A scoreboard showing 9-0 score in the 22nd round of EPL between Manchester United and Southampton. Manchester = EPA Yonhap News
England’s Professional Football Premier League (EPL) Manchester United (Man United) scored a 9-0 win over Southampton, where two men were sent off. Although Manchester United played two more games than the lead Manchester City (Man City), they tied for 44 points, igniting the lead competition.
Manchester United on the 3rd (Korean time) in Manchester’s Old Trafford, England, in the home game of the 22nd round of the 2020-21 EPL, 7 players scored and scored a 9-0 win. Two players were sent off from Southampton to give them a numerical advantage, but they proved their recent gains with a rare goal feast on the EPL stage. According to Opta, a website specializing in soccer statistics, the EPL wins more than 9 goals followed by Manchester United-Ipswichtown (Man United 9-0 win) and Leicester City-Southampton 2019 (Leicester City 9-0 win). Third.
Southampton started the game two minutes after the start of the match, with Alexander Jankewitz being sent off by smashing Scott McTomini in the leg. With an early numerical advantage, Manchester United opened the door with Aaron Wan-Bissaka’s final goal in the 18th minute of the first half, and 7 minutes later, Marcus Rashford added a goal to lead 2-0. In the 34th minute of the first half, Southampton’s Jan Bednarek, who tried to block Rashford’s cross, scored an own goal. In the 39th minute of the first half, Edinson Cavani’s goal was fired.
Even in the second half, which started with a 4-0 lead, Manchester United’s one-sided game unfolded. In the 24th minute of the second half, Marsial, who received a cross by Fernandes, scored an additional goal with a right-footed shot. Two minutes later, McTomini shook the net. Subsequently, the opponent was sent off, giving him a chance to take a penalty. In the 41st minute of the second half, Bednarek tackled Marsial from the penalty area and was sent off. Fernandes, who played the kicker, scored the penalty. Manchester United finished their 9-goal victory with Marsial in the 45th minute of the second half and Daniel James in the 3rd minute of extra time.
On the same day, 14th place Wolverhampton beat Arsenal 2-1, who had been sent off by two at home. Arsenal placed 10th (31 points) and Wolverhampton 14th (26 points). Arsenal took the lead with Nicola Pepe’s opening goal in the 32nd minute of the first half, but in the 5th minute of the first half, David Lewis was awarded a red card after committing a foul trying to stop William José in the penalty area. Wolverhampton got a penalty kick, and Huben Neves kicked it in to balance. In the 4th minute of the second half, Wolverhampton scored a long-range shot with João Motinue’s right-footed shot to the final goal of the reversal and won a precious victory that distanced himself from the bottom.
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