Manchester United vs Crystal Palace LIVE: Result and reaction from Premier League fixture today
Re-live all the updates from Old Trafford
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Your support makes all the difference.Manchester United fell to Crystal Palace as Ole Gunnar Solskjaer’s side began their Premier League campaign one week late on Saturday.
Palace took the lead through Andros Townsend after just seven minutes, and they doubled their advantage on 74 minutes when Wilfried Zaha netted a re-take from the penalty spot after David de Gea stepped off his line when saving Jordan Ayew’s initial effort.
United debutant Donny van de Beek came off the bench to pull one back for the hosts, but Zaha bagged his brace with five minutes remaining at Old Trafford to put the result beyond doubt. Re-live all the updates below:
63 mins: Donny van de Beek is getting ready to come on for Man Utd. Greenwood swoops in from the right and shoots with his left foot but he doesn’t beat the first defender.
60 mins: Massive chance for Mason Greenwood. Harry Maguire sends the ball over to the right for Timothy Fosu-Mensah. Rashford makes a run down the right wing and drags Mitchell away. Fosu-Mensah flicks the ball into the back post where Greenwood wins the header but misses the target.
57 mins: Martial tries to worm his way into the box, he passes to Rashford who sends a pass to the byline but Martial is body blocked before he can chase it.
Fosu-Mensah is shown a yellow card for a sliding tackle on Mitchell.
54 mins: McTominay heads out a Palace corner and Fernandes sends it up the pitch for Greenwood. He tussles with Ward and wins a free kick. Ward goes in the book.
51 mins: Paul Pogba glides past a couple of defenders and has a go from range but Guaita can save it with relative ease.
48 mins: Ayew shoves McTominay off the ball on the halfway line and Townsend picks it up. Ayew makes his run in between the Man Utd centre-backs and Townsend picks him out. He gets his shot away and forces De Gea into the save.
Second half: Greenwood is on straight away for Man Utd. James has gone off. United get the match restarted.
After this match concludes we’ve got one more to bring you. Arsenal face West Ham in the final Premier League game of the day, kick off is at 8pm and we’ll bring you the team news when we have it.
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