The Brazilian kicked out at Jeremy Doku as some of Manchester United’s players lost their discipline in the 3-0 loss at home to City

Former Manchester United right-back Gary Neville hit out at Antony for an “absolutely ridiculous, embarrassing” kick at Manchester City’s Jeremy Doku in the 3-0 derby defeat to the champions at Old Trafford on Sunday.

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The Brazilian winger petulantly swung a leg at Doku and was shown a yellow card in the closing stages of a one-sided Premier League clash, with the Belgian also booked for squaring up to the former Ajax player.

But replays showed that the South American made no attempt at getting the ball and he could easily have been shown a straight red card, with Neville understanding Doku’s frustration.

The former United and England defender, on co-commentary duties for Sky Sports, said: “Doku’s absolutely right, Antony just has a kick at him.

“Absolutely right, Doku. United have lost their discipline. That’s absolutely ridiculous, I’d just send him off. It’s absolutely ridiculous from Antony, it’s embarrassing.”

Haaland opened the scoring with a penalty after 26 minutes and doubled City’s lead with a header early in the second half, before setting up Phil Foden for a third late in the game.

After failing to put City away for the most of the game, United’s players started to lose patience with each other in the closing minutes of the encounter. In stoppage time, Antony, who replaced Christian Eriksen with four minutes remaining, became especially enraged and slapped Doku during their struggle for possession.

United was just not good enough to upset City, who had defeated the Red Devils in five of their previous six games. Throughout, Erik ten Hag’s team was unimpressive and started to lose composure as it became more and more obvious that City was winning easily on their home ground.