Winning In The Champions League, Manchester United's Man City Aims At Manchester Derby

Manchester City striker Erling Haaland celebrated the goal against Young Boys. (Twitter @ManCity)

JAKARTA - Manchester City picked the perfect result in the Champions League match. Appearing in the away match in Group G at the Wankdorf Stadium, Thursday, October 26 in the morning WIB, Man City beat BSC Young Boys 3-1. This victory is an important capital for Man City to face Manchester United in the Manchester Derby this weekend.

Winning and achieving perfect results in European competitions. Man City got nine points from three games that all won.

The result made the defending champion stronger at the top of the standings. Man City also opened up opportunities to qualify for the knockout round.

Meanwhile, Young Boys are ranked third with point one. The same as FK Crvena Zvezda or Red Star Belgrade who were defeated by RB Leipzig 3-1. Leipzig himself is in second place after having six points.

Even though they won with a pretty big score, Pep Guardiola's manager was worried because the team still didn't show their best performance. His exit, Man City will play Manchester Derby at Old Trafford, Sunday, October 29. Man City is still above MU after a long time of shadowing the Red Devils. It's just that, recently MU has shown a brilliant performance.

They always appear with high enthusiasm and passion that lead MU to victory. This was shown by MU when they won 1-0 over Copenhagen in the Champions League.

Man City itself is actually in the best condition. However, Guardiola claims players seem to have experienced a decrease in enthusiasm and motivation after winning treble last season. Moreover, the team is still missing senior midfielder Kevin De Bruyne who has not recovered from injury.

However, Guardiola did not show satisfaction because he managed to get three points in the away match. They will also again qualify for the knockout round.

"It was a special game. We played badly, especially in the first half. We faced opponents who had a very good physique so they were very aggressive," said Guardiola.

"We mathematically also need one or two games to win to qualify," he said.

In that match, Man City had difficulties in facing Young Boys' insistence game. Relying on striker Ering Haaland, the Cityzens attack always failed to penetrate the host's defense which was quite solid.

Man City seemed unable to do anything throughout the first half. The deadlock was finally broken by defender Manuel Akanji who scored in the 48th minute.

The goal started with a Man City attack and led to Ruben Dias' header which goalkeeper Anthony Raciappi could still throw away. But the ball went wild which was then used by Akanji.

Left behind 1-0 does not make Young Boys confused. Only four minutes later, they immediately got up and responded through Meschack Elia.

The match became even more interesting because both teams attacked each other. But the luckyr Man City. Haaland successfully brought Man City back ahead after scoring from the penalty spot in the 67th minute.

Penalti diberikan setelah Mohamed Camara melakukan pelanggaran dengan menelelek Rodri di kotak terlarang. Wasit menunjuk titik putih dan Haaland mengaksekkannya dengan baik.

This is Haaland's first goal in six games in the Champions League.

Haaland, next, added a goal and scored a brace in the 86th minute. This time Rodri's assist was completed with a hard kick into the top corner of the goal. The score changed to 3-1 for Man City and lasted until the final whistle sounded.