Peep peep! United move up to fourth, at least for the next few hours, after a thrilling win over Bournemouth. Mason Greenwood scored two sizzling goals, while Anthony Martial and Marcus Rashford both grabbed their 20th of the season. After seven years of post-Fergie misery, United might finally be going places. Bournemouth, alas, are going down.
90+5 min Ramsdale makes yet another save, leaping to his left to tip Fred’s shot over the bar.
90+2 min Ramsdale makes another save, falling to his left to push away Fernandes’s long-range shot.
84 min And now Ighalo misses an excellent chance, clipping the ball wide of the far post after running onto Fernandes’ through pass. He should have scored.
83 min Ramsdale makes a fine block from Shaw, who poked the ball towards goal after pulling down Pogba’s lovely crossfield pass.
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80 min A lovely deep cross from James is muffed by Rashford beyond the far post. I think Martial got in his way.
79 min Martial wriggles away from Kelly, who recovers excellently to block Martial’s shot at the expense of a corner. It’s cleared by Rico.
78 min Rashford’s low cross flashes across the area, just in front of Martial (who was offside) and James (who wasn’t). In the other Premier League game, Jamie Vardy has scored his 100th Premier League goal to put Leicester 2-0 up against Crystal Palace.
74 min The corner is sliced towards his own goal by King, and Ramsdale dances across his line to make a comfortable save.
70 min A replay of the Fernandes goal suggests that Matic’s heel was offside, and he was close to Ramsdale’s eyeline so I’m surprised it wasn’t disallowed. I don’t really understand the laws of football any more.
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69 min The last time United scored six in a league game was the 8-2 win over Arsenal in August 2011.
68 min “Somewhat ironically, I was just mumbling to myself the other day that the only goals that won’t be VAR-checked (and enjoyed with full elan) will be from free kicks,” says Matthew Richman. “How I do appreciate being corrected.”
66 min Three changes for Bournemouth. Harry Wilson, Dan Gosling and Philip Billing replace Stanislas, Solanke and Lewis Cook. And Manchester United have brought Fred on for Nemanja Matic.
66 min: Rashford has a goal disallowed for offside. It’ll be checked. It was a great move from United, which ended with Rashford sliding in Wan-Bissaka’s cross. It’s extremely close, but his knee was just offside.
61 min Ramsdale probably shouldn’t have been beaten on that side. In his defence, Fernandes absolutely smashed it.
GOAL GIVEN! Bournemouth thought Matic was offside when Fernandes took the free-kick. VAR decided not.
Another brilliant goal! Fernandes whipped the free-kick over the wall and into the far corner, but it’s being checked by VAR.
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55 min VAR checked for offside against Rashford in the build-up. It was very tight but the goal stands.
This kid is a star. That’s his 15th goal of the season, and it was unstoppable. Matic found him with his back to goal on the edge of the D. He turned and veered to the right, away from Rico, before blistering a rising drive back across goal. It went through the fingers of the leaping Ramsdale and into the top corner. Greenwood has beaten Ramsdale for pace on both his goals, once with his left foot and once with the right.
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51 min: Danjuma has a goal disallowed for offside! Bournemouth are all over United at the moment. They broke three on three, with Danjuma beating de Gea with a nonchalant toepoke. But he was offside when King put him through on goal.
50 min That was a shambolic start to the second half by United. Maguire’s sloppy pass eventually led to Danjuma hitting the post; then Matic played an equally loose pass towards Bailly that he had to control with his shoulder/arm.
Joshua King scores emphatically, sidefooting the penalty into the corner at pace. de Gea went the right way but couldn’t get there.
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What a start to the second half. This is all a bit of a mess, and VAR are checking whether a) it came off Bailly’s shoulder or the arm and b) whether it was inside the area. Both are very close. I’m not sure there’s enough evidence to overturn the original decision, so I think the penalty decision will stand.
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46 min Peep peep! United begin the second half in driving rain. Eric Bailly has replaced Victor Lindelof at half-time, while Arnaut Danjuma is on for the injured David Brooks for Bournemouth.
Peep peep! Manchester United started sluggishly and went behind to a fine goal from Junior Stanislas, but their response was emphatic. Mason Greenwood added another ruthless finish to his portfolio, Marcus Rashford scored from the penalty spot and Anthony Martial wafted a beauty into the top corner.
Anthony Martial gets his 20th goal of the season, and it’s a beauty. United moved the ball patiently from side to side, looking for an opening. Eventually Fernandes found Martial on the left, just outside the area. Shaw made a good overlapping run to distract the defence, which allowed Martial to zip infield and curl a quite glorious shot into the far top corner. Brilliant.
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38 min “Bloody Adam Smith,” says Ian Copestake. “He should stick to a being a Scottish economist, philosopher, and author as well as a moral philosopher, a pioneer of political economy, and a key figure during the Scottish Enlightenment, known as ‘The Father of Economics’’ or ‘’The Father of Capitalism.’ The [redacted].”
36 min: Brooks has a goal disallowed! It came after a couple of dodgy passes, first by de Gea and then Maguire, but Solanke was offside in the build-up.
It’s Rashford, not Fernandes, who takes the penalty – and he scores, sliding it into the bottom-right corner. Ramsdale went the right way but couldn’t quite get there.
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PENALTY TO UNITED! The corner leads to a scramble in the Bournemouth area and a clear handball from Adam Smith.
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