5 key talking points from the Premier League- (7th-8th April)

#1 Time for Manchester United to wake up in the morning feeling fine

Look what it means

It was as fanciable as a phoenix taking flight from the ashes because that's exactly what Manchester United were savagely reduced to in the first half by a rampant Manchester City. Outplayed and outclassed, the scoreline that read 2-0 at halftime only flattered Jose's men.

It was all set to be the kind of utterly humiliating and embarrassing loss, that too against their cross-city rivals, that would lead to the blame games and ultimately to the disintegration of a team. But boy did they turn that around or what?

Asked by Jose Mourinho to not become the clowns who'll have to watch City lift the title, Manchester United started the second half by committing more bodies forward and forcing the issue. Paul Pogba was driving into tackles, winning the loose ball, setting the game rolling in midfield.

Alexis Sanchez came up with a vintage performance where he played a great part in all the three goals. The kind of performance which shows why United are paying him the big bucks. To put things into perspective, it was Ander Herrera who assisted Paul Pogba for the first goal as he chested the ball into the Frenchman's path from inside the area. From inside the area! How often have you seen that from this Manchester United side?

Pogba once again galloped into the box, about 90 seconds later, as Sanchez keeps demanding of him, and finished off with a spectacular header to level things.

And the narrative carried on poetically, as Smalling, guilty party for the first goal, sidefooted home from an Alexis Sanchez set-piece and wheeled away in celebration of the most audacious of comebacks.

And a Manchester United win just doesn't sit right if David de Gea did not show why he is the best in the business, right? He criminally denied Sergio Aguero, the master of late goals, from 6 yards out as he flung himself to his left to tip the ball over the crossbar.

It is perhaps the most defining 45 minutes Manchester United have played all season. It could have so easily have been their unravelling. But they dug deep and sucker punched Pep's juggernaut and became the first team to defeat them at Etihad in almost 2 years!

It is the kind of game that instils belief in the dressing room. It is also the kind of victory that ties the players together in the spirit of shared adventure. And there was a solid response from their most maligned players who showed the world what a force of nature they become when they decide to play to each other's strengths.

But in the grand scheme of things, what matters the most is that Jose Mourinho has not lost the dressing room as he had in Chelsea and in Real Madrid prior to that as the players kept reiterating that it was the half-time team talk that led them to pull off one of the best upsets in recent times.

To come up with that roarer of a performance in the second half, you gotta be clear in your head about who you are doing it for. And that's exactly why this could potentially be the beginning of great things for Jose Mourinho's Red Army.