Time to wrap things up – here’s Danny Taylor’s match report. City will go for a record 15th straight league win at Swansea on Wednesday; United will aim to take their frustration out on Bournemouth. Thanks for joining me. It’s been festive. Bye!

Here’s José: “(Herrera) was a clear penalty. The referee made a mistake. Otherwise, Michael Oliver had a good performance. City scored two bad goals. It’s unbelievable to concede two goals like that.

“What they are good at, they weren’t good at, and scored two easy goals. We did good things, bad things ... every player did their best. Is the title over? I don’t know. They are a good team, I think they’re lucky, and they get decisions in their favour.”

Some spectacularly sour grapes there. Whether Herrera should have been booked for diving is another matter, but it would have been a soft penalty at best.

Graeme Souness and Gary Neville are crossing swords over Lukaku. Neville reckons his confidence is shot and he’s not been influential enough, Souness says he needs better support from midfield. I think it’s a bit of both.

Fabian Delph is asked if City have won hand on the trophy. He says more like two hands Geoff, we’ll walk it that City will take it game by game. Kevin de Bruyne is a little more strident: “I’d rather be 11 points ahead than 11 points behind.”

We’ll have a report online very soon, but stick around for post-game reaction.

That was a funny game – City were not as dominant as against Chelsea, nor as clinical as they were in Naples, but were the superior side and showed plenty of grit and discipline to get over the line.

United’s game plan was never really apparent – whether Mourinho got stuck between sticking and twisting, or the players didn’t do as he asked, we may never know.

City go 11 points clear at the top after a 14th league win in a row. It wasn’t always pretty, but ultimately it was deserved – although Romelu Lukaku won’t sleep well tonight.

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94 mins: Another City break, and Sterling picks out De Bruyne, whose shot is turned behind. No matter – City are going to win this.

92 mins: Matic is penalised for a foul on De Bruyne and City break, Sterling setting Bernardo Silva free. He goes down in the box, but Michael Oliver isn’t giving that. Moments later, a brilliant De Bruyne ball gives him another chance – but he delays, and De Gea saves.

91 mins: City have kept the ball in the corner for the last three minutes, but De Bruyne hoofs it out of play, and United will have a chance to pump it forward...

90 mins: Four added minutes. Mourinho isn’t happy. Obviously.

89 mins: City are keeping the ball as time ticks down. Young is booked for a frustrated hack on Sterling down by the corner flag.

87 mins: Guardiola looks to shore it up, as hulking no-nonsense midfield general Bernardo Silva replaces the tireless Sané.

86 mins: Four minutes plus stoppage time for United to stop City going 11 points clear. Sané digs in under pressure from two United defenders, and wins a corner.

84 mins: Ederson makes a preposterous double save, taking a point-blank Lukaku shot from six yards square in the face, and getting straight back up to deny Mata! He might have just won the derby. Or Lukaku has just lost it, depending on your point of view.

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83 mins: Walker gives the ball away – City have been uncharacteristically sloppy – but the back four steps up and Mata is flagged offside. It was tight.

82 mins: Juan Mata is on in place of Ander Herrera.

80 mins: These teams have scored 20 goals between them in the last 10 minutes of league games, so don’t go anywhere.

79 mins: Mangala does marvellously to close down Lukaku, but City give the ball away and Herrera tumbles theatrically over Otamendi’s leg. He’s booked for diving. Mourinho won’t like that.

77 mins: Lindelof looks for his countryman with a long ball from the back, but Ibrahimovic is offside.

76 mins: Mangala heads away, the thud echoing around the ground, before City race out to leave Rashford offside.

75 mins: Another wobbly moment from Delph, stepping in front of Rashford and missing the ball entirely. Rashford’s stinging shot from a tight angle is turned behind by Ederson. Zlatan Ibrahimovic is coming on, replacing Lingard.

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Christmas is cancelled.

73 mins: Silva is booked for a hefty challenge on Herrera, and also has a little nibble at Matic before De Bruyne goes down off the ball. It’s warming up nicely.

71 mins: City overdo it from the corner and United break, with Martial finding Lingard outside the area – but he goes down under pressure from Gundogan. Lingard was looking for that, with the counter attack running out of steam.

70 mins: David de Gea is at it again, getting down to turn away a fierce De Bruyne shot that was heading for the bottom corner. The vast majority of goalkeepers wouldn’t have got near that.

69 mins: You still feel there’s an individual mistake in this City side, and after Delph misjudges a pass, Sterling bundles Martial over – unnecessarily, with Fernandinho covering. Rashford is over the free kick – but fires it a foot over.

67 mins: Silva, who has taken this game by the scruff of the neck, sets up Sané, whose deflected cross almost falls to Sterling.

65 mins: Otamendi gives the ball away cheaply in midfield and Lingard plays a nice diagonal ball to Lukaku. Mangala does well to keep him off his left foot, and he fires his shot high and wide.

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64 mins: United are carved open with David Silva, this match’s standout player, motoring down the left and slipping a pass to Gundogan. He cuts it back across an open goal, but nobody’s there to turn it in.

63 mins: Rashford gets bullied off the ball by Mangala, and throws the ball in frustration. He’s booked.

61 mins: United get it away this time. “Can anyone think of a footballer who is worse with the ball at his feet than Lukaku?” asks David Flynn. Joe Hart?

60 mins: Sané fires in a low cross that Smalling cuts out, but City keep the ball and Sané skips away from Valencia to win a free kick...

59 mins: David Silva is now the furthest City player forward. Pep parking the bus really would hurt Mourinho.

58 mins: Guardiola has taken 13 minutes to realise Fernandinho isn’t really a centre-back, and brings Eliaquim Mangala on in place of Gabriel Jesus.

Let’s follow up Lukaku’s moment of slapstick genius with your festive puns. “Fairytale of Jack Cork” offers David Wall. “Demba Bah, Humbug” scowls Matt Dony.

“Delph’s slip may have been an early Christmas gift, although I’d have expected it to have gone to Jesus. Nevertheless Pep sees his side go a goal down without a myrrhmer. He must be, to be frank, incensed.” Felix Wood is here ‘til New Year.

Silva’s free kick dropped to Lukaku without a City player near him – but he panicked, slicing a clearance off Smalling’s back and into the path of Otamendi, who volleys it home!

It’s another scrappy goal from a set piece! Classic Guardiola.

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53 mins: Jesus holds off Herrera and earns a free kick that looked a little soft. Silva will have the chance to ping it in from an inviting angle...

52 mins: As United push forward, City find more space when they attack – but Sané is the latest player to make a poor decision, firing wildly over from 20 yards out.

51 mins: Rashford exchanges passes with Martial and fires a quick, low cross towards Lingard – he can’t quite get a touch, and Otamendi clears.

49 mins: Jesus picks up Sterling’s pass by the corner flag and skips beyond Rashford. The ball is worked to De Bruyne, who has been below his best, and he presents it to Ashley Young. The final pass still lacking from City.

48 mins: Lukaku leads a break, bursting past Fernandinho before Walker gets across to cover.

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