SCORE: 1st Half

MANCHESTER CITY 0-1 (Rashford) MANCHESTER UNITED

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Barclays Premier League Tie between Manchester City and Manchester United

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Date: March 20th, 2016

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Kick off BST: 16:00

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Venue: Etihad Stadium, Manchester

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Starting XI's:

Manchester United F.C.	Manchester City F.C
De Gea	Hart
Darmian	Sagna
Smalling	Demichelis
Blind	Mangala
Rojo	Clichy
Carrick	Fernandinho
Schneiderlin	Toure
Lingard	Silva
Mata	Navas
Martial	Aguero
Rashford	Sterling

Man Utd F.C. SUBS: Romero, Fosu-Mensah, Valencia, Fellaini, Schweinsteiger, Januzaj, Memphis.

Man City SUBS: Caballero, Zabaleta, Kolarov, Fernando, M.Garcia, Bony, Iheanacho

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Team news:

• Schneiderlin finally fucking starts with Carrick in the midfield.

• Memphis is on the bench with Januzaj

• Schweinsteiger returns to the bench again.

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UPDATES:

FIRST HALF UPDATES:

0' KICK OFF

0' In the most important game of our season, City kick off in their light blue. United in red. We're underway!

5' It doesn't look like it's going to be a cagey game with both teams surging forward. City with the upper hand so far though.

7' Navas almost scores a scorcher as Sterling runs down the wing and chips it into the box, the ball is headed into the air and Navas chests to control and unleashes a left-footed volley just wide.

9' MANCHESTER UNITED YELLOW CARD Smalling gets turned by Aguero at the half and now has a yellow for tugging him back. Last time Oliver reffed this match, Smalling was sent off.

12' United with a sequence of corners that come to nothing. The following attack from City results in a De Gea save from Navas.

14' MANCHESTER UNITED GOAL RASHFORD SCORES!!! RASHFORD RECEIVES THE BALL FROM MATA ON THE EDGE OF THE BOX, KNOCKS THE BALL PAST DEMICHELIS AND SLOTS THE BALL PAST HART!!! WE'RE 1-0 UP!

20' City have a free kick around 10 yards outside the box. Silva will whip it in but it's missed by all and goes out for a goal kick.

25' MANCHESTER CITY SUBSTITUTION Fernando ON || Sterling OFF

26' Sterling is replaced after being injured from a prior tackle.

32' Truly a good game on right now. Both United and City look dangerous when they push forward and United are finally looking slightly creative.

41' Nothing much has happened in the past 10 minutes, but Blind is now down in the middle of the field clutching his leg.

44' City are surging and the game is starting to heat up. We need half-time to calm everything down again.

45' TWO MINUTE ADDED

45+1' Rashford is denied a stonewall penalty! Brilliant interplay on the wing and Rashford darts into the box only to be cut off and bundled over by Demichelis. We should have a penalty.

45+2' HALF TIME

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SECOND HALF UPDATES:

45' United get the second half underway!

47' Demichelis sells Hart short and Martial comes close to cutting it off. Hart is down and needs treatment.

48' MANCHESTER CITY SUBSTITUTION Hart is on a stretcher and Willy Caballero is coming on. Caballero ON || Hart OFF

51' MANCHESTER CITY SUBSTITUTION Bony ON || Demichelis OFF

55' City have sacrificed defence for attack and it's opened up the game quite a bit.

61' MANCHESTER UNITED SUBSTITUTION Valencia ON || Rojo OFF

61' It looks like it'll be Valencia at RB and Darmian moving across.

65' It's been all City so far and Aguero hits the post with their most recent chance. We need to start controlling the ball.

70' MANCHESTER UNITED SUBSTITUTION Schweinsteiger ON || Mata OFF

71' City are penetrating through every gap in our defence and are looking increasingly likely to score. We need to get our shit together. The latest chance was a succession of balls teasing across our 6 yard box that ends with a corner.

76' MANCHESTER CITY YELLOW CARD After sustained City pressure, Lingard is fouled in the City half by Mangala and a good free kick swinging in results in a goal kick.

80' If you want an indication of the pressure, at 60 minutes it was 11 City shots to our 5. 20 minutes later it's 22 shots to our 5.

83' MANCHESTER UNITED SUBSTITUTION Fosu-Mensah ON || Darmian OFF

86' Rashford is down with cramp but United can't afford to get treatment on or have more added time so Martial decides to take on the entire City team by himself and eventually wins a free kick. He's actually incredible.

90' SIX MINUTES ADDED

90' An absolutely ridiculous amount of added time. Unfortunately it's probably warranted.

92' All hands on deck with 21 of the 22 players in the United half.

95' One minute left but the Emptyhad has been emptying out for about 10 mins at this point.

96' FULL TIME