Indeed, currently Manchester City is above Manchester United in terms of player quality and strategy on the field,however, as I said above, of course Manchester United has very big motivation to be able to maintain their good name as rulers of the city of Manchester, so you can be sure that the match will be very tough and no matter how bad Manchester United's performance is before the derby starts, I am quite sure that the derby match it will only end with a narrow score.
Just like I mentioned on my previous post, we know that it has been on the record that Manchester United was ones a better club than Manchester City during some years back when Manchester United and Chelsea was the England favorite clubs but right now power has change hands were as Manchester United and Chelsea is no longer the best two teams on the premier League because so many other teams has greatly improve and there performance has grown so much that Manchester United cannot longer compete with them because there performance is nothing to write home about. So perhaps right now Manchester City is one of the club that has grown more than Manchester United in every dimension because currently they have the most strongest team on the premier League while Manchester United is still struggling to improve on the league table, so perhaps there upcoming match against Manchester City will be a bit strong but I have a strong believe that Manchester City will surely have there three points because they always win Manchester United whenever they meet each other so I don't think there would be any difference on this match.