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Joe Hart shares his five Manchester derby moments on Soccer AM

Derby Days - Joe Hart

Manchester City and England goalkeeper Joe Hart talks through the best and worst of his derby moments on Soccer AM.

With the Manchester giants set to collide on Super Sunday, the City shot-stopper goes through some memorable moments from down the years.

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The First - Man Utd 1-2 Man City [Old Trafford] 10 February, 2008

Manchester City's Darius Vassell celebrates scoring against Manchester United
Image: Darius Vassell was on target at Old Trafford

It was my first time at Old Trafford to play. It was the 50th year anniversary to the Munich disaster so we wore really old school kits. We literally had the Man Utd badge and the Man City badge. It was a great occasion, Benjani (Mwaruwari) scored and Darius Vassell. It was a dream come true.

The Last - Man Utd 0-0 Man City [Old Trafford] 25 October, 2015

Manchester City's English midfielder Raheem Sterling is challenged by Manchester United's  Chris Smalling
Image: The last Manchester derby ended in a bore draw

The last derby was a bore draw - it wasn't a great game. Man Utd didn't get many chances. I think Chrissy (Smalling) had a late chance off a (Marouane) Felliani knockdown and just managed to head it wide. It was an important point and hopefully it will prove a more important one at the end of the season.

That Goal - Man Utd 2-1 Man City [Old Trafford] 12 February, 2011

Wayne Rooney of Manchester United scores a goal from an overhead kick
Image: Wayne Rooney with that maginificent bicycle kick

Obviously the ball deflected off a Nani cross and Wazza (Rooney) swears blind to me that it came off his shin, but his celebration - the fact that it was the winner - it hurt me, it was against me and it cost us the derby. But like I said it was a special moment for a special player.

The Best - Man City 1-0 Man Utd [Etihad Stadium] 30 April, 2012

Vincent Kompany of Manchester City celebrates scoring to make it 1-0 against Manchester United
Image: Vincent Kompany headed home the winner in 2012

The best has to be the 6-1 victory - or was it? I don't know. That was a special because of the score, but when we played Man Utd with a couple of games to go, I think it was on a Monday night and a huge deal was made of it all across the world. It was practically a title decider. Vinny (Kompany) scored a fantastic header and went on to win the game 1-0 and went on to win out first ever title.

The Worst - Man Utd 4-2 Man City [Old Trafford] 12 April, 2015

Marouane Fellaini of Manchester United (centre) celebrates as he scores
Image: Marouane Fellaini scored in the 4-2 win last season

We lost the game 4-2 which was an all-round bad game. It was a real low point in a pretty exciting career so far at Manchester City, especially in the last couple of years. It was a really bad game and we really didn't do ourselves justice.

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MANCHESTER, ENGLAND - OCTOBER 31: Joe Hart of Manchester City celebrates his side's second goal during the Barclays Premier League match between Manchester
Image: Hart will be out for another famous derby day win on Sunday

We've been disappointing the last two games, two 0-0 draws which is not where we want to be. We've been struggling a bit for form. We've got so much that we're fighting for and that much riding on the game that we can't really change how you approach the game because we go to win every single game - it's all about three points.

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