“Mind the gap”; “Old Trafford is falling down”; and “we’ve got Guardiola”: what a day for Manchester City fans who delighted in these choruses as their beloved team swatted aside an insipid, devoid-of-ideas Manchester United.
Erik ten Hag’s side failed miserably to give Sir Bobby Charlton what the great man would crave as he watched down from above: a victory. Or, even, a performance because, simply, they lacked any consistent creative plan and faced an opponent who, patently, possess one.
