London (AFP)
Manchester United resumed Tuesday their 5th place provisionally ceded to Wolverhampton on Saturday, thanks to their easy success in Brighton (3-0) for the 32nd day of the Premier League.
The Red Devils are also temporarily approaching 2 points from Chelsea (4th) and qualifying places for the Champions League, even if the Blues move Wednesday to West Ham, a poorly classified (17th).
Brighton retains its 15th place and 5 points ahead of the red zone, but the weight of the succession of matches is already felt on the Seagulls, who had drawn with Leicester (0-0) after beating Arsenal ( 2-1) when the championship resumes.
We must also recognize that there is not much to face the Red Devils at the moment.
They who remained on 8 wins and 3 draws before the break added 3 wins and a draw since the resumption on June 19.
In the south of England, Ole Gunnar Solskjaer's men took charge quickly.
From the 12th minute, Paul Pogba served Bruno Fernandes at 20 meters and the Portuguese striker found the left post of Mathew Ryan.
The same sequence between the two circles, whose complicity increases over the minutes, was repeated just before half an hour of play, resulting in the second goal of Manchester (2-0, 29).
In the meantime, it was Mason Greenwood who had illustrated himself with a double leg pass, external hook and chained strike between the legs of his defender - one of his trainer's favorite movements when he martyred the English and European defenses - to open the score (1-0, 19th).
Fernandes, taking advantage of good calls from Anthony Martial and Marcus Rashford, definitively removed all suspense of a beautiful volley on a Greenwood offering, five minutes after the break, which also allowed the Red Devils to run for almost forty minutes after that (3-0, 50th). Beautiful work.
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