Man Utd 0 - 3 Man City

At Old Trafford

The future of Manchester United manager David Moyes is once again under the microscope after his side were humbled in a 3-0 defeat at the hands of neighbours Manchester City.

Edin Dzeko opened the scoring for the Citizens after just 43 seconds, the fastest ever goal by an opposition player at Old Trafford in the Premier League.

The Bosnian striker doubled his sides lead 11 minutes after the break with Yaya Toure scoring a third in stoppage time to make it three derby wins in a row for the first time since 1970.

In the dying embers of the game Moyes found himself being subjected to a tirade of abuse from supporters sat near to the dug-out. One fan had to be escorted away by stewards, with the fan intimating that the Scot should resign.

Stewards were also deployed to prevent supporters removing the 'Chosen One' banner that hangs in the Stretford End. Twitter had been rife in the days leading up to the game after a number of fans had demanded the banner, unveiled after Moyes replaced Sir Alex Ferguson, be removed.

After the game the United manager shouldered the responsibility following the horror show performance that saw his side slump to their sixth home league loss of the season. He said: "I am the one who picks the team. I take responsibility and always will do. It is disappointing.

"We never started well. We never gave ourselves an opportunity to get into the game.

"I just think we never came out of the blocks. You prepare the players, you warm them up, you do all the things to have them ready, but we just never started.

“Up until the second goal we were still in with a fighting chance but we just didn’t do enough.

“We played a very good team tonight – that’s the level we have to try and aspire to get to.”

But the Scot was adamant that he was in the job for the long haul after signing a six-year contract in the summer.

"Everybody knows this is a job that is going to take a little bit of time to get the way we would like but that is the job," said Moyes.

"Other clubs have had to do rebuilding jobs - we hope it won't take as long as some others but we have a period of time to get to that level.

"I thought it would be a tough year for us, no doubt about that, but I hoped it would be much more competitive and closer to the top of the league than we are at the present time."

City went into the game having won four of the last five meetings with United, including a 4-1 win at the Etihad Stadium in September.

And it was the away side who took an early lead in the latest contest between the two sides. After some neat buildup play between David Silva, Fernandinho and Samir Nasri, the ball dropped to Dzeko who swept the ball home from close range.

It was the second fastest goal in a Manchester derby, the quickest being scored by Dennis Tueart for City after 39 seconds in November 1975.

David De Gea kept his side in the game during the first-half, producing a wonderful low save to foil Dzeko.

The home side were then lucky not to be reduced to 10 men before half-time after Marouane Fellaini elbowed Pablo Zabaleta. The Belgian somehow escaped with only a yellow card from referee Michael Oliver.

City were again quickest out of the blocks after the break with Dzeko superbly diverting a Nasri corner past De Gea for his 10th league goal of the season.

Toure wrapped things up for Manuel Pellegrini's charges, the Ivorian crashing in a low shot to move City into second place and within three points of Chelsea with two games in hand.

But despite the win, Pellegrini refused to admit his side were favourites to be crowned Premier League champions. He said: "I don't think so. We will continue fighting with the other three teams, Arsenal, Chelsea and Liverpool, and we have to win the two postponed games and continue playing the way we play.

"I am not thinking about the title. Tomorrow we are thinking about Arsenal (who they face on Saturday)."

It was also the first time City had kept five consecutive clean sheets in the top-flght since 1915 - a stat that pleased the Chilean.

“For me, it’s very important to keep a clean sheet,” said Pellegrini.

“We know we can score a lot of goals but today we were very compact. We didn’t give them one metre to make damage to our defence.

“I’m very happy with our defending – we’ve only conceded six goals in the second-half of the season and this is very pleasing.”