Bernardo Silva hinted the Premier League title race is slipping out of Manchester City’s hands following Saturday’s 2-0 defeat at Old Trafford.
Pep Guardiola’s side had the chance to halve the deficit at the highest of the table with the present league leaders not in motion until in a while Saturday evening against Nottingham Forest.
United, nevertheless, delivered their most complete performance of the campaign in what was interim manager Michael Carrick’s first game on the helm.
The house team were unlucky to not be leading on the interval having had two goals ruled out by VAR for marginal offside offences, while Harry Maguire also hit the crossbar from point blank range.
It took until nearly midway through the second half for Carrick’s new-look side to interrupt the deadlock and eventually discover a well past Gianluigi Donnarumma when Bryan Mbeumo provided the right finish to an exciting counter-attack.
Patrick Dorgu made the points secure with 14 minutes remaining when he benefited from more lax City defending and it might have been worse had Mason Mount’s stoppage time effort been allowed to face.
City’s players and Pep Guardiola appeared crestfallen at the ultimate whistle and Silva confessed the gap to Arsenal is threatening to turn into insurmountable.
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‘It’s an enormous gap, we won’t lie and say it isn’t an enormous gap it’s. We are going to fight until the tip,’ he said.
It’s now 4 games with out a league win for City and Silva added: ‘They’d more energy and intention. It at all times felt like they were close to attain and we were never there.
‘We gave them what they need. They took the sport to where they’re good and we should not so good.
‘Since I arrived here in England we’ve got at all times been a really controlled team. There was a whole lot of things missing from us. Definitely a nasty day for us.’
Guardiola, too, was asked if Mikel Arteta’s side are at risk of running off into the gap and said: ‘It’s about how we grow up as a team.
‘I actually have the sensation we’ve got done excellent things up to now. To be higher you’ll have to take a step back.
‘The season is a great distance and you could have to proceed to analyse.’
On one other disappointing performance, he added: ‘The higher team won. They were higher. When a team is healthier you could have to just accept it. They’d the energy we didn’t have, so congratulations.
‘They’d the possibilities at the tip and naturally the goals we conceded were poorly.
‘We didn’t control but normally we will speak about this motion or that motion. We have now the duty to analyse the sport normally and so they were higher.’
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