Southampton v Man Utd LIVE: Marcus Rashford scores in comfortable win to lift pressure on Erik ten Hag

71 mins:

Time for United changes now. Manuel Ugarte will be making his debut from the bench following his £41.1m move from Paris Saint-Germain on deadline day.

Joining him will be Alejandro Garnacho and Harry Maguire.

68 mins:

The changes from Southampton have at least slowed United’s momentum.

Bruno Fernandes is booked for kicking the ball away after it had rolled out of play.

62 mins: FOUR changes from Southampton boss Russell Martin, which are greeted by a few murmurs from the home fans.

Dibling, Ugochukwu, Archer and Brereton-Diaz are off.

Lallana, Fraser, Cornet and Stewart are on.

59 mins: Diallo is getting so much space to drive forward down the right. Time and time again United break, and this time it takes a strong challenge from Stephens to block a cross from Fernandes.

Southampton have dropped out of the game. United completely dominating.

SAVE! An effort from 25 yards from Rashford, from the angle! Ramsdale is equal to it, but that’s another sign of Rashford’s confidence that he took it on from there.

55 mins: Rinse and repeat. Diallo flies forward on the right and works the ball inside to Zirkzee, whose touch is heavy. The striker, who would also love a goal, can’t find room to get his shot away, before a Southampton clearance rebounds off Mazraoui until it is finally claimed by Ramsdale. United should be looking to kill this game off.

51 mins: United fly forward again through Rashford down the left - the forward looking more confident now after breaking his scoring drought. Rashford looks for the far corner but his shot is deflected and loops wide. Ramsdale gathers the corner.

48 mins: The game is set up for United to counter-attack now, and the visitors get an early chance to add the third right at the start of the second half. Diallo finds the overlapping run of Mazraoui down the right and the full-back attempts to catch out Ramsdale at his near post.

Ramsdale had it covered and the shot goes wide.

We’re ready to get back underway. No changes at the break.

That was Marcus Rashford’s first goal for Manchester United since the FA Cup quarter-final win against Liverpool in March 2024 - 181 days ago.

You could see how much it meant to him after a difficult start to the season.

Erik ten Hag and Russell Martin head into the break preparing very different team talks than if Cameron Archer had converted Southampton’s penalty at 0-0. Instead, Andre Onana saved well down low to his right, and within eight minutes goals from Matthijs de Ligt and Marcus Rashford had put the visitors two goals up.

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