page_title: Manchester United F.C. 4–3 Manchester City F.C. (2009)
section_title: Summary
hierarchical_section_title: Manchester United F.C. 4–3 Manchester City F.C. (2009) / Match / Summary
caption_attribution_description: Darren Fletcher vs Everton, at Old Trafford, Manchester, November 2009.
context_page_description: The first fixture between Manchester United and Manchester City in the 2009–10 Premier League season was played on 20 September 2009 at Old Trafford. It was the 153rd Manchester derby between the two clubs. Manchester United won the match 4–3 courtesy of a late winner from Michael Owen deep into second-half injury time. Wayne Rooney opened the scoring early on, but a mistake from Ben Foster in the United goal allowed Gareth Barry to equalise for City. Two goals each from Darren Fletcher and Craig Bellamy meant that the score was 3–3 going into four minutes of injury time, before Owen secured the win for the home side in the 96th minute. The match saw the return of striker Carlos Tevez to Old Trafford after leaving United that summer.
  After the match, United manager Sir Alex Ferguson described it as "probably […] the best derby of all time". In May 2012, the match was voted as the best of the first two decades of the Premier League in the Premier League 20 Seasons Awards.
context_section_description: United took the lead inside two minutes; a quick throw-in by Ryan Giggs gave Evra the space to run past Shaun Wright-Phillips and play the ball to Wayne 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 Carlos Tevez managed to steal the ball away and set up Gareth Barry for the equaliser. Tevez nearly gave City the lead before half-time but hit the outside of the post following good team play involving Touré and Stephen Ireland. At half-time, as the players were leaving the pitch, Tevez responded to a hostile reception from the Stretford End by applauding "sarcastically". Moments later, a coin aimed for Tevez struck his teammate Javier Garrido on the head.
  Manchester United regained the lead four minutes into the second half, when Darren Fletcher outjumped Barry to head home a looping cross from Giggs. Park Ji-sung and Giggs himself both had opportunities to give United a 3–1 lead, but neither was able to score. Instead, a City equaliser came quickly in the 52nd minute from Craig Bellamy, who cut inside United defender John O'Shea and struck into the top corner from just outside the penalty area. United had further chances to score but Given kept out efforts by Dimitar Berbatov and Giggs again. United finally went ahead for a third time with 10 minutes remaining; Fletcher scored his second goal from a Giggs assist, this time from a free-kick after a foul on Evra. In the last minute of normal time, Martin Petrov intercepted a sloppy pass from Rio Ferdinand near the half-way line, who laid the ball off to Bellamy who quickly raced down the left-hand side and squeezed the ball past an oncoming Foster for his second of the match. After originally instructing the fourth official to signal for four minutes of injury time to be played, referee Martin Atkinson allowed the match to continue beyond that initial four minutes due to the lateness of the Bellamy goal; in the sixth minute of injury time, Giggs created his third goal of the match after controlling the ball out of the sky following a clearance, and played the ball to substitute Michael Owen, who found space and lifted the ball over the oncoming Given to make it 4–3.
caption: Darren Fletcher scored two of United's goals.
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