Manchester City are today top of the Premiership with a 100% record after three matches, while Manchester United are in the bottom five. That is the strange state of affairs after Sven Goran Eriksson's side withstood a barrage of pressure to edge a 1-0 victory at a jubilent City of Manchester stadium.

Eriksson's new look side had defeated West Ham and Derby in their opening two matches of the season, but they started this afternoon looking like a team of strangers as United dominated in terms of possession at least.

However, Sir Alex Ferguson's, who had started the season with two draws, lacked the cutting edge with their own new-look side including Nani, Owen Hargreaves and Carlos Tevez in the absence of the injured Wayne Rooney and suspended Cristiano Ronaldo.

They were made to pay for their failure to be decisive in attack as out of the blue Geovanni, who famously scored against United when at Benfica, struck on 35 minutes from just outside the box. His effort took a slight deflection of Nemanja Vidic, who had turned his back to the ball, and it curved the shot around Edwin van der Sar.

United then continued to dominate, but ironically were frustrated by Peter Schmeichel's son Kasper in City's goal, although the youngster was not as tested as much as the visitors would have hoped given their domination, but they could not manage to put the ball in the back of the net despite all of their pretty football.

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Just when we thought it couldn't get any worse!