In a game that may decide who wins the Premier League, United’s players have a chance to react with the race for the top four still wide open
This is the one, this is the one – we have waited for. Although perhaps not quite like this. There have been plenty of epic-scale, thunderously-billed, pundit-gurgling Manchester derbies in the Premier League years, games to match Old Trafford’s stirring pre-match soundtrack. But never one as apparently empty of red-shirted hope as Wednesday’s meeting, a game that will come close to deciding the destiny of the league title.
Listening to the background chat during a week when even Paul Pogba has pronounced himself shocked – shocked! – to find meandering levels of commitment in the Manchester United midfield, and you could be forgiven for concluding United’s post-imperial decline is now complete.
Written by Barney Ronay
This news first appeared on https://www.theguardian.com/football/2019/apr/23/manchester-united-city-title-hopes-killer-blow under the title “Manchester United can still inflict telling blow on City’s title hopes | Barney Ronay”. Bolchha Nepal is not responsible or affiliated towards the opinion expressed in this news article.
