United’s decline under Moyes this season has been alarming and highlighted by the heavy defeats against City and Liverpool. But the under-pressure manager admitted that Manuel Pellegrini’s City are showing the levels that United must now aim to emulate. “I think we played a very good side and it is the standard and level we need to try and aspire to get to at this moment in time,” Moyes said. “We need to play better. We need to come up a couple of levels ourselves and at the moment we are not there.