Andre Onana Breaks Murphy's Law
The first 25 minutes against Southampton was familiar to United fans, a slow start and strings of mistakes that led to shots at goal, the Saints had some few chances in the first 25 minutes which they should have used to move ahead including a penatly that was so tamely taken by striker Cameron Archer it might be easily mistaked for a back pass to Andre Onana. Siezing the opportunity Andre Onana stood up for his team and became the inspiration United needed to get going again, 2 minutes after his penalty save United scored and added another, within 8 minutes, United sudddenly moved from almost been behind to two goals up. From the penalty save to the end of the game, the Saints did not manage to have another shot at Onana's post again with United shipping in 16 unanswered strikes at the other end. As far as United are involved Murphy's Law "In any field of endeavor anything that could go wrong will go wrong" seemed to be curse that haunted them frequently, loosing at the closing stages against Brighton and conceding three goals against arch-rivals Liverpool at home with all goals given away by a failing midfield. At the South Coast it seemed like the curse was back but Onana came to the rescue and from then on it was a different and perfect United perfomance.
Redemption For Casemiro, De Ligt And Rashford
Matthijs de Ligt and Marcus Rashford are among two of United's players going through a tough time, de Ligt made two mistakes leading to goals in the two internationals played by the Netherlands, though his team won the games, questions would have been ask of the United defender if he made similar mistakes againts Southampton but he ended up with the a goal line clearance, a goal to get his team going and a man of the match award. Rashford has been one of United's most loyal players coming through the academy and establishing himself in the first team, been one United's best attackers in the team the eyes and attention of fans have always been on him, 4 games into the season without a goal or assist pressure was mounting for manager Erik Ten Hag to drop him for Alejandro Garnacho, Rashford repaid his manager by finally scoring his first goal of the season. Casemiro's error against Liverpool will not be forgiven so easily but he still needs to be appreciated for United's third goal, a defence splitting pass from Casemiro allowed an unmarked Dalot entry into the Southampton penalty area with all the time in the world to pick out a teamate in the box, he did so expertly and Garnacho finally fired the third goal into the roof of the net.
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