Saturday 14th August 2021 – PREMIER LEAGUE
Manchester United 5 Leeds United 1 1-0 HT
Bruno Fernandes (30’minutes, 54’minutes, 60’minutes), – Ayling (49’minutes)
Greenwood (52’minutes),
Fred (68’minutes)
Assists – Pogba (30’minutes, 52’minutes, 54’minutes, 68’minutes), Lindelöf (60’minutes) – Dallas (49’minutes)
Can you believe the season is back and not the way we would have wanted to start, though you could say a slight improvement as we lost this fixture 6-2 last season.
Bruno Fernandes scored an opening-day hat-trick as Manchester United swept Leeds aside with a devastating second-half display.
The Portugal midfielder opened the scoring on the half-hour at a packed Old Trafford, but Luke Ayling’s thunderous strike drew Leeds level early in the second half.
Mason Greenwood restored the hosts’ lead with a crisp finish less than two minutes later, before Fernandes’ low shot was ruled to have crossed the line by referee Paul Tierney after a check of goal-line technology.
The 26-year-old quickly completed his hat-trick with a thumping finish from Victor Lindelof’s pass, before Fred added United’s fourth goal in 14 minutes from Paul Pogba’s cross – the Frenchman’s fourth assist of the afternoon.
For a team whose league record at Old Trafford is poor – Leeds have not won here since 1981.
League position 20th after 1 match.
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