Man City's Everton and Spurs struggles give Manchester United route to derby day glory

Manchester United face Manchester City in a derby which is huge for both teams on Sunday.

For United's noisy neighbours a loss could hand Liverpool an advantage in the title race, while a win could reignite the Reds' chances of a top-four place.

City have been short of their best in the past couple of weeks, dragging themselves to a 1-0 win against Everton after losing 3-2 to Spurs. Within those games are lessons that United and Ralf Rangnick need to learn.

Using clips from Wyscout, let's look at two instances, one in defence and one in attack, that could benefit United if they were to adopt a similar tactic against City on Sunday.

Defence - Everton

Everton put up a spirited performance against City and were unlucky to lose. The way they defended City was particularly notable, doubling and tripling up to stop attacks.

In this instance, we can see Raheem Sterling on the ball and both Seamus Coleman, who was playing right-back, and Alex Iwobi come to meet him on the wing. Mason Holgate holds back and marks his man, but is keeping an eye on the situation.

Not seeing a clear path, Sterling tries to feign a dribble, but at this point both defenders engage. Iwobi is particularly important in this move because, while moving towards the England winger, he blocks the pass to Joao Cancelo.

In United's 2-0 loss against City earlier this season, Cancelo undid a lot of our hard work in defence by providing an overlapping and underlapping option for Phil Foden on the left-wing. It led to a torrid afternoon for Aaron Wan-Bissaka.

If United deploy Anthony Elanga and he operates in the same way as Iwobi on the right, then they should be able to avoid the situation repeating at the Etihad.

Overall this is a strong example of Everton