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Manchester United will be going in search of their fifth win in their last six visits to the Etihad Stadium when they face Manchester City in the latest chapter of the Manchester derby on Sunday afternoon.
United, who will make the short hop across the city 19 points behind Pep Guardiola's side in the table, have enjoyed plenty of success in their neighbours' own backyard in recent years. This period of current success in the blue half of the city started in April 2018 when the Reds staged a stunning comeback.
Trailing 2-0 at half-time, meaning City were 45 minutes away from laying their hands on the Premier League title, United, inspired by a Jose Mourinho team talk, battled back to claim a stunning and unlikely 3-2 win. Second-half strikes from Paul Pogba, who scored twice, and Chris Smalling sealed all three points and the local bragging rights.
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Considering United were woeful in the first 45 minutes, suggestions of a fightback would have been laughed at outside of the away dressing room at the half-time interval. But not inside the walls of the dressing room, with Mourinho calling on his players to step up and not be the 'clowns' that would watch City lift their third Premier League title at the end of the game.
"At half-time there were a lot of us feeling sorry for ourselves," Smalling told Sky Sports. "The first-half was terrible, we dropped off and didn't play our game and City could have been out of sight.
"He [Mourinho] didn't have to say too much, he emphasised that we don't want to be the clowns who stand there and see them with their trophy. We stepped up.
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