Man City trio channel David Silva to embarrass Manchester United and show new derby day passion

After three-and-a-half years the Etihad Stadium finally witnessed a Manchester City win against Manchester United on Sunday, but the final result was not the only sign that the good times have returned.

Pep Guardiola's side edged out a tightly-fought first half, during which Kevin de Bruyne scored either side of a Jadon Sancho equaliser, but after half-time City were back to their dominating best.

United simply could not cope with the Blues in the second period, so much so that they seemingly gave up trying to. Ralf Rangnick's side particularly struggled to cope with City's attacks down the left-hand-side; at one point in the second half, over 80% of City's attacks were coming down that flank.

The left-wing has probably been City's favoured route of attack this season and on Sunday Jack Grealish, Bernardo Silva and Joao Cancelo showed just why.

The trio terrorised United all afternoon with their passing triangles and movements, each of them rotating positions and moving into seemingly non-existent space to tie United's defenders into all sorts of knots.

Kevin de Bruyne's early opener partly showed this, even if Cancelo stayed out of the attack. Grealish and Bernardo combined superbly, the former running off the wing to slip in the latter inside the left channel.

Bernardo occupied three defenders before crossing, leaving United woefully understaffed in the penalty area and De Bruyne completely unmarked.

They continued to run rings around their rival's defence in the second half too, as Cancelo pushing up into midfield allowed the trio to get closer together and helped City to keep possession and control the game.

The constant worker-bee movement dragged the likes of Aaron Wan-Bissaka, Victor Lindelof and Scott McTominay