Manchester United vs Manchester City - prediction, team news, lineups

Old rivals astatine Old Trafford header gameweek 4 of the 2026-27 Premier League season, arsenic Manchester United and Manchester City renew hostilities successful Sunday's 4.30pm kickoff.

The bitter adversaries some instrumentality to home work connected the backmost of Champions League triumphs, the Sky Blues sinking Porto 2-0 earlier the Red Devils doubled that full successful a 4-0 slaying of Sabah.

Match preview

Pre-season optimism has rapidly go early-season pessimism for those of a Man United persuasion, who person been near underwhelmed with the Red Devils' meagre full of 4 points from an opening 3 Premier League games, each of which were mismatches connected paper.

However, Michael Carrick's men lone made their squad dominance number successful their 5-2 battering of Ipswich Town, sandwiched successful betwixt a horrendous 2-0 Hull City decision and gut-wrenching 2-2 gully to an Everton broadside boasting conscionable 18 elder players.

Ainsley Maitland-Niles's astonishing leveller for the Toffees past play condemned Man United to an unwanted and unfamiliar fate, arsenic they person present conceded 2 goals successful each of their opening 3 league games for conscionable the 2nd clip successful 50 years, aft besides doing truthful successful the 2020-21 season.

Ole Gunnar Solskjaer's Red Devils ended up taking 2nd spot that year, suggesting that determination is nary crushed for premature panic astatine Old Trafford, who were successful precocious spirits erstwhile again connected Thursday evening erstwhile their charges swept speech UCL debutants Sabah.

A archetypal cleanable expanse of the play and third-straight aggregate extremity crippled could not person arrived astatine a amended clip for Carrick, who has besides prevailed successful 9 of his 10 Premier League location matches successful his 2nd spell and is aiming to go the archetypal Man Utd manager successful 113 years to triumph some of their opening Manchester derbies successful the league.

Only AH Albut successful 1895 and John Bentley successful 1913 person won some of their archetypal 2 Man Utd-Man City clashes arsenic Red Devils boss, but Carrick's other fig Enzo Maresca is besides aiming to articulation an elite assemblage of Sky Blues bosses connected Sunday.

Eight erstwhile Man City managers person won their archetypal league Manchester derbies - including 4 this period successful Kevin Keegan, Sven-Goran Eriksson, Manuel Pellegrini and Pep Guardiola - and Maresca has already led the visitors to the apical of the Premier League table.

Despite lone putting 1 past Coventry City past play - Erling Haaland's customary header - the Sky Blues are presently edging retired holders Arsenal connected goals scored, earlier the Gunners instrumentality connected Sunderland connected Saturday night.

From 3 consecutive wins to 4 consecutive successes, Man City's triumphant series continued connected Tuesday acknowledgment to Haaland's latest heroic act, a brace against Porto to instrumentality him up to a staggering 42 goals from 39 Champions League radical stage/league signifier games.

Victory for City connected Sunday would besides spot the Sky Blues triumph their archetypal 4 Premier League games of a play for the seventh antithetic clip - a caller outright record, overtaking Chelsea's six - but Guardiola's last sojourn to Old Trafford past play was a miserable one, arsenic Carrick's Man United prevailed 2-0 successful January's derby.

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Team News

Long-serving left-back Luke Shaw was a notable absentee from the Man Utd squad against Sabah, but Carrick revealed successful an update that the Englishman's lack was lone owed to the bout of cramp helium suffered astatine the Hill Dickinson Stadium.

Shaw should truthful beryllium fixed the greenish airy to commencement what volition beryllium his 300th Premier League game, but Carlos Baleba (ankle), Matthijs de Ligt (back), Manuel Ugarte (knee), Tom Heaton (hamstring) and Amad Diallo (ankle) are unavailable.

The Benjamin Sesko vs. Matheus Cunha enactment dilemma is dominating the Man Utd squad quality headlines, but aft some scored successful the triumph implicit Sabah, Marcus Rashford could yet beryllium the 1 to miss retired connected the archetypal XI.

Maresca has nary specified quandaries to lick up top, wherever Haaland seeks to physique connected a stellar grounds of 8 goals from 7 league appearances against Man United, though conscionable 2 of those strikes person travel astatine Old Trafford.

The Scandinavian volition astir surely person to bash truthful without Jeremy Doku, who is inactive struggling with a calf issue, but Nico O'Reilly is backmost to 100% aft pulling retired of the lineup to look Coventry with a backmost injury.

Enzo Fernandez was pressed into his afloat debut successful that fixture and should beryllium retained successful the XI aft besides shining against Porto - mounting up Haaland's header - but Ayyoub Bouaddi should marque mode for ex-Man Utd transportation people Elliot Anderson.

Manchester United imaginable starting lineup:

Lammens; Dalot, Maguire, Martinez, Shaw; Tielemans, Mainoo; Mbeumo, Fernandes, Cunha; Sesko

Manchester City imaginable starting lineup:

Donnarumma; Nunes, Guehi, Dias, Gvardiol; Anderson, Fernandez; Semenyo, Cherki, Ndiaye; Haaland

We say: Manchester United 2-2 Manchester City

Derby time has not ever gone according to the publication of late, arsenic Man City person won conscionable 1 of their past 4 Premier League games against Man United, whose fixtures this play person been thing if not entertaining.

Both clubs besides registered the astir shots connected people successful the archetypal 3 gameweeks - 19 apiece - truthful a high-scoring stalemate could precise good beryllium connected the cards.

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