Here again comes another Derby Match in the English Premier League Gameweek 16 as Manchester City will be hosting their traditional rivals Manchester United in their home ground Etihad Stadium 🏟️ in an amazing hour of 5:30 pm. Both teams will be coming into this game with high intensity and energy with the zeal to fight for the crucial points.
Manchester City enters the derby against rivals Manchester United as favorites, but unusually, that's not down to their current form. After a 2-0 loss to Juventus in the UEFA Champions League in the midweek, Pep Guardiola's men has suffered seven defeats from thier last ten matches across all competitions (W1, D2) - as many as in their previous 105 games. That leaves the defending champions eight points off the pace of the leaders Liverpool having played a game more heading into the weekend, so a fifth successive title now looks to be unrealistic.
Ruben Amorim first taste of the Manchester derby comes on the back comeback 2-1 win over Viktoria Plzen on Thursday, which not only snapped a two match losing streak but made the Portuguese just the third manager in the club history to win his first two European matches in charge. He'll hope that's not the only way he follows the footsteps of Sir Alex Ferguson and Sir Matt Busby, though the last time Manchester United lost four successive visits to City was under Busby in 1952 and 1955.