Manchester City and Manchester United face off in the first all-Manchester FA Cup final this afternoon; victory for Pep Guardiola's side will move them one game away from matching United's previously unrivalled treble.
For Liverpool, it is the six Champions Leagues and Istanbul. For Arsenal, it is the Invincibles. For Manchester United, it is the treble and that night in Barcelona.Now, United's greatest-ever achievement is in danger of being replicated by their noisy neighbours, Manchester City.Those miraculous 10 days in May 1999 which saw Sir Alex Ferguson's side win the Premier League, Champions League and FA Cup in the most dramatic fashion could soon be about to lose some mystique.
But Erik ten Hag's side have a chance to protect that legacy by stopping City in Saturday's FA Cup final, the first time the show-piece event has ever been contested by the two Manchester clubs. Ten Hag, though, wants his players to remain focused on the possibility of claiming their second trophy of the season, rather than preventing City matching the unique feat."We want to win a cup," said Ten Hag, whose first piece of silverware at United was the League Cup in February."It is not about stopping them. It is about that we win a cup. We have a great opportunity.
Guardiola, who briefly worked with Ten Hag at Bayern Munich, has been impressed by the United manager."Just look at the team when he arrived and now. So when you see the team get better and better and better - and it is not easy in the first season in the Premier League - I identify a really good manager.
"He is a guy who represents our profession in the best way on the pitch and off the pitch. I cannot say we are friends, because we are not in touch much, we had a short experience in Munich.
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