Manchester United halted their two-game shedding run with a 3-0 victory over 10-man Southampton at St Mary’s, with Matthijs de Ligt, Marcus Rashford and Alejandro Garnacho on the right track.
United emerged from the primary worldwide break of 2024-25 14th within the Premier League desk following defeats to Brighton and Liverpool, however they obtained again to profitable methods after surviving an early scare on the south coast.
Making his first Premier League begin, Tyler Dibling gained a penalty for Southampton within the first half, however Andre Onana stored out Cameron Archer’s tame kick and the momentum shifted from there.
De Ligt headed in his first United purpose simply two minutes later, then a superb Rashford strike, curled into the bottom-right nook from the sting of the field, gave them respiration room.
Garnacho got here off the bench so as to add to Southampton’s woes within the second half, with Jack Stephens’ wild lunge on the Argentine leading to him being proven a straight pink card with 11 minutes to play.
Garnacho then obtained himself on the scoresheet six minutes into stoppage time, lashing into the roof of the web after Diogo Dalot discovered him with a cutback from the byline.
Three targets Three factors #MUFC || #SOUMUN pic.twitter.com/MJlBTco0MF
— Manchester United (@ManUtd) September 14, 2024
Information Debrief: Rashford again in type
Rashford’s dip in type in 2023-24 was a serious contributing think about United ending a lowly eighth within the Premier League, the ahead netting simply seven league targets after plundering 17 the earlier marketing campaign.
Nevertheless, he confirmed supreme confidence for his Forty first-minute strike, which gave United a two-goal cushion at a vital second.
That effort ended a run of 12 video games for United and not using a purpose for Rashford, who had solely beforehand endured two longer droughts for the membership – 17-match runs that led to January 2017 and August 2022.
Three of Rashford’s final 4 Premier League targets have come from exterior the penalty space, and for the reason that begin of 2022-23, solely Eberechi Eze (eight), Phil Foden (seven) and Kevin De Bruyne (six) have scored extra such targets within the competitors than his 5.
