Cristiano Ronaldo’s brilliance secures a thrilling 2-1 Manchester United win against Everton.
Manchester United produced a masterclass in the first half of the Sunday’s late kick off as they outplayed Frank Lampard’s Everton to win 2-1.
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Alex Iwobi opened the scoring in the 5th minute with a ferocious shot outside the box. The super eagles international fired Everton into the lead after his effort went past De Gea into the top right corner.
United responded ten minutes later through Antony who made a clean run behind Everton defense to meet Anthony Martial’s pass before producing a sublime finish beyond Jordan Pickford.
Eric Ten Hag then lost Martial to injury. The french international had picked a hip injury in warm up and though was cleared to feature for united, he had to be substituted just before the half hour mark as the injury constrained his movement.
Ronaldo sealed the victory for the Red Devils before half time as he came off the bench to replace Martial. Casemiro played a superb assist to the prolific winger who didn’t hesitate to send a fierce shot on goal and past Pickford to mark his 700th club career goal in style.
Frank Lampard’s side resumed the final half of the game with intent and constantly caused unrest to the United’s defense. The Toffees failed to create a clear cut chance to get back into the game despite enjoying better part of the final half.
Manchester United scored a third via Marcus Rashford after Ronaldo squared a flick pass to him but the goal was ruled out for handball. Video Assisting Referee showed that the English youngster had handled the ball in the build up leading to the goal. The win pushed United into 5th position in the EPL table with 15 points after playing a total of eight games this season.
Ten Hag a lot of positive words about his team and couldn’t help but praise them for the huge results away at Merseyside. “Goodison Park is difficult, the crowd behind but they are in a good run, seven games unbeaten. “We were quickly 1-0 down but the reaction of the team was good,
One of our aims is to deal better with setbacks and they stayed composed, played out of the game. It was quite impressive from our side.” Ten Hag said. “In the first half we were pressing well. Everton did not come out and it was difficult for them to get a lot of crosses in, we didn’t allow them and I am happy with that. Casemiro will anticipate quickly and we saw during the game how important he is, winning a lot of balls.
He also played the ball for Ronaldo. He grew into the game.” He added. “The ball can always come in, we should have scored already for a third and then it was game over. That is the next step we have to make, happy with the result of course and also for a lot of periods happy with the performance.
Match Details:
Everton: Pickford; Coleman (c) (Garner 75), Coady, Tarkowski, Mykolenko; Gana (Calvert-Lewin 76), Onana, Iwobi; Gray, Gordon (McNeil 67), Maupay (Rondon 84).
Unused: Begovic, Keane, Davies, Vinagre, John.
Goal: Iwobi 5.
Booked: Onana, Gordon.
Manchester United winning scorers: De Gea; Dalot, Lindelof, Martinez, Shaw; Eriksen (McTominay 83), Casemiro; Fernandes (c), Antony (Varane 93), Martial (Ronaldo 29); Rashford.
Unused Subs: Heaton, Malacia, Fred, Sancho, Pellistri, Elanga, McTominay.
Goals: Antony 15; Ronaldo 44.
Booked: McTominay.
Referee: David Coote
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