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Manchester United entertain Manchester Metropolis at Outdated Trafford tomorrow (Sunday) afternoon, in what would be the 191st Manchester Derby.
The neighbours will lock horns for the primary time this season with Erik ten Hag determined to kick begin what has been a stuttering opening to his second marketing campaign in cost.
Pep Guardiola’s Treble winners stay the group to beat and can look to shut the hole on the prime of the Premier League desk with a win.
Regardless of Metropolis’s current dominance, United nonetheless have the stranglehold on the fixture all through it’s historical past, successful 78 of the 190 video games.
As reported by Sports activities Mole, Metropolis have recorded 59 victories down the years and shall be favourites so as to add to their numbers on Sunday.
The 2 sides have drawn 53 occasions and Ten Hag may be tempted to take a degree if supplied to him earlier than the sport, given United’s current kind.
The Premier League numbers additionally presently weigh in United’s favour with 25 wins from the 52 prime flight encounters.
Nonetheless, Metropolis are making up floor with 18 victories. 9 of the entire Premier League video games have resulted in a stalemate.
United will look to take inspiration from their final success over Guardiola’s males, which got here within the league at Outdated Trafford final season.
Ten Hag’s males needed to come from behind on the day and objectives from Bruno Fernandes and Marcus Rashford rendered Jack Grealish’s opener redundant.
Nonetheless, Metropolis have gained 4 of the final 5 fixtures in all competitions together with the FA Cup ultimate in June and a 6-3 demolition of United on the Etihad within the league final season, which is the very best scoring Manchester Derby on report.
Erling Haaland and Phil Foden each scored hat-tricks within the disastrous afternoon for United final October and, unsurprisingly, that’s the one time there have been two hat-tricks in the identical fixture.
Russian ahead Andrei Kanchelskis stays the final United participant to attain a hat-trick in opposition to Metropolis, stealing the present in a 5-0 win at Maine Street in November 1994.
Metropolis’s final win at Outdated Trafford got here in November of 2021 and United shall be determined to make sure that stays the final time.
By way of goalscorers, Wayne Rooney stays the all-time main scorer within the fixture with a whopping 11 objectives.
Francis Lee and Joe Hayes are Metropolis’s joint-highest scorers in opposition to United, with each gamers registering ten occasions in opposition to the pink half of Manchester.
With data there to be damaged, the stage is about for an additional participant to etch his title into the historical past books of one among most historic fixtures in world soccer.
