Man City humble Man United - Liverpool back on top in EPL

MANCHESTER, England:

Manchester City are back to winning ways. Manchester United are back to square one.

City utterly dominated the 197th Manchester derby yesterday, winning 3-0 on another humbling day for United coach Ruben Amorim.

It could have been so much worse for the red half of Manchester as City threatened to turn it into a rout at the Etihad Stadium.

Haaland scored twice in the second half and also hit the post to make it seven goals in a week following the five he hit for Norway against Moldova on Tuesday.

Phil Foden opened the scoring for City with a header in the 18th minute and Pep Guardiola's team never looked back.

The win ended City's two-game losing run in what has been an unconvincing start to the season. The problems are quickly mounting for Amorim, however, in a campaign that has already seen his team suffer a humiliating exit from the English League Cup against fourth-tier Grimsby.

Afterwards Amorim had a message for United fans.

"I will do everything, always thinking about what is best for the club," he said. "I really want to win games, so I'm suffering more than them."

In the day's other Premier League game, Mohamed Salah scored a stoppage-time penalty as Liverpool beat Burnley 1-0 to move back to the top of the standings.

Amorim has only won eight of 31 English Premier League games since he was hired last November and under his watch United endured their lowest finish in the modern era last season when placing 15th.

"It's not a record that you should have at Manchester United," he admitted, but Amorim remains adamant his approach is right. "When I want to change my philosophy, I will change. If not, you have to change the man," he said. "I believe my way and I'm going to play my way until I want to change."

The coach added: "I see that we are doing better, but then the results doesn't show that."

Despite Amorim's comments, four points from four games is United's worst start to a season since 1992.

Liverpool left it late again and moved back to the top of the Premier League.

The defending champions preserved their 100 per cent start to the season thanks to Salah's penalty.

- AP