Everton vs Manchester United LIVE: Premier League result and reaction after Alejandro Garnacho scores stunner
Everton 0-3 Manchester United: Garnacho’s stunning overhead kick silenced Goodison Park as the visitors won a Premier League game by more than one goal for the first time this season
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Your support makes all the difference.Manchester United’s Alejandro Garnacho scored with a magical overhead kick in the third minute to send the visitors on their way to a 3-0 victory over an Everton team already reeling in their first Premier League game after being docked 10 points.
With a strike that drew comparisons to Wayne Rooney’s famous goal for United in the 2011 Manchester derby, the 19-year-old Argentine leapt acrobatically to meet Diogo Dalot’s cross, firing the ball into the opposite corner past Jordan Pickford before celebrating with a Cristiano Ronaldo-style pirouette.
Erik ten Hag’s United team are sixth in the standings on 24 points after 13 games, while Everton, who were 14th before their points deduction for breaches of the league’s financial rules, are second-bottom on four points.
Marcus Rashford doubled United’s lead with a penalty in the 56th, awarded after VAR ruled Anthony Martial was tripped by Ashley Young. Captain Bruno Fernandes gave the ball to Rashford, who had only scored once this season and not since Sept. 3.
Martial sent hundreds of Everton fans heading to the Goodison Park exits in the 75th minute when he ran onto Fernandes’s pass and dinked it over Pickford for an easy goal.
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Everton 0-1 Manchester United
18 mins: Onana almost concedes a corner with a poor touch inside his box but is able to clear the ball out for a throw-in.
It’s still a more-than-lively atmosphere inside Goodison Park from the home fans. There certainly making their voices heard.
Everton 0-1 Manchester United
13 mins: The boos continue from Everton as we pass the ten-minute mark. Fireworks have been set off outside the ground now as Shaw fires over with a half-volley on the edge of the box.
An action-packed start to this encounter.
Everton 0-1 Manchester United
"I said it was the best goal I've ever seen live, but I think it's the best goal I've ever seen,” Gary Neville says on commentary about Garnacho’s strike.
Wayne Rooney’s against Man City and Gareth Bale’s against Liverpool in the Champions League final spring to mind for me as other overhead kick contenders.
Everton 0-1 Manchester United
10 mins: Calvert-Lewin drifts out wide to receive the ball but his eventual effort is scuffed and Onana makes a comfortable save down low to his right.
Everton 0-1 Manchester United
7 mins: Jack Harrison is incensed as the referee gives a goal-kick when the Everton winger thought he had won a corner. He may well have a case having looked at the replays.
GOAL! Everton 0-1 Manchester United (Garnacho, 3 mins)
Oh. My. Word.
A wondergoal from Garnacho to open the scoring. The cross from Dalot is behind the forward but he backpeddles before pulling off a sublime overhead kick which flies into the top corner. Pickford is helpless and Goodison Park is briefly stunned into silence.
That’s the goal of the season wrapped up by November.
KICK-OFF! Everton 0-0 Manchester United
A loud atmopshere at Goodison Park as this game gets underway. Thousands of signs are being waved by Everton fans with the word ‘corrupt’ on - a clear sign of how fans inside this stadium feel about the ten-point deduction handed down to their club.
Erik ten Hag speaking to Sky Sports before kick-off
On giving Kobbie Mainoo his first start: “We have all seen him in pre-season, but then he dropped out with a bad injury. He worked hard to get back, he’s back and match-fit and has played some games - he’s prepared and ready.
On Luke Shaw’s return: “You miss every player, but Luke Shaw is massive. We’re very happy he’s back because he will definitely contribute to our success.”
Kick-off fast approaching
We’ve got about ten minutes until kick-off in Merseyside and the stands are packed. It should be a fiery atmosphere generated by the home side after everything that has gone on recently and they’ll be keen to play their part in a much-needed home win today.
Everton vs Manchester United
Everton need a win today but have won just one of their last eight Premier League meetings with Manchester United (D4 L3), a 1-0 home win in April 2022. Furthermore, should they lose today they would become the first side to lose 40 games to a single opponent in the competition’s history.
The fans in Goodison Park will be hoping that doesn’t come to fruition.
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