Last night was witness to an anomaly, something extraordinary and out of this world. While we expect goals in football matches, we usually don’t expect this much of a heavy trashing. Manchester United proved who the boss was by finding the back of the net 9 times against Southampton, who were 2 men down.
Southampton’s problems started in the 2nd minute when Jankewitz (Midfielder) was shown a red card after a reckless challenge on McTominay. Hasenhuttl, Head Coach Southampton had to rework his tactics, but that wasn’t going to help much.
Wan-Bissaka opened the scoreline with a perfectly timed run to meet Luke Shaw’s pinpoint cross into the box. Shaw provided another assist in the 39th minute for Cavani, but that came after Shaw worked a perfect ball to Greenwood who laid a weighted pass for Rashford to score in the 25th minute.
It just wasn’t a night for Southampton as defender Bednarek scored an own goal in the 34th minute and was sent off in the 86th minute for an all-timed challenge, resulting in a penalty gracefully converted by Bruno Fernandes.
Martial ended his goal drought after coming on for Cavani at the beginning of the second half and finishing a cross from Bruno Fernandes in the 69th minute, and scoring again in the 90th.
McTominay and Daniel James also found the net, once each.
Manchester United had a total of 14 shots on target, against Southampton 9 men 1 shot.
United fans all over the world were thrown into a state of ecstasy, celebrating 9 times during 1 match.
Manchester United ended that evening with 44 points, par with Manchester City who have 2 outstanding games.
