Kevin’s Kevin de Bruyne’s Mercuneter derby – Friday announced that he will abandon the Etihad at the end of the course – will not go down in history. It dawned by the bad classification of United (13th) and City (5th) and the absences of Haaland, Rodri and Diallo … and no longer traced: 0-0.
The 196th edition of the Manchester derby, rather than the fear of losing, was chaired by the lack of competitive tension. It will go directly to the museum of horrors … and of errors. Foden threatened with a shot that hit the side of the network in 10 ‘. Then two pifias came … Each worse: Garnacho did not succeed to head in the mouth of a goal of Diogo Dalot in 20 ‘and Ugarte finished off the clouds, in the semifallo, a chopped pass by Bruno Fernandes in 29’.
Dalot’s boarding schools, Bruno’s leaked passes and Garnacho’s dribbles almost always ended anything. The most dangerous thing was a cross shot from Gündogan that came out touching the post in 40 ‘.
The City improved as soon as I get out of the break. Mazraoui stole Foden’s wallet in 48 ‘, when he was preparing to rifle Onana. The number 1 of United, so many times discussed, starred in two merit stops: it flew to clear a foul of Marmoush in 65 ‘and took out the fists in 69’ to clear an Egyptian howbils from the front.
Ederson did not want to be less and wore to divert an acrobatic auction from Zirkzee in 77 ‘. A possible penalty of Kovacic to Casemiro – the entire game in the Quito – was able to put the derby spicy. Not that. John Brooks did not consider it and the VAR, either.
Roy Keane cataloged him as a “friendly game” at the break and was not wrong. Surely it is not the end that Guardiola would have liked for the last derby of De Bruyne.