So many do no believe that Manchester United will beat Manchester city in the current form of Manchester city. I do not even know if the Manchester United fans believed what was going to happen. Manchester city had won many matches and they are addicted to win. So, they don't plan how to prevent lossing but they plan how to win. This is why if any club take them by surprise, they will not have a good damage control mechanism to mitigate losses.
When I saw the strange formation of Erik Ten Hang, I was quite surprised by it and then I remembered that the last time he did such a strange formation, he won. So I became confident that something nice could come out. When I saw 2 goals in HT, I knew it was over because Manchester United has a handful of their defenders available and that is why we saw the good result.
I don't know how to rate it but I know too many Manchester United fans had doubts even the legends had doubts about the game. The only person I saw having a slight faith and hope even though it's dangerous has got to be Gary Neville.
They made so many errors, also some people said England did favored Manchester United by not awarding the penalty for Erling Haaland.
Asides that, I also heard talks of the game being fixed, some said you can clarify with that goal scored by Garnacho but I don't think so. It was clearly miscommunication between defender and goalkeeper.
There was nothing strange about that formation, it was a normal four two three one formation. The thing is you made use of flashscore and what you saw was totally bizzare and strange.
It was Bruno Fernandez playing as a false nine but still supported in midfied, even when Kobbie had yellow, Bruno Fernandez had to drop deep for him to go ahead so as to avoid a double yellow.
They used this same formation against Newcastle United, Brighton and now Manchester City.
Asides the goal scores, Manchester United had players like Andre Onana with many saves, Sofyan Amrabat in midfied, Diego Dalot and Aaron Wan Bisakka pocketing Jeremy Doku all throughout that game.