Manchester United can still inflict telling blow on City’s title hopes
In a game that may decide who wins the Premier League, United’s players have a chance to react with the race for the top four still wide open
This is the one, this is the one – we have waited for. Although perhaps not quite like this. There have been plenty of epic-scale, thunderously-billed, pundit-gurgling Manchester derbies in the Premier League years, games to match Old Trafford’s stirring pre-match soundtrack. But never one as apparently empty of red-shirted hope as Wednesday’s meeting, a game that will come close to deciding the destiny of the league title.
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