Pablo Zabaleta looks back on it as the moment Manchester turned blue. FA Cup semi-final day, 2011. When the first meeting between City and United at Wembley was won by Yaya Toure's strike - and the club that had lived in the shadow of their rivals for so long emerged into the light.
Toure found the back of the same net again the following month as City beat Stoke to lift their first trophy in 35 years – and a decade on they are closing in on a fifth Premier League title while their neighbours are left to pine for Sir Alex Ferguson.
For Zabaleta, the Argentine who became an Etihad cult hero after joining City just a few days before Sheikh Mansour's takeover in the summer of 2008, knocking United out was a watershed moment. “Even after the
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