The moment that summed up the gulf in class between Man City and Manchester United

For one brief moment in the second half of the 191st Manchester derby, City reduced Old Trafford to a training pitch. They swept from one end to the other, unchecked by the static defenders but moving men and ball with stylish and simplistic accuracy.

Ederson had the ball, but it moved through Kyle Walker, Julian Alvarez, Phil Foden, Jack Grealish, Bernardo Silva and Erling Haaland before ending up in the opposite net. It went from end-to-end, side-to-side, but United never got near it.

How you define the goal will depend on the colour of your shirt. For the 'boys in blue', as the away end sang, it was another work of art in City's increasingly impressive gallery. If red is your derby day colour of choice, then it was an indictment of everything wrong. Too easy, too soft.

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In reality, both can be right. It was too good from City, but too soft from United. City can score this type of goal against any team, but usually, they have to work a little harder for it.

What it did do was sum up the divide between these two sides of Manchester. 'Mind the gap', the away end had sung. It's impossible to avoid. It's now so wide that if you fell in you might never get out.

It was a move that ended with Haaland, perhaps destined to become the most clinical striker the English top flight has ever seen, given the freedom of half of the six-yard box to bury his header. There were 41 minutes to go but it felt like it was game over.

It's only 10 months since United won this derby, coming from behind late on to close within three points of City. At that stage, it did feel like the gap was closing, but it was just a City team struggling