{"id":418847,"date":"2026-01-17T10:03:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-17T10:03:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/418847\/"},"modified":"2026-01-17T10:03:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-17T10:03:07","slug":"manchester-united-vs-manchester-city-live-latest-updates-scores-commentary-analysis-from-manchester-derby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/418847\/","title":{"rendered":"Manchester United vs Manchester City LIVE: Latest Updates, scores, commentary, analysis from Manchester derby"},"content":{"rendered":"

Manchester United<\/a> kick off the new Michael Carrick-era with the small matter of the Manchester derby as Arsenal<\/a>-chasing Manchester City<\/a> arrive at Old Trafford looking to keep up the pressure on the Premier League<\/a> table toppers. You can follow it all live, right here with ESPN (the blog will appear below the short preview text).<\/p>\n

The last time Michael Carrick took charge<\/a> of Man United, they beat Villarreal<\/a>, drew Chelsea<\/a> and beat Arsenal but that was four and some years ago, and what’s ahead of him is a whole different proposition. United are coming off the disastrous reign of Ruben Amorim and find themselves out of both EFL and FA Cups and need a proper top 4 challenge to salvage the season. On contract only till this summer, Carrick’s task is multifold: help with that challenge, lift the mood at Old Trafford, and integrate United’s academy players into the senior team in a way Amorim never did. He was often accused of tactical inflexibility at Middlesborough — where he started brightly before fading towards the end — and he’ll be keen to redress that at a club that, as Amorim found out, demands at least a certain degree of flexibility.<\/p>\n

Carrick’s task won’t be easy, and that’s underlined by his first opponents. Man City, coming off the signing of the brilliant Antoine Semenyo<\/a> are looking to mount one of their famous charges to the title, even as Arsenal have opened a six-point lead atop the league. Semenyo is a threat — as he showed at Old Trafford just last month — but importantly for Pep Guardiola, Rodri<\/a> is back, and the former Balon d’Or winner adds a measure of quality to the City squad that is incomparable to anyone else in the league. Meanwhile, Erling Haaland<\/a> will be raring to have a go at one of his favourite opponents (only against RB Leipzig<\/a>, West Ham and Wolves does Haaland have more goals than United) and he’ll take some stopping.<\/p>\n

Old Trafford’s set for a classic, and we’ve got you covered from the off:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Manchester United kick off the new Michael Carrick-era with the small matter of the Manchester derby as Arsenal-chasing…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":418848,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-418847","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-football","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418847","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=418847"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418847\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/418848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=418847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=418847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=418847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}