Pep Guardiola watched his Manchester City players rack up a 2-0 lead in the first half of the Manchester derby - and then demanded more passes to shut the game up.
A ruthlessly dominant performance - helped by a woefully inept opponent - allowed the Blues to go in at the break with a comfortable lead after Bernardo Silva added to an early Eric Bailly own goal.
But the City manager had seen enough danger from the rare occasions when United had the ball to urge his team to starve them of possession.
The second half played out exactly as Guardiola wanted, with United failing to lay a glove on their noisy neighbours. The game ended with the hosts having had more shots on target against David de Gea than Ederson, while City's total of 753
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