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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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 0-2 Manchester United
57 mins: SAVE! Everton almost hit back straight away as Gueye lets fly from range but it’s a superb diving save from Onana to tip the ball around the post for a corner.
GOAL! Everton 0-2 Manchester United (Rashford, 56 mins)
A slight surprise as Rashford steps up to take the penalty rather than Fernandes but it’s the desired result for the visitors as the England international smashes the ball past Pickford and into the roof of the net.
United double their lead and it’s a long way back for Everton now.
Everton 0-1 Manchester United
55 mins: PENALTY! The referee takes a look at the monitor and overturns his original decision. There was definitely contact between Young and Martial so it’s understandable why it’s been awarded.
Everton 0-1 Manchester United
52 mins: Martial darts inside the area and has a coming together with Young. The referee initially books Martial for simulation but VAR is having a look now...
John Brooks heads to the monitor.
Everton 0-1 Manchester United
47 mins: An early sight of goal for United as McTominay tries his luck from long range. Well over the bar, though.
KICK-OFF! Everton 0-1 Manchester United
Everton get us back underway in this second half. Can they find the much-needed equaliser in the second half?
Gary Neville hails ‘magical’ Alejandro Garnacho bicycle kick for United against Everton
Gary Neville hailed Alejandro Garnacho’s stunning ‘magical’ bicycle kick against Everton.
The pre-match talk had been dominated by Everton’s 10-point deduction and Erik ten Hag’s decision to award teenager Kobbie Mainoo his first Premier League start in place of Marcus Rashford.
But Manchester United’s Garnacho stole the headlines with what could yet become the goal of the season.
Diogo Dalot sent a cross in from the right and Garnacho hit a stunning overhead kick, drawing similarities to Rooney’s feat in the Manchester derby back in 2011.
Garnacho spotted the opportunity immediately, adjusted his body and rose into the air to hit it perfectly into the top corner giving England number one Jordan Pickford no chance to make the save.
Gary Neville hails ‘magical’ Alejandro Garnacho bicycle kick against Everton
Alejandro Garnacho handed his side the lead at Everton with a perfectly-struck overhead kick
HALF-TIME: Everton 0-1 Manchester United
A slender lead at the break:
HALF-TIME: Everton 0-1 Manchester United
And here is that goal we’ve been talking about from Garnacho. What a strike:
HALF-TIME: Everton 0-1 Manchester United
More boos from the Everton faithful as the half-time whistle goes. Their team are behind at the break after Garnacho’s sublime overhead kick but they’ve been by far the better team since then.
Calvert-Lewin, McNeil, Doucoure and Gueye all with big chances that have passed the home side by. They’ll have to be more clinical after the break.
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