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Leeds head into a new era under Jesse Marsch, Dele Alli hopes to haunt Spurs and Brentford must stop sliding. But the Manchester derby is king.

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Ole Gunnar Solskjaer accepted a 2-0 home defeat to “the best team in the country” who had “set the standard” by April 2019.

Jose Mourinho thought his players “were below the level to play this match” before a slight second-half improvement in a 2-1 loss at Old Trafford in September 2016.

Louis van Gaal actually claimed that Manchester City’s 1-0 derby victory in November 2014 proved “the difference is zero” between the two sides, contrarian that he is.

David Moyes “made the players aware of how I expect them to respond” after a 4-1 Etihad humbling in September 2013. Manchester United lost to West Brom the next week and after another derby battering the following March, he described their bitter rivals as “playing at the sort of level we’re aspiring to”. He was sacked 27 days later.

Almost a decade of being drowned out by their noisy neighbours has bred an inferiority complex that might take just as long to cancel out. Ralf Rangnick is the latest coach tasked with bridging that gap of quality and infrastructure over 90 minutes, even if an unlikely victory would only bring them to within 16 points of the current leaders.

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