Manuel Pellegrini Shows His Frustration After Derby Defeat

Manuel Pellegrini said Manchester City played well in the 1-0 defeat to Manchester United before walking out of the interview with Sky Sports. He said this before walking out “I'm only talking about the game, nothing more”.

Marcus Rashford scored the only goal of the derby clash at the Etihad in the 16th minute as City's poor run of form continued. The defeat is also their fifth at home this season, but Pellegrini refused to answer questions on why they have been unable to replicate their form at the Etihad from last year, when they lost just two matches.

Pellegrini said his side put in a good performance in the second half despite the result saying “We were the team what wanted to win for the whole game.The team that played for 95 minutes, but we missed our chances and made a mistake for their goal. We tried but we couldn't do it. In the first half before they scored we had control of the game, we had three or four clear chances to score, we couldn't do it, maybe in the minutes after the goal we didn't do so well but the second half was a good performance, good attitude, but we couldn't score”