Manchester Derby: Pep Guardiola achieves remarkable feat

Pep Guardiola has achieved a unique feat during the Manchester Derby on Saturday at the Old Trafford.

According to Opta, this will be Pep Guardiola’s 500th game of his top-flight managerial career. He has won 379 of his 499 games to date (76%), with this the most wins and best win rate (100+ games) of any manager in Europe’s big-five leagues since his first season in 2008-09.

Erling Haaland and Kevin De Bruyne have returned to the starting line up as City make eight changes in total for today’s trip to Manchester United.

Alongside Haaland and De Bruyne, who will lead the side, Ederson, Manuel Akanji, Nathan Ake, Rodrigo, Bernardo Silva and Riyad Mahrez also come into Pep Guardiola’s starting eleven from the side that began Wednesday’s Carabao Cup quarter-final at Southampton.

From the eleven that started at the St Mary’s Stadium, Stefan Ortega, Sergio Gomez, Aymeric Laporte, Kalvin Phillips, Ilkay Gundogan, Jack Grealish, Julian Alvarez and Cole Palmer all revert to the bench.

Meanwhile, United made nine changes to the XI on duty for the Carabao Cup quarter-final win over Charlton Athletic.

Luke Shaw starts alongside Raphael Varane in defense, with Tyrell Malacia and Aaron Wan-Bissaka the two full-backs.

Anthony Martial has been declared fit to lead the line while Antony is on the bench.

Team news

United: De Gea, Wan-Bissaka, Shaw, Varane, Malacia, Fred, Casemiro, Eriksen, Fernandes, Rashford, Martial.

Subs: Heaton, Lindelöf, Maguire, Martínez, Antony, Elanga, McTominay, Mainoo

City: Ederson, Walker, Akanji, Ake, Cancelo, Rodri, De Bruyne, Bernardo, Mahrez, Foden, Haaland

Subs: Ortega, Phillips, Gündogan, Grealish, Laporte, Alvarez, Gómez, Palmer, Lewis

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