{"id":572470,"date":"2025-11-15T17:44:18","date_gmt":"2025-11-15T17:44:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/572470\/"},"modified":"2025-11-15T17:44:18","modified_gmt":"2025-11-15T17:44:18","slug":"man-city-thrash-manchester-united-in-derby-wsl-meeting-at-the-etihad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/572470\/","title":{"rendered":"Man City thrash Manchester United in derby WSL meeting at the Etihad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Manchester City beat Man United 3-0 in the WSL at the Etihad Stadium on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>15:33, 15 Nov 2025Updated 15:35, 15 Nov 2025<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/0_GettyImages-2246821798.jpg\" alt=\"City celebrate taking the lead\" loading=\"eager\"  \/>City celebrate taking the lead<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\" publication=\"men\">Manchester City Women secured the three points and the bragging rights as they demolished local rivals <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk\/all-about\/manchester-united-fc\" target=\"\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">Manchester United<\/a> 3-0 in the Women&#8217;s Super League on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\" publication=\"men\">City made a rapid start to the contest but were unable to find a breakthrough as United slowly found a foothold in the game. The deadlock was finally broken shortly after the halfway point in the opening 45 minutes, with Khadija Shaw nodding Lauren Hemp&#8217;s delivery across for Rebecca Knaak to head home.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\" publication=\"men\">Leah Galton had a half-hearted appeal for a penalty waved away as United searched for an equaliser and <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk\/all-about\/manchester-city-fc\" target=\"_self\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">City<\/a> took full control as they doubled their advantage just two minutes before the break. United felt there was a foul in the build-up to the goal but the referee wasn&#8217;t interested and Kerstin Casparij delivered for Shaw to prod home.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\" publication=\"men\">The game was effectively ended as a contest before the interval as some sloppy play from United handed possession back to City. Hemp took full advantage as she fired a brilliant effort into the top corner to make it 3-0 to the home side.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/0_GettyImages-2246824382.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\"  \/>Rebecca Knaak heads towards goal<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\" publication=\"men\">United enjoyed a lot of possession in the second half as they did everything they could to find a way back into the game, but ultimately they found themselves up against a solid City backline who gave nothing away.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\" publication=\"men\">Jade Rose and Simi Awujo clashed heads late on in the game and a lengthy stoppage took place as the pair received treatment. The former was cleared to return to the action while Awujo took her place on the United bench.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\" publication=\"men\">The win saw City stretch their lead at the top of the table to four points, with United remaining in third place, three points adrift of <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk\/all-about\/chelsea-fc\" target=\"\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">Chelsea<\/a> in second.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Manchester City beat Man United 3-0 in the WSL at the Etihad Stadium on Saturday. 15:33, 15 Nov&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":572471,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8813],"tags":[748,393,181629,4884,2465,181630,43127,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-572470","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-manchester","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-fa-wsl","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-manchester","13":"tag-manchester-city-women-fc","14":"tag-manchester-united-women","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115554961869945206","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=572470"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572470\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/572471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=572470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=572470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=572470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}