Ruben Amorim secured his two biggest victories with Manchester United at City

The last time Manchester United won at the Etihad, the supporters were locked out. On Sunday, more than 3,000 enjoyed a lock-in across three tiers.

Ruben Amorim's rhetoric is music to United fans' ears and Amorim's chant was added to their derby day soundtrack. Sunday represented the two most meaningful victories of Amorim's brief tenure.

Beating City, even this poor imitation of the supreme City that has left United in their shadow, was a scalp. To do so with two of United's most gifted players stewing at home whilst fit marked another victory arguably greater than three points.

Amorim had total authority before he stepped foot in Carrington and he will be further empowered by his handling of Marcus Rashford and Alejandro Garnacho. On a day that United were often blunted by having two full backs on the wings while two wingers watched on television, another winger won it.

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Omari Forson came on for his sixth appearance for Monza at the weekend. Amorim magnanimously credited Erik ten Hag for bringing Amad into the United first team yet he was inexplicably sceptical of a talent whose £37million fee in 2020 was a rare piece of shrewd business by the club. It was only in February that Ten Hag started the limited Forson ahead of Amad.

"Now let's be careful with Amad," Amorim stressed, "don’t make the same mistakes we made in the past with the younger guys. Let's push him down a little bit, praise him, but the next game is a new story and he must continue to work hard."

Yesteryear, Rashford left the Etihad as the United poster boy and local hero. Nobody in the Etihad away end missed him and the