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2 min United have started with Amad as the left-sided No10 and Mbeumo on the right.
1 min City kick off from left to right as we watch – and Haaland snaps a volley just wide inside 16 seconds! Excellent effort, from a tight angle on the left side of the box, and a statement of City’s intent.
The players gather round the centre circle for a minute’s applause in memory of Ricky Hatton. Pep Guardiola looks particularly emotional on the touchline.
The players and fans pay tribute to Ricky Hatton. Photograph: Jason Cairnduff/Action Images/ReutersShare
Updated at 11.34 EDT
A reminder of the teams
Man City (4-3-3) Donnarumma; Khusanov, Dias, Gvardiol, O’Reilly; Bernardo, Rodri, Reijnders; Foden, Haaland, Doku.
Subs: Trafford, Ake, Nico, Savinho, Nunes, Bobb, Mukasa, Lewis, Mfuni.
Man Utd (3-4-2-1) Bayindir; Yoro, De Ligt, Shaw; Mazraoui, Ugarte, Fernandes, Dorgu; Amad, Mbeumo; Sesko.
Subs: Heaton, Lammens, Fredricson, Heaven, Leon, Maguire, Casemiro, Mainoo, Zirkzee.
Referee Anthony Taylor.
Gianluigi Donnarumma warms up ahead of his Manchester City debut. Photograph: Nick Potts/PAShare
Updated at 11.28 EDT
Ruben Amorim’s pre-match thoughts
He’s ready to start, it’s a good game for him. The injuries to Matheus Cunha and Mason Mount [are a factor] but we want him to use his pace behind the defence.
[On the omission of Kobbie Mainoo and Amad moving up to No10] We need a winger playing inside more than an extra midfielder; that’s my feeling. I think we will have space in behind.
Manchester United manager Ruben Amorim greets his City counterpart Pep Guardiola before the match. Photograph: Jason Cairnduff/Action Images/ReutersShare
Updated at 11.32 EDT
Pep Guardiola pays tribute to Ricky Hatton
It was tough news to wake up to. Of course he had success and was world champion, but it’s the loss for his family, his kids; he was a grandad. It’s so tough for everyone.
Updated at 11.12 EDT
Match report: Burnley 0-1 Liverpool
Premier League result: Burnley 0-1 Liverpool
Liverpool have made it four wins out of four, and four dramatic late wins at that, after Mo Salah’s 95th-minute penalty shattered an heroic Burnley defence.
Erling Haaland’s pre-match thoughts
ShareJamie Jackson on The Ruben Show
A first United defeat by League Two opposition in the second‑tier cup competition will always be a big deal. But zoom out a smidgeon and the wider picture in the bread and butter of the league was two matches played and a point taken (not great but also no seismic disaster) and United motor across town for Sunday’s 197th derby with four points, one more than Pep Guardiola’s garlanded Manchester City, who are winless since the opening day.
So is it reasonable to consider Amorim’s position under threat three league games into a season? Certifiably not. Is this simply life for the gent in the hottest of football seats? Certainly.
Man Utd make four changes, three because of injury. Diogo Dalot, Matheus Cunha and Mason Mount are all unavailable; Casemiro’s ageing legs are deemed unsuitable for this particular challenge.
The replacements are Patrick Dorgu, Noussai Mazraoui, Manuel Ugarte – and Benjamin Sesko, who makes his full Premier League debut.
Pep Guardiola has made six changes to the team that lost at Brighton a fortnight ago. Gianluigi Donnarumma, Ruben Dias, Josko Gvardiola, Nico O’Reilly, Phil Foden and Jeremy Doku come in for James Trafford, Matheus Nunes, John Stones, Rayan Ait-Nouri, Oscar Bobb and Omar Marmoush.
ShareJonathan Wilson on Pep Guardiola’s place in a changing world
The environment is akin to England after the reliance on W-M and the winger was shattered by Hungary in 1953, or 19th-century Europe after scientific discoveries had provoked the crisis of faith. If none of the previous assumptions are true, if we cannot trust the old doctrine, how do we know what is right?
This is the world that produced Charles Darwin and Friedrich Nietzsche and had Arthur Conan Doyle attending seances and believing in fairies, just as managers in the 50s started trialling strike pairings and back fours and had the Doncaster manager Peter Doherty assigning players with random numbers to spread confusion. Nobody knows what is true any more, and the consequence is a chaotic world of experimentation.
ShareTeam news: Donnarumma, Sesko start
Man City (4-3-3) Donnarumma; Khusanov, Dias, Gvardiol, O’Reilly; Bernardo, Rodri, Reijnders; Foden, Haaland, Doku.
Subs: Trafford, Ake, Nico, Savinho, Nunes, Bobb, Mukasa, Lewis, Mfuni.
Man Utd (3-4-2-1) Bayindir; Yoro, De Ligt, Shaw; Mazraoui, Ugarte, Fernandes, Dorgu; Amad, Mbeumo; Sesko.
Subs: Heaton, Lammens, Fredricson, Heaven, Leon, Maguire, Casemiro, Mainoo, Zirkzee.
Referee Anthony Taylor.
Updated at 10.26 EDT
Before the game there will be a tribute to boxing legend and City fan Ricky Hatton, who has died at the age of just 46.
SharePreamble
It’s 3 February 1990. No really, folks, it is! FW de Klerk has just announced plans to release Nelson Mandela from prison; Mike Tyson is a week away from pummelling Buster Douglas; Tears on my Pillow, Kylie Minogue’s epic meditation on love, loss and secretion from the lachrymal glands, is being kept off top spot by some Prince knock-off.
And the Manchester derby is taking place at Old Trafford. Seventh-place United and 14th-place City draw 1-1 in a lively contest, with Clayton Blackmore’s excellent goal cancelled out by a screamer from Ian Brightwell.
That was the last time the Manchester derby took place with both teams in the bottom half of the table*. Today’s game is 16th v 11th and, though there are some simple reasons for that – it’s early in the season, they’ve played a game fewer than most of the teams above them – it’s also a reflection of the reduced status of both clubs.
City have lost two of the first three games and the word on the street is that Pep Guardiola is yesterday’s visionary; United are United. To judge a team after a handful of games is absurd, reductive, infantile, pathetic; it’s also the norm.
Woe betide whoever loses today.
Kick off 4.30pm.