Substitute Sergio Aguero broke Manchester United hearts all overagain as Manchester City won 2-1 at Old Trafford.The Argentine, whose goal won City the title in May, came offthe bench to score the winner after a Vincent Kompany own goal hadcancelled out James Milner’s strike in an eventful second half.The result closes the gap between the two sides to 12 pointswith seven games to play and, while it is unlikely to prevent theRed Devils regaining the Premier League crown, the game was stillplayed out in an intense atmosphere.The first half, although surprisingly open, was more notable fora series of robust challenges rather than goalmouth incidents asWayne Rooney and Kompany were both booked for poor fouls.Rafael did clip the crossbar after latching onto a Robin vanPersie flick-on just before the interval but clear opportunitieswere few and far between despite the end-to-end nature of thecontest.But City didn’t have to wait long to find the breakthrough inthe second half and it came after good work from Gareth Barry, whorobbed Ryan Giggs on the left before finding Samir Nasri in thearea.Rafael did well to tackle Nasri in the box but the Frenchman wasstill able to tee up Milner and the midfielder struck a fierceleft-footed shot… Read full this story
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