game", and joked that if United fans booed his friend Tevez, he would join in. Evra acknowledged that City were now an ambitious club, saying that United were determined to stop them becoming "kings" of Manchester. Evra's teammates Nemanja Vidić and Rio Ferdinand both agreed that City had become a more fierce rival. City midfielder Nigel de Jong said that Manchester was "buzzing" ahead of the match as there were now two big clubs in the city, while defender Kolo Touré and midfielder Stephen Ireland were both motivated by the prospect of victory to put City ahead of United in the table. City defender Sylvinho said the team's victory against Arsenal had given them extra confidence. Match Team selection Manchester United had several players out of contention for the match. Paul Scholes was serving a one-match suspension, and Rio Ferdinand was considered a doubt with a calf injury, although he did eventually recover to start the match. Gabriel Obertan (calf), Rafael (shoulder), Edwin van der Sar (finger) and Owen Hargreaves (knee) were all ruled out through injury. Leading goalscorer Wayne Rooney, who had scored five times in United's opening five league matches, started in a two-man strike partnership with Dimitar Berbatov. Park Ji-sung replaced the suspended Scholes as the only change to United's starting line-up from their previous Premier League fixture against Tottenham, when he had been sent-off for two yellow cards. Manchester City were without top scorer Emmanuel Adebayor, who had been charged with violent conduct in their last match against Arsenal and was serving a three-match ban that City had given up contesting. He was replaced by Tevez, who had been an injury doubt but was fit enough to start on his return to his former club, in the only change for City. Robinho (ankle), Michael Johnson (groin), Vincent Kompany (foot) and Roque Santa Cruz (knee) were City's injury absences. Summary The match kicked off at around 13:30BST in front of a crowd of 75,066 at United's Old Trafford stadium. United took the lead inside two minutes; a quick throw-in by Giggs gave Evra the space to run past Shaun Wright-Phillips and play the ball to Rooney, who sidestepped Touré and De Jong before sliding the ball past Shay Given. After a quarter of an hour, a long ball by City defender Joleon Lescott looked to be heading straight to Ben Foster, but Tevez managed to get there