City win Manchester derby

Updated 17.02 Sun Aug 19 2007

Keywords: sven-goran eriksson, kasper schmeichel, sir alex ferguson, manchester city, manchester united, premier league, peter schmeichel, football, sport, nani, geovanni

The son of a Manchester United legend helped Manchester City beat the Premier League champions 1-0 at Eastlands.

Kasper Schmeichel, the 20-year-old son of 1999 European Cup hero Peter, thwarted all of United's attempts to win the derby match.

"It was a massive team effort with luck once or twice but you need that" - Kasper Schmeichel

Brazilian midfielder Geovanni scored the only goal in the first half, with a long-range effort that took a deflection off Nemanja Vidic as it flew past Edwin van der Sar.

Schmeichel made crucial saves to deny Nani and keep the home side in front to earn their second derby win in six attempts.

Schmeichel said: "I'm just taking every game as it comes. I'm lucky the gaffer has given me a chance and hopefully I can keep working as hard as I can.

"It was a massive team effort with luck once or twice but you need that."

Carlos Tevez came close to scoring an equaliser in injury-time.

Sir Alex Ferguson celebrated on the bench, believing his Argentina striker had headed home from close range, but the effort went narrowly wide.

Ferguson said: "We had enough chances and played fantastic football at times.

"We were just wasteful, we had so many opportunities to win it ourselves.

"I can't fault the performance - we completely dominated. But we should have sewn the game up.

"Of course you miss strikers but the number of chances we had and the amount of possession we should have won the game."

United have failed to win any of their first three Premier League fixtures, picking up two draws and a defeat.

City have won all three of their matches so far without conceding a goal.