround is complete. And there is the final whistle. Now you have to say that was a superb win for Manchester United when all looked lost. This is no parochial derby. This is a big picture game. Big players. Big stakes. Nanny's gone for goal. That wasn't so very far away from scoring. That's Scott jumping with Rooney. Giggs trying to feed it through. Nanny onside. Right, Phillips. And Dzeko deflection goal! Edin Dzeko with a tipped assistance. Nanny. Rooney! City just cannot catch United up. However hard they try. However much they spend. The smile remains. Playing on the lips of Sir Alex Ferguson. A warm welcome to the Etihad Stadium. The build-up to this fixture has bordered on the interminable. From the day the season's calendar was published, this was a match that stood out. Silver again. Oh! Yaya Toure to Giggs. Welbeck. Dionne went for the ball and got the man. Here's the next. I think he thinks it's there to win and it is. And then suddenly Welbeck's leg just gets in front of him as he's trying to get to the ball. Sorry for the two managers are nose to nose down beneath us. Fourth official Mike Jones has come between the two of them and now a steward too. And yes the stakes are high but they're two experienced campaigners. Manchester City eager to finish it. Yaya Toure. It was a chance all right. Well that would have put it to bed. That's right. Zabaleta just behind Aguero. Here's Plisic. Did the sitting tenants. Manchester City's night in the derby and maybe in the Barclays Premier League. Manchester United may just have been dethroned. Welcome to the Etihad Stadium for the 164th Manchester derby between the Barclays Premier League leaders United and the reigning champions City. United's turn with Ashley Young. Rooney. Manchester United have had those to the ball the majority of the play. Manchester United though take the lead. Valencia. Now Raphael the Brazilian fullback. And Rooney it's two. Wayne Rooney's 150th Premier League goal comes at the home of the greatest enemy. Here's Tevez to Aguero. Back to Tevez. Silver. Wonderful save and then Tevez turns again. Yaya Toure. Well that's just what the game needed. Zabaleta. It's Tevez. He's been booked. Van Persie playing in his first Manchester derby. And Van Persie may well have won that Manchester derby. What an unbelievable finish to the game. City down and out in despair and disbelief. There's the whistle. Manchester United have won on enemy territory and Robin Van Persie on his derby debut is the match winner and the hero. All Premier League games are worth the same three points but this one, this is worth more than the sum of its fights in this city. Ronaldo, Silva, Filpone. Manchester City lead. Seven minutes played. It's the home grown blue and indeed crossed the goal line and Manchester City have doubled their lead. Di Bruna. Manchester United trying to get numbers back. Haaland. Two goals in four minutes for Erling Haaland. As United push forward, look at the gaps in the back. Di Bruna was caught late. Haaland. Foden. Goals in 43 minutes. The reigning Premier League champions are flexing their muscles and listen to the volume of the noisy neighbours now. Now the shot's not bad either. Well, hands down the best moment for the visitors of the afternoon so far and to the second Premier League appearance. He's just grabbed his second goal and it's an absolute beauty. Di Bruna. Gio Gomez. Haaland. Three games in a row in the Premier League. Three hat-tricks in succession for Erling Haaland. Foden. Hat-trick for Haaland. Hat-trick for Foden. Job done for Manchester City in the Manchester derby. The humiliation for the visitors continues. Fred. Sight of goal and it'll be followed up by Anthony Martial. Manchester United get their second. They reduce the deficit to four. Referee points to the spot. This is going to be a penalty. Manchester United may be far, far behind in this race but they're not giving up. The French Anthony. Anthony Martial who will attempt to score and does. A well-taken penalty to the postage stamp corner. Anthony Martial, second of the game. Six-three that matters. Another hat-trick for Haaland. Quite incredibly. Very special day for Phil Foden too. A hat-trick for him also. It is derby day as countless generations have known it. Spiky, charged, tribal but this time it is derby day with one almighty twist. If City win the match, City win the league. Sane. Sane's onto it. He's got it through for Gundawan and now here's Sterling and Gundawan. Sanchez down here for Paul Pogba. United in the game to have his say. Sanchez. Pogba. The scene has changed. Shades of red on this blue, blue day. Game done yet. Terrified to Nilo who went in hard and Sanchez whips it in. Small in. Then two-nil down. United rule the City. So City for now do not yet rule the land. Jose's Reds have delayed the blue parade. The first team to beat City here in the Premier League for 16 months. A warm welcome to Old Trafford for the 161st Manchester Derby. Balotelli. The t-shirt says it all. Balotelli down for Agüero and Balotelli beyond Evans. Down he goes and the decision goes in favour of Manchester City but what about Jonny Evans? It's got to be Jonny Evans. The denial of a clear goal scoring opportunity. It's a free kick right on the edge of the penalty area as opposed to a penalty kick. Milner back to silver again. Balotelli. Two for City and Manchester City are turning Old Trafford blue. Balotelli. Milner. Crisp from City. It's Richards. It's three. Sergio Agüero. No doubt now about the outcome. Completely Manchester City's day. Here's Darren Fletcher. Hernandez back to Fletcher. Lovely goal. That's a gem of a goal from Darren Fletcher and Les Scott and Dzeko turns it in and it's five just as it was all those years back in 1989. Manchester United cut apart and when the whistle goes there will be very few Manchester United supporters here. Here's Dzeko. Couldn't be six could it? It could you know. A seismic day in English football. What a way to describe it. Regime change. Power shift. Call it what you like and the handshake will be an unusual one for Sir Alec Ferguson because his team has been completely dismantled and humbled and humiliated. It's an occasion that in many ways speaks for itself and Sir Alec has had the better of things in his tenure. So finding Evra. Here's Rooney and still touch paper sensational start for Manchester United. Oh tangled Foster and Tevez. Tevez has got the better of it. Here's Barry. Ben Foster's error. Manchester City's equaliser and Gareth Barry's first goal in Mancunian blue. Well didn't Barry take it coolly. I have to say he really placed that ball in the corner with a nice drive. Evra. Two to deal with. Giggs in support and Fletcher going in for all seasons. Ireland the most advanced City player at the moment. Greg Bellamy bearing down. Letting fly. Full wonderful goal. Just a sensational strike from the Welshman. Just poised. Giggs in and a classic Chester City into a daze. The pace of Bellamy will go clear of the England centre-back Ferdinand. Bellamy has scored. Manchester United on the cusp of stoppage time. Greg Bellamy has stopped the champions in their tracks. Final chance for Manchester United. Well beyond the promised measure of stoppage time. Is there a final twist? Not with a free kick like that. Rooney hoists it. Ferdinand beneath it. Comes out to Giggs. What a pass. Michael Owen. Taste of a Manchester derby. What we were told from the substitute.