Players ratings and round-up as Manchester United thrash Crystal Palace 4-0 in Premier League

Sport360 staff 20:49 30/09/2017
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  • The Red Devils are top of the table.

    Marouane Fellaini’s first Manchester United brace helped Jose Mourinho’s men to another comprehensive victory, leaving Crystal Palace reeling from a seventh straight Premier League defeat without so much as a goal.

    Saturday’s Old Trafford encounter was a complete mismatch between two teams on opposing trajectories.

    Fellaini’s double was sandwiched between Juan Mata and Romelu Lukaku goals in a comprehensive 4-0 win that saw United equal their record tally of 19 points after seven Premier League matches as embattled Palace fell to another loss.

    TWEET OF THE MATCH

    Former Manchester United defender Phil Neville posted a picture of Lionel Messi’s face superimposed over Fellaini’s body.

    STAR MAN

    Marcus Rashford. Another eye-catching display from United’s teenage England star, in which he produced two fine assists. He comprehensively got the better of Joel Ward on the left before providing the cutback from which Mata opened the scoring, and delivered an excellent free-kick – as David Beckham watched on from the stands – that Fellaini headed in for his second goal.

    MANCHESTER, ENGLAND - SEPTEMBER 30: Marcus Rashford of Manchester United and Joel Ward of Crystal Palace compete for the ball during the Premier League match between Manchester United and Crystal Palace at Old Trafford on September 30, 2017 in Manchester, England. (Photo by Clive Brunskill/Getty Images)

    The young Englishman again stood out.

    VIEW FROM THE DUGOUT

    Quite simply, what a contrast. United boss Mourinho appeared annoyed once or twice at things he saw on the field, and had to dry his hair with a towel at one point, but this wet afternoon could hardly have gone much better for him as his unbeaten team ascended to the top of the table. Hodgson, meanwhile, was suitably gloomy-looking throughout. There was little really in this latest defeat for goalless, rock-bottom Palace – playing most of the contest with Bakary Sako as a makeshift striker, in the absence of the injured Christian Benteke – to suggest they have anything other than a long, hard battle for survival ahead of them. That’s nine goals conceded in their last two matches, with a clash with champions Chelsea up next.

    MANCHESTER, ENGLAND - SEPTEMBER 30: Jose Mourinho, Manager of Manchester United gives instruction during the Premier League match between Manchester United and Crystal Palace at Old Trafford on September 30, 2017 in Manchester, England. (Photo by Laurence Griffiths/Getty Images)

    Mourinho won the touchline battle.

    DATA POINT

    This match saw Palace equal Portsmouth’s Premier League record of seven straight losses from the start of 2009/10. United scored four times in a game for the sixth time in all competitions this season.

    RATINGS

    MANCHESTER UNITED

    David de Gea – 6
    Antonio Valencia – 6
    Phil Jones – 6
    Chris Smalling – 6
    Ashley Young – 7
    Nemanja Matic – 7
    Marouane Fellaini – 8
    Juan Mata – 7
    Henrikh Mkhitaryan – 6
    Marcus Rashford- 8
    Romelu Lukaku – 7
    Substitutes:
    Jesse Lingard (for Mkhitaryan, 66) – 6
    Anthony Martial (for Rashford, 72) – 7
    Ander Herrera (for Mata, 77) – 7

    CRYSTAL PALACE

    Wayne Hennessey – 6
    Joel Ward – 5
    Mamadou Sakho – 5
    Damien Delaney – 5
    Patrick van Aanholt – 5
    Luka Milivojevic – 5
    Yohan Cabaye – 5
    Andros Townsend – 5
    Jason Puncheon – 5
    Jeffrey Schlupp – 5
    Bakary Sako – 5
    Substitutes:
    James McArthur (for Schlupp, 68) – 5
    Jairo Riedewald (for Puncheon, 69) – 5
    Freddie Ladapo (for Sako, 74) – 5

    WHO’S UP NEXT?

    Liverpool v Manchester United (Premier League, October 14)
    Crystal Palace v Chelsea (Premier League, October 14)

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