MANCHESTER UNITED thrashed Ralph Hasenhuttl’s nine-man Southampton to go second in the Premier League.
- Final score: Man Utd 9-0 Southampton
- Goals: Wan Bissaka 18′, Rashford 25′, Bednarek OG 34′, Cavani 39′, Martial 69′ 90′, McTominay 71′, Fernandes (pen) 87′, James 90′.
- Red cards: Jankewitz, Bednarek
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THAT’S ALL FOR TONIGHT
Wow! What a game of football, hopefully we see more of the same throughout the rest of the week.
Goodnight!
NINE AND DANDY
IT WAS JUST Like 1995 all over again.
A kung-fu kick and a 9-0 win, writes Neil Custis.
Man Utd 9-0 Southampton match report
RASHFORD’S ASSESSMENT
Man Utd forward Marcus Rashford gave his post-match thoughts to BT Sport.
OLE SPEAKS
Man Utd boss Ole Gunnar Solskjaer spoke after his sides impressive 9-0 win over Southampton: “We have been waiting for them to show the magic but that was a night they could go and enjoy.
“We haven’t had too many of those, where I can just sit down in the second half and enjoy the football.
“They enjoyed it – some good performances. We’ll get lots of confidence from a performance like this and scoring goals is always good for forwards and a team.”
Solskjaer had his say on the early red card: “You don’t really see many of those tackles around any more and I’m glad Scott [McTominay] is OK.
“It looked like a bad one when he stayed down, but he’s got away with a couple of bruises there.”
And on his two magnificant full-backs he said: “They were brilliant. Aaron kept going in there to the far post and Luke kept putting crosses in, like I asked him to do.
“It’s always hard but it’s just about getting quality balls into the box, which we did.”
TWITTER STORM
As Bednarek went down the tunnel, he said: “Martial said it’s not a foul!”
And other former strikers concur, both Peter Crouch and Michael Owen have weighed in on the decision.
REF WATCH
Mike Dean put on quite the show at the Theatre of Dreams!
FULL-TIME STATS
Man Utd dominated the ball from minute one all the way through to minute 90 – largely thanks to the early red card.
United tripled the amount of passes Southampton made, and had a WHOPPING 55 touches inside the opposition penalty area.
Twenty-four shots in total for the Reds, 14 of those on target.
And for the Saints, three yellow cards, two red cards, three shots in total, ONE of those on target.
Mike Dean….. Can’t not mention him! He was on fire with the cards and big decisions tonight!
FT: MAN UTD 9-0 SOUTHAMPTON
What a game of football! What more could you want? NINE, yes NINE goals – all for ONE team.
Martial opened the scoring in the second half, smashing the ball past a helpless McCarthy.
McTominay added another shortly after with a wonderful effort from the edge of the penalty area.
Bednarek conceded a penalty on minute 85, denying Martial of a goalscoring opportunity – Mike Dean went over to the monitor before giving the defender his marching orders.
Fernandes hopped, skipped and added United’s seventh.
Martial got his brace in stoppage time, bringing down Wan-Bissaka’s cross and firing into the back of the net.
And right at the death, Fernandes headed Greenwood’s excellent cross into the path of James who steered the ball past McCarthy.
UNBELIEVABLE!
PEEEEEEEEEEEP!!
MIKE DEAN PUTS SOUTHAMPTON OUT OF THEIR MISERY!!
WHAT A GAME OF FOOTBALL!!
MAN UTD 9-0 SOUTHAMPTON
90+2. Greenwood cuts inside off the right-hand side onto his left foot and he gets his head up and floats a cross towards the back post.
Fernandes meets the cross and heads the ball into the path of James who steers United’s NINTH past McCarthy!
UNBELIEVABLE!
GOOOOOOOOAAAAAAALLL!!
IT’S NINE!!
JAMES FINDS THE BACK OF THE NET!!
MAN UTD 8-0 SOUTHAMPTON
90. Three additional minutes to be added on at the end of the second half.
MAN UTD 8-0 SOUTHAMPTON
90. Lindelof works the ball out-wide to Wan-Bissaka on the right-hand side, and the right-back delivers a cross into the box first-time.
Martial controls the ball with his chest before firing past McCarthy! United hit the Saints for EIGHT!
GOOOOOAAAAALLLL!!
MARTIAL BRACE!!
MAN UTD HAVE ANOTHER!!
MAN UTD 7-0 SOUTHAMPTON
87. Hop…. Skip…… And it’s SEVEN! Calm as you like from Fernandes!
Southampton’s night goes from worse too, well…… I’m not too sure it can get any worse!
GOOOOOOOOOAAAAAALLL!!
IT’S SEVEN!!
FERNANDES SCORES FROM THE SPOT!!
MAN UTD 6-0 SOUTHAMPTON
85. RED CARD!
Bednarek is off! Two red cards for the Saints, WOW!
Back-to-back games on BT Sport with a team being reduced to NINE men! unbelievable!
MAN UTD 6-0 SOUTHAMPTON
84. Mike Dean has been told to go over and take a look at the VAR screen, possible red card! Unreal scenes at Old Trafford!
MAN UTD 6-0 SOUTHAMPTON
82. PENALTY!
Bednarek catches Martial inside the penalty area, VAR is having a look once again! Will it be seven?
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81. Martial plays the ball inside to Fernandes and continues his run into the penalty area.
Fernandes lifts the ball into the box, but Southampton clear.
GOALS GALORE
Anthony Martial and Scott McTominay have added two second half goals to the four United scored in the first 45!
Credit: Getty Images
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79. Just over ten minutes left at the end of the second half, will there be more goals? Let’s hope so!
MAN UTD 6-0 SOUTHAMPTON
77. 19-year-old Allan Tchaptchet is on for his Saints debut, replacing Djenepo.
MAN UTD 6-0 SOUTHAMPTON
73. JUST WIDE!
What is going on?! Fred spots the run of Martial in behind the Saints backline and plays a wonderful pass.
Martial controls the ball well with his first touch and lifts the ball over the keeper with his second, BUT it rolls JUST wide of the post!
Chance after chance after CHANCE!
MAN UTD 6-0 SOUTHAMPTON
73. WHAT A MISS!
Djenepo slips the ball through to Redmond inside the United penalty area.
Redmond spots the run of Adams and pulls the ball back to the penalty spot and the forward fluffs his effort over the bar!
Source: Soccer - thesun.co.uk
