Guardiola on Manchester derby victory:’it was really good. Everyone watched it’

Hat-tricks from Erling Haaland and Phil Foden steered Manchester City past Manchester United in a 6-3 derby win that broke a number of records.

Manchester is blue! 💙

Highlights of our derby day victory 👇 pic.twitter.com/35EvD9Wzyi

— Manchester City (@ManCity) October 2, 2022

Pep Guardiola’s Manchester City registered their biggest-ever derby first-half lead as Foden struck after only eight minutes before Haaland scored twice in four minutes and then set up Foden again before half-time.
United’s substitutes hit back after the break through a wonderful Antony goal and a brace by Anthony Martial.
But, in between, both Haaland and Foden completed their trebles to leave the destination of the points never in doubt.
The win takes City to 20 points, one behind leaders Arsenal, while United are sixth with 12 points.
As well as it being the highest-scoring Manchester derby in Premier League history, Haaland became the first player in the competition to score hat-tricks in three home matches in a row.

With Phil Foden scoring City’s other three goals, hitting his first senior treble, Pep Guardiola’s side became just the third team in Premier League history to have two players score hat-tricks in a single match.
Only Robert Pires and Jermaine Pennant, in Arsenal’s 6-1 home win over Southampton in 2002/03, and Ayoze Perez and Jamie Vardy, for Leicester City in a 9-0 win at Southampton in 2019/20, had previously achieved that feat.After the match Manchester City coach Pep Guardiola said, “Yeah, it was really good. Everyone watched it.
“There are a few things we have to improve – in the process we are losing some easy balls and we have to improve that.
“The simple things we are not doing well. But six goals against United, who had come from four games winning, including Arsenal and Liverpool, is really good.”