The Blues delivered on derby day to move within five points of the Barclays Women’s Super League title.
City were in control from the get-go, with Phallon Tullis-Joyce making a fine early save from Alex Greenwood, Aoba Fujino firing just wide and Lauren Hemp hitting the bar inside the opening 15 minutes.
We’d eventual find the breakthrough soon after, though, when Vivianne Miedema glanced home Alex Greenwood’s corner in front of the Stretford End.
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The Dutch forward added another before the 20th minute with another header, this time from a Kerstin Casparij cross as City threatened to run riot.
A third was even ruled out before the break when Fujino was judged to have obstructed Tullis-Joyce while Rebecca Knaak headed home.
But we’d get on the scoresheet again soon after the restart when Casparij fired home from close-range to round off a lethal counter attack.
It was just rewards for City, who have now completed a double over Manchester United in the WSL this season following November’s 3-0 win at the Etihad Stadium.
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