If a certain well-known lager brand did Saturdays .... it's the Betfred Derby from Epsom at lunchtime, and then at 3pm the small matter of the FA Cup Final, from Wembley Stadium.
A first-ever all-Manchester final, with City in pursuit of the very same potential Treble that Utd achieved back in 1999. The Reds won the last meeting between the two in January, at Old Trafford, but it's fair to say that VAR played a highly-controversial part.
None of that will matter on Saturday afternoon, as the newly-crowned Premier League champions look for a seventh FA Cup success. Utd would be lifting the famous trophy for the thirteenth time, and only Arsenal (14) stand ahead of them in the history books.
Right - let's see if we can figure out what's going to occur, and where we might have a bit of joy, potentially. How exciting ...
Manchester City vs Manchester United Betting Tips
- Manchester City to win and both teams to score @ 15/8
- Correct Score - Man City to win 3-1 @ 10/1
- Total goals over 3.5 @ 6/4
Date: Saturday 3rd June
Time: 15:00
Location: Wembley Stadium, London
Team news
City are hoping to have a full squad to select from for the first of two massive finals in the next week-plus. Having said that the likes of Akanji, De Bruyne, Dias and Grealish have all been battling niggles. Inter of course await the Blues on Saturday week in that CL Final.
Utd are resigned to be missing Martial, but Antony could make it.
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City to win and BTTS
OK - the way I see it is that City will have the lion's share of possession, but must make it count. In the controversial Old Trafford encounter in January, when City opened the scoring through Grealish, they were playing really well. Dominating. Despite that, and going ahead, they didn't capitalise and extent that lead.
Utd are exceptionally capable of picking City off on the break, in transition. They're built for it, one might say. City's penchant for back-pedalling doesn't help when faced with a break - invariably at high speed - and one feels they're just conceding territory, and hoping Ederson can come to their rescue.
Think of Jadon Sancho's goal for the Reds at the Etihad last March. That's a typical blueprint, and one they'll be looking to replicate at Wembley.
On that day at OT, Utd got a helping hand from the officials for their equaliser, but were then suitably emboldened to chase a winner, which they duly got. Credit where it's due. Quality abounds in their ranks. Danger is everywhere. Could history repeat? Absolutely.
However - the Manchester City likely to show up in the capital on Saturday is a more confident and presently efficient outfit than the one visiting the other side of Manchester five months ago. The huge run put together to overhaul Arsenal, and repel both Bayern and Real in the Champions League, has seen them hit levels they've not reached arguably since the Centurions' season of 2017/18.
City need to convert territory, which they're likely to have, into goals. And at the right times, as with against both Arsenal and Real at the Etihad in recent weeks. Momentum-building inevitability.
Utd will then need to respond, with Fernandes, Rashford, and Sancho no doubt to the fore. Swift breaks. Scoring opportunities. Therein arguably lies their best chance. Should City fail to get their noses in front, Utd will grow in confidence.
If, as I believe they will, City get one, two, perhaps eventually three, then Utd will have a mountain to climb. I'm going for goals - I really do think there will be an openness and excitement to proceedings - and I'm taking City to reach Arsenal/Real-type heights to take the match.
Utd will be very dangerous opponents, and if City do fail to capitalise on their anticipated dominance of the ball then Utd are more than capable of making their own headlines by taking their second domestic cup competition of the season.
It should be a nail-biting thriller - so for all the reasons above I'm having a little flutter on the following, in addition to the City win and both teams to score.
Correct Score - City 3-1
Total Goals over 3.5
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With head office being situated in Warrington, equidistant-ish from both Manchester and Liverpool, unsurprisingly there are lots of football fans from both ends of the East Lancs Road represented.
Liverpool fans are willing the Blues to win, to thwart Utd. City and Utd fans are obviously both hopeful of coming out on top, while Everton devotees are too busy celebrating their escape act to care.
Might seem a bit daft but it's all extremely good-natured, and as a Manchester lad can I just say I hope all supporters have a grand day out and remember that it's a celebration of football, and of the city. Of the tremendous achievement in getting there in the first place.
In the spirit of Best, Law, Charlton; Bell, Lee, Summerbee; Cantona, Ronaldo and Robson; Kompany, Silva and Agüero; let's have a fabulous day out, in the finest traditions of football, and may the best team win.
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