It is the commentator’s lot to embarrass himself. My son and I see this all the time in Rocket League. We do it ourselves. Here it’s Scott Murray of the Guardian.
33 min: Foden is the total boss of Wan-Bissaka down the left. He whips a low cross into the six-yard box. Lindelof nearly pinball-flippers another own goal into the bottom left. De Gea saves his blushes.
34 min: De Bruyne slaps a shot towards the bottom left. De Gea saves again. From the resulting corner, Cancelo drives goalwards. Silva tries to poke the ball past De Gea, but the keeper is in Octopus Mode this afternoon and isn’t about to be beaten here. What a one-man show this is by De Gea!
37 min: Gundogan shimmies into a little pocket down the left and looks for Jesus in the middle with a dinked cross. Maguire clears. This is a full-on rearguard action. It’s not totally clear how United have restricted the damage to a single goal, De Gea’s antics notwithstanding, but here we are.
GOAL! Manchester United 0-2 Manchester City (Silva 45)
Strange goal, this. Cancelo, in space on the left, curls towards the far post. The United defence hesitates en masse. Shaw lets the ball bounce on the right-hand corner of the six-yard box. At full stretch, he pokes towards the bottom right. The ball slaps De Gea’s chest, and the keeper bundles clumsily into the goal. Silence, before everyone realises the ball has gently rolled into the back of the net.
