Pep Guardiola conceded Manchester City could not live with the pace of Manchester United's attacking players in Saturday's 2-1 derby defeat.

Visitors United constantly exposed their opponents on the counter at the Etihad Stadium, helping them move into a two-goal lead inside the opening half-hour.

Marcus Rashford won and then converted a penalty before Anthony Martial fired in a second after being picked out by Daniel James.

Guardiola talked up United's counter-attacking threat on the eve of the match, but the City head coach has admitted his side ultimately had no answer to the trio.

"I like how my team played," he said at his post-match news conference. "We conceded a little bit more space - not more than usual, but more than last year against United.

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if ajax coach could coach man u with this fast players we would go far the pace manu use for counter attack is great we would have done the same for liverpool but their defence


like cardi b said mad oooooo

Anything can still happen, I pity those that had written man city off the title already.

Weirdgee:
Anything can still happen, I pity those that had written man city off the title already.

With 14 points clear. Liverpool can’t let that happen

Timileyin1234:

With 14 points clear. Liverpool can’t let that happen

let's wait and see.