Sheffield United – A Girl in Red

The hat-trick drought is finally lifted by Anthony Martial, who became the first player to score three goals in 7 years. The last player to do so was Robin Van Persie in 2013 against Aston Villa.

United hosted Sheffield United at Old Trafford with the aim of stealing all three points and they did just that. Which mean the Reds continue their unbeaten run (13 games) in all competitions.

Manchester United move closer to top 4 who are just 2 points away from Chelsea who plays Man City in their next fixture.

Martial’s firsts: Anthony Martial has scored his first hat-trick and scored in three successive PL home games for the first time in his United career.

After Sheffield United’s loss yesterday they are three consecutive games without a win since the PL resumed and sitting on the 8th position on the Premier League table.
Over a week ago Sheffield was two points behind United with a game in hand.

With Martial’s three wonderful goals he has equaled the the number of goals (19) scored by his fellow team mate Marcus Rashford in all competitions.
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Another amazing stat: Rashford, Martial and Greenwood have now scored 50 goals between them this season.
Source: Manchester United.

With Pogba back United are much stronger and looking confident.

Anthony, well done. Your first hat-trick for United, how did it feel?
“I feel very good. It’s my first hat-trick in my career, so I hope I will score more. I’m happy because the team played very good today so I think it’s good.”

Was your favourite goal the hat-trick one? It was a great build-up.
“The last one, I think the last one. It was a very good goal. The first two were two good goals, like a real number nine and I know the manager is happy for these to go in. He was happy.”

You’ve got 19 goals, Marcus has got 19 goals – is there a little competition to see who gets to 20 first?
“He gave me one or two assists today, so the most important [thing] is to win. I tried to give him a chance to score – no competition, we just want to win.”

Obviously, you’d love to score a hat-trick in front of 75,000 people screaming your name.

“It was really nice. The fans were happy… no, it was a little bit strange! I know they will be happy for me and it’s good to play like this.”
Anthony Martial

Robin Van Persie tweeted after the game.

wtch full match highlights and Martial’s first hat-trick.

United play Norwich on 27th, 10:00 Pm IST.

Ole Gunnar Solskjaer was encouraged by Manchester United’s performance against Tottenham Hotspur on Friday evening and he is expecting all three points against Sheffield United today.

In the reverse fixture, United was two down in the first half itself but made a come back after 70′ min in the game. But 90′ minute goal by Sheffield’s McBurnie led it to a draw.

Sheffield has had a bad start since the Premier League was resumed, they lost against Newcastle and had their goal disallowed against Aston Villa.

United celebrate goal against Sheffield.

After drawing against Spurs the Reds will look for 3 points today. Ole is determined and happy with the performance of his team. Manchester City’s Europe ban gives United an advantage to compete in the Champions League and United will leave no chance to work towards it.

It will be hard to see six-goal thriller again today but Ole will make sure United do not share or give away the points today. United have conceded only thrice in their last 12 fixture.

The Red in the training earlier this week.

Solskjaer will be looking to start Pogba and we will likely be able to see his much-awaited partnership with Bruno.

After the game against Spurs, most of us would agree on starting players like Greenwood, Pogba and bench Martial and James.

“We looked at the game and evaluated, and I think we should be happy with the performance. We’re never happy when we don’t win a game, but we created chances, we were closest to winning the game. We didn’t really have too many moments when we felt under pressure during the game. Yeah, it took a little bit of time to get going, as you would expect after three months, but some of the play was excellent and some individual quality was excellent. So we’re disappointed with one point still, but looking forward now to Sheffield United”.
Ole

Since Bruno Fernandes’ debut, no United player has scored more goals (4), created more assists (4), had more shots (38), shots on target (15), created more chances (26) or played more passes into the penalty area (98).

Scott McTominay signed a long term contract which will keep him till 2025 at the club.

“Yeah. We don’t have any other injury issues. I think they all managed to get through the game. They were tired towards the end, some of them, but we’ve got another 90 minutes under our belt and we’re ready to go again.”
Ole on injuries

Manchester United vs Sheffield United tonight at 10:30 Pm IST.

Ole on the reverse fixture which ended in 3-3.

“Yeah, it was one of those that we showed in moments there what we can do. In those 10-15 minutes in the second half, we were exceptional, and then they also proved how hard they are to play against. They’re hard to break down, good on set plays, they’re strong, they’re fit, well organised, and they had the fans behind them. It’s a difficult place to go to, Bramall Lane, when you meet them on a day like that. Or anywhere that Man United go, it’s a cup final for the home fans. So it was an extraordinary game. Too bad we didn’t hold on to the three points.”

3-3 match highlight of our previous meeting with Sheffield.

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