Sunderland 0-3 Manchester United
But when you go down to ten against Jose Mourinho’s team, in the first half, you may as well go home.
Seb Larsson saw red for a follow through on Ander Herrera and Zlatan Ibrahimovic, Henrikh Mkhitaryan and Marcus Rashford made the Black Cats pay. Football betting pundits backed the Red Devils pre-match as they went after their seventh away win in nine, and Sunderland, ten points from safety, simply can’t buy a goal. And when the home side was depleted, the mobile betting markets buzzed with bets on the size of defeat.
Credit, then, to the Sunderland players who battled to the last and kept it respectable.
In fact the home side was well in the game in the opening exchanges and it was a little harsh on Sunderland when Ibrahimovic struck on the half hour to give United the lead. The big Swede picked up a ball on the edge of the box and fired low into the corner of Jordan Pickford’s net to silence the home fans.
Victor Anichebe thought he’d drawn Sunderland level on 40 when he controlled well to fire a close range shot which the United keeper, Sergio Romero, blocked brilliantly. Then, as Sunderland prepared to regroup at halftime, referee Craig Pawson made himself the most unpopular man in the ground, dismissing Larsson for his lunge on Herrera when a yellow card seemed more likely.
It only took a minute of the second half for Henrikh Mkhitaryan to make a difficult task nigh on impossible when he matched Zlatan’s effort to strike low to make it 2-0.
Jermain Defoe almost grabbed a consolation on the 87th minute but his, and Sunderland’s, goal drought goes on. And then on 89th, Marcus Rashford rubbed salt into the wound.
It was all too easy and poor David Moyes’ season just continues to get worse but for United, a top four place is back on.
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