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Erling Haaland and Phil Foden both scored hat-tricks as City thrashed United in a remarkable Manchester derby

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Sun 2 Oct 2022 12.08 EDTFirst published on Sun 2 Oct 2022 07.53 EDT
Manchester United 'lack belief' as Haaland gives outstanding derby performance – video

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Erik ten Hag’s reaction

[What went wrong?] Lack of belief. I’m surprised we didn’t bring it on the pitch. It’s four weeks ago [United’s last league game] but I had seen a different team, a different spirit and offencement [sic]. Today we didn’t have offencement, we were not on the front foot and we were not brave in possession.

“It’s difficult [to explain the performance] straight after the game. I need to talk to my players. They know they can do better. If you don’t fight – and we didn’t – you’ll have a problem against a team like Man City. I don’t think you can compare this [to the Brentford game]. Against Brentford we didn’t run; today we didn’t follow the principles, we were indisciplined. Once again, it was a lack of belief.

Christian Eriksen speaks

It was a very, very bad day at the office. We started on the wrong foot - they had chances straight from the kick-off - and we can only blame ourselves for not coming into the game at any point.

We missed a bit of courage to play out from the back. There’s a lot of things we need to change and do better. It was unacceptable.

The hat-trick heroes speak

Phil Foden

It’s a dream come true, being a City fan. We were right at it from kick-off and we took our chances. [Who gets the matchball?] I think we get one each, no?

Erling Haaland

Yeah, not bad. We scored six goals, what can you say? It’s nice. We always want to go forward, we always want to attack. This is what I love about the team. In the end, it’s amazing. There’s nothing more to say.

🗣️ "𝙒𝙚 𝙜𝙚𝙩 𝙤𝙣𝙚 𝙚𝙖𝙘𝙝, 𝙣𝙤?" 👀

Erling Haaland & Phil Foden on who will get to keep the match ball after they both scored a hat-trick in the Manchester derby. pic.twitter.com/Ics1jT25CZ

— Sky Sports Premier League (@SkySportsPL) October 2, 2022
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The scoreline flatters United, who were 6-1 down before the substitute Anthony Martial scored a couple of late facesavers. It was a very strange second half, mainly because the game was already over.

Full time: Manchester City 6-3 Manchester United

Peep peep! Manchester City move to within a point of Arsenal after butchering Manchester United in an incredible game at the Etihad. Phil Foden and Erling Haaland both scored hat-tricks, and the match was all over when City led 4-0 at half-time.

A match ball each. Photograph: Phil Noble/Reuters
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GOAL! Man City 6-3 Man Utd (Martial 90 pen)

Anthony Martial curls the penalty into the top-right corner. You don’t save those.

Anthony Martial tucks away the penalty. Photograph: Simon Stacpoole/Offside/Getty Images
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89 min Casemiro pings one from distance, and Ederson falls to his left to push it away. Decent strike.

86 min Antony shoots straight at Ederson from a tight angle. He had Eriksen in a better position in the middle.

85 min Alvarez misses a good chance to make it seven, miscontrolling Palmer’s low cross at the near post.

Eriksen sprayed a good pass out to Shaw on the left. He pushed it infield to Fred, who scampered past Akanji and hammered a shot from a tight angle that was beaten away by Ederson. Martial was first to react, heading the bouncing ball into the net from six yards.

80 min The City fans enjoy a bit of olé football until Fernandes fouls Akanji. He gives the referee a serve and is booked.

79 min “Haaland deserves his plaudits but it is worth noting that de Bruyne features in your descriptions of four of the six goals,” says Colum Farrelly. “His contributions are more subtle but he continues to be an essential part of City’s magnificence.”

His pass for the the which one was it third goal was sublime.

A reflection of how far United have fallen that the Etihad isn't really rocking. City fans are so used to seeing the team annihilate opponents it's almost expected. This result would have been seismic yesteryear. Not anymore.

— Samuel Luckhurst (@samuelluckhurst) October 2, 2022

75 min A quadruple substitution for City. Aymeric Laporte, Riyad Mahrez, Cole Palmer and Julian Alvarez replace Foden, De Bruyne, Grealish and Gundogan.

Beast stays on.

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Haaland was challenged by Casemiro, with the ball running through to Foden in the area. He controlled the ball on the half turn and swept it emphatically past de Gea at the near post.

70 min Fernandes’s lofted pass is taken off Shaw’s head by the stretching Cancelo. Good defending.

67 min Fernandes’s deflected long-range shot drops towards the unmarked Sancho on the six-yard line, but he can’t control the spinning ball. That was a chance.

We’ve never seen the like. City got their usual overload on the left, with De Bruyne finding Gomez in space. His precise cross bounced just in front of Haaland, 10 yards out, and he pinged it first-time past de Gea. That’s a savage finish. There’s a VAR check for offside against Gomez, but the goal stands.

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64 min: Just wide from Haaland! City open United up with two straight passes: first Ake to Bernardo Silva and then Silva to Haaland, galloping from centre to left. He takes the shot on the run and whips it into the side netting.

Bernardo Silva has had a great game today.

61 min Grealish, who has had one of his best days as a City player, wins a corner off Dalot. De Bruyne’s deep corner is headed back across goal by Ake towards Akanji, whose looping header is nodded away by Dalot in the six-yard box. I think it was going wide anyway.

59 min: Double change for Man Utd Casemiro and Anthony Martial replace Marcus Rashford and Scott McTominay.

Eriksen’s crossfield pass was missed by Grealish and collected by Antony. He cut inside, hugging the ball on his left foot, and hit a surprise, curling shot from 25 yards that flashed past Ederson and into the far corner. That was a brilliant strike, hit with very little backlift.

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