Daily soccer fixtures and results

Daily soccer results and fixtures

Today at 21:00 PM we had a great Citizen derby kick off, an English derby between the best two teams in Manchester. The blues and reds. Manchester City vs Manchester United at Etihad Stadium.

This not so exciting match had offered so many chances, had the potential to be a great match, probably match of the month but sadly, at the end, the match finished without goals, as that means a draw. The final result was 0:0.

Now the starting 11 for both teams were this. First for the home team (Manchester City) the starting eleven were: Bravo, Kolarov, Otamendi, Kompany, Zabaleta, Fernandinho, Toure, Kevin De Bruyne, Sane, Sterling, and Aguero.

Starting eleven for Man. Utd: David De Gea on the goal, Valencia, Bailly, Blind, Darmian, Fellaini, Carrick, Ander Herrera, Mkhitaryan, Rashford, and Martial.

Now during the game, in the both first and second half, both teams demonstrated an attacking and open game, but I guess their defense and goalkeepers were at top class today so neither teams left a ball to enter the net. Manchester City showed a more interesting and controlling game, as their final ball possession was 68% as opposed to Manchester Utd’s 32%.

In the second half, nothing changed much besides the remarkable red card of Manchester United captain, Marouane Fellaini in the 84th minute. He did not get directly sent off as he has received a yellow card earlier in the match and now a second yellow card leading him to a red card and straight to the change room.

This match didn’t change much the table, except that Manchester City is 4th place in the table with 66 points, and Manchester United with 65 points, only 1 point behind them.

A victory for Manchester City would mean a direct enter to the top 3 teams in the table as they would have more points than Liverpool, they would have 68, and Liverpool has 68 currently, 2 more than Manchester City.

While a victory for the Reds would mean sliding to the top 4 as they would have 2 more points than Manchester City. None of this happened. The result ended up 0:0.