The Eagles are a side in a dire situation; five games played, five losses and zero goals scored.

Top-flight European football returns to the Etihad Stadium next Tuesday as Ukrainian champions Shakhtar Donetsk travel to England to face Manchester City.

The pre-international break fortunes of both Manchester sides swapped on Saturday – a heavy scoreline which could be deceiving fell in City’s favour, while United surprised in looking like mere mortals.

Saturday’s early kick-off sees Manchester City take on Liverpool at The Etihad as Pep Guardiola’s side look for their first home victory of the season.

Here are the 10 weirdest, wackiest and down-right astonishing facts about Manchester United and City.

Net World Sports ranked towns and cities to see where the highest number of its FORZA football goals were sold, and it doesn’t look pretty for Manchester.

This weekend the Premier League will be back and most are looking to place outright bets. We have asked the experts which way to go

Former SSE Next Generation athlete Georgia Stanway and current Manchester City forward

It is 51 years since an England captain last lifted a major trophy, but there is genuine belief that Steph Houghton will emulate Bobby Moore in just three weeks and become a national icon.

Lucy Bronze delivered a hammer blow to the rest of Euro 2017, stating England are only going to get better ahead of their clash with Spain on Sunday.

The stadium had hosted this year’s super bowl game and the pre match warm ups nearer resembled an American Football game rather than a Manchester Derby, with the lights of and teams walking out in spotlights to the roar of 72,000 fans as pyrotechnics and fireworks illuminated the night sky.