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MOTD- Manchester United 0-1 Everton

By on December 4, 2013
Bryan Oviedo celebrates as he scores the winner to seal Everton's first win over Manchester United in 21 years

Bryan Oviedo celebrates as he scores the winner to seal Everton’s first win over Manchester United in 21 years

Everything seemed to be clicking into place for Manchester United.  Undefeated for twelve matches and at the top of Champions League Group A, right off the back of a 5-0 win over Bayer Leverkusen and 2-2 draw with Tottenham the Red Devils’ were slowly creeping themselves back of the Premier League, only for it to fall apart as Everton visited Old Trafford, which has now seem three losses so far this season.  Although it took a later winner for Everton to grab the three points, the loss may have cost United, who now sit in ninth place, any hopes of winning the title.

Yet United found joy in the opening minutes of the encounter, although David De Gea was forced into an acrobatic save after eight minutes to palm Kevin Mirallas’ swerving effort over the bar.  The Red Devils came close when Ryan Giggs flicked Rafael’s cross just wide of the far post just before Wayne Rooney found his low shot from edge of the box deflected onto the inside of the post by Sylvain Distin in the twenty-ninth minute. The pacey first half continued as De Gea awkwardly blocked Lukaku’s moving shot from eight yards with his knees after the forward lumbered in from the right.

The match held it’s paceyness as the second half began with Patrice Evra blasting a screaming twenty-five yard shot at Howard after Rafael’s cross was half-cleared lass than a minute into the second period. The home side squandered two more big chances in the seventy-first minute when Evra got ahead of his marker to blast a bullet header towards goal from a corner out on the left from Rooney’s corner. Howard somehow blocked it, and the rebound came back out to Danny Welbeck, who got slightly under his header towards the top corner that ended up bouncing away off the underside of the crossbar.

Yet it was Everton who were pushing forward in the last quarter-hour of the match, with Mirallas coming inches away from giving the visitors a dramatic late goal in the eighty-second minute when Antonio Valencia clumsily brought down Seamus Coleman twenty-yards out from goal. Martin Atkinson awarded the free-kick, which Mirallas curled onto the post having beaten De Gea.   However, Everton got their late winner just three minutes later when when Romelu Lukaku cut it across goal to the Bryan Oviedo from the right.  Ovidedo tapped it past the charging De Gea into the bottom corner, sealing The Toffes’ first win over United in over twenty-one years with the left-back’s two goal in three matches for The Toffes’.
Man of the Match: Bryan Oviedo

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