Credit to the fans of Manchester United who organized a sit-in after these most docile derby's because it must have been difficult enough in the first place.
They show more passion than these two teams that were managed in 90 spirit -killing minutes of football, they protested against the way the club is run.
But you couldn't pin this on the glazers or Sir Jim Ratcliffe. This was on the men in red and blue who Shadow make their way through the 196th Manchester Derby and then embraced warm in the evening sun at the end.
“They are now going for a roast dinner,” Snoof Gary Neville on Sky Sports.
'The love I watch tells you that both teams feel happy with a 0-0. I think the best Manchester City teams and the best Manchester United teams would be very disappointed at the end of that match with the way they approached it.
“It's not good enough. I feel disappointed. It is a Manchester derby and it should have more blood, thunder, risk and courage to win the game than that. '
Asked about Neville's comments afterwards, United head coach Ruben Amorim broke in a smile before the question even ended.
“I understand that Gary Neville is crucial about everything!” He shot back. 'We are the worst season in history when we do the worst season. Manchester City is struggling. We are not in the times to give the best spectacle.
'We are not fighting for the best things. I understand the critical feelings of the players who played in a different way in this game. '
Nothing summarized the Foney War better than a fight in the 55th minute when Manuel Ugarte Bernardo Silva polluted and was then activated by Ruben Dias.
Ugarte bumped into Dias and they exchanged words before Silva confronted the Uruguayan with a two -handed cloth that was so weak that it was almost apologetic.
In the stands in Old Trafford, legends such as Eric Cantona, Mike Summerbee and Peter Schmeichel have to wonder what they were watching. There is nothing like a good manchester derby, and this was nothing like a good manchester derby.
Each needle was limited to the two sets of fans, when United brought their rivals with hymns of 'Cheating B *******' about the 115 Premier League adjustments with which the club was confronted and Pil Foden took out personal abuse about his mother. Goodness knows that there was little about football to make them enthusiastic.
And it all started so well. Alejandro Garnacho galloping Clear and Dias contaminated it on the edge of the box within the first 40 seconds, causing Old Trafford to reach his feet. By the time referee John Brooks brought to the derby, it was only the sit-in protesters who could not wait to get out of place.
The city was poor and united just not good enough to take advantage of a game of few consequences. These kinds of opportunities to beat a Pep Guardiola side do not often come by.
One of the few positives was that it presented a soft warming up for Thursday's quarterfinals in Lyon.
Luke Shaw returned on the couch for the first time since Amorim's third game was in charge of the lead at the beginning of December, although he couldn't get along, and Harry Maguire started for the first time in an absence of four games due to injury instead of Matthijs de Ligt.
Maguire came off in the 58th minute, but Amorim granted the fear that the defender might have suffered a setback. “It was game management,” he said. “We have an important game on Thursday and we could not risk him for more than 60 minutes.”
If United plays with the same lack of intensity in France, they can kiss farewell to their last chance of a trophy and another season of Champions League football.
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