In the 22nd round of the English league, Manchester United footballers outclassed weakened Southampton 9-0 at home, leveled their highest victory in Premier League history and scored the city’s leading rival, City. The table leaders have two good matches.
Southampton at Old Trafford pulled a short run from the start and received a red card from Alexandre Jankewitz in the second minute. United scored four goals in the opening half in overtime. Aaron Wan-Bissaka, Marcus Rashford, Edinson Cavani hit and Jan Bednarek headed for his own goal.
United dominated even after the change of sides and the debacle was highlighted by other goals alternating Anthony Martial, Scott McTominay and Bruno Fernandes from the penalty, before which Bednarek was also eliminated. Then Martial scored the second goal and another substitute Daniel James closed the score.
The Manchester team won after two rounds, with the result of 9: 0 already shame Leicester the year before and in 1995 Ipswich. Southampton lost for the fourth time in a row and is twelfth, last season the “Saints” suffered a nine-goal debacle with Leicester.
The Arsenal in Wolverhampton started well. Bukayo Saka hits the bar in the first minute, then his goal didn’t pay due to the offside. After half an hour of play, Nicolas Pépé sent the guests to the lead.
The problems of the “Gunners” were started at the set time of the first half by David Luiz, who fouled the escaping William José at the age of 16 and was eliminated. Rúben Neves equalized for the penalty.
Shortly after the break, his Portuguese teammate Joao Moutinho turned the score around the show with a long-range shot. Arsenalu, Bernd Leno was booked for kicking the ball away after the whistle. The “wolves” succeeded after a series of eight rounds without victory and are fourteen.
The last Sheffield at home defeated West Bromwich 2: 1, won the Premier League for the third time in a season and revived hopes of rescue. He loses ten points on the first non-descending place.
English Football League – Round 22: Sheffield United – West Bromwich 2:1 (56. Bogle, 73. Sharp – 41. Phillips), Wolverhampton – Arsenal 2:1 (45.+5 Neves z pen., 49. Moutinho – 32. Pépé), Manchester United – Southampton 9:0 (69. a 90. Martial, 18. Wan-Bissaka, 25. Rashford, 34. vlastní Bednarek, 39. Cavani, 71. McTominay, 87. Fernandes z pen., 90.+3 James), Newcastle – Crystal Palace 1:2 (2. Shelvey – 21. Riedewald, 25. Cahill).
| 1. | Manchester City | 20 | 13 | 5 | 2 | 37:13 | 44 |
| 2. | Manchester United | 22 | 13 | 5 | 4 | 46:27 | 44 |
| 3. | Liverpool | 21 | 11 | 7 | 3 | 43:24 | 40 |
| 4. | Leicester | 21 | 12 | 3 | 6 | 37:25 | 39 |
| 5. | West Ham United | 21 | 10 | 5 | 6 | 31:27 | 35 |
| 6. | Tottenham | 20 | 9 | 6 | 5 | 34:21 | 33 |
| 7. | Chelsea | 21 | 9 | 6 | 6 | 35:23 | 33 |
| 8. | Everton | 19 | 10 | 3 | 6 | 29:24 | 33 |
| 9. | Aston Villa | 19 | 10 | 2 | 7 | 34:21 | 32 |
| 10. | Arsenal | 22 | 9 | 4 | 9 | 27:22 | 31 |
| 11. | Leeds | 20 | 9 | 2 | 9 | 35:36 | 29 |
| 12. | Southampton | 21 | 8 | 5 | 8 | 27:34 | 29 |
| 13. | Crystal Palace | 22 | 8 | 5 | 9 | 27:37 | 29 |
| 14. | Wolverhampton | 22 | 7 | 5 | 10 | 23:31 | 26 |
| 15. | Burnley | 20 | 6 | 4 | 10 | 13:26 | 22 |
| 16. | Newcastle | 22 | 6 | 4 | 12 | 22:36 | 22 |
| 17. | Brighton | 21 | 4 | 9 | 8 | 23:29 | 21 |
| 18. | Fulham | 20 | 2 | 8 | 10 | 17:29 | 14 |
| 19. | West Bromwich | 22 | 2 | 6 | 14 | 18:52 | 12 |
| 20. | Sheffield United | 22 | 3 | 2 | 17 | 14:35 | 11 |
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