Marcus Rashford scored his fifth purpose in as many video games after creating two others to assist Manchester United beat Everton 3-1 and attain the fourth spherical of the FA Cup on Friday.
Rashford arrange Antony’s early opener and noticed a second-half cross become his personal internet by Conor Coady, scorer of Everton’s equaliser.
Then, in stoppage time, Rashford stored his scoring run going by sending Jordan Pickford the unsuitable approach from the penalty spot after Ben Godfrey fouled Alejandro Garnacho.
United was hardly ruthless, grateful to see a possible Dominic Calvert-Lewin equaliser dominated out for a decent offside name. But United did sufficient to make it seven straight wins in all competitions for the primary time since 2019 when Ole Gunnar Solskjaer was in caretaker cost.
For Everton, there was comfort in a greater efficiency after dropping to Brighton 4-1 midweek left it 18th within the Premier League, the strain firmly on supervisor Frank Lampard.
Erik ten Hag named a robust aspect for his first style of the FA Cup, however notably chosen Luke Shaw at middle again whereas Lisandro Martinez — with no begin since Argentina’s World Cup group recreation towards Mexico on November 26 — joined Harry Maguire and Victor Lindelof on the bench.
After the horror present of Tuesday night time, Lampard reverted to the 3-5-2 system used to frustrate Manchester City final weekend.
The 9,000 travelling Everton followers arrived in Manchester nonetheless fuming over the newest capitulation, the primary chant of “Sack the board” coming quarter-hour earlier than kickoff. Their temper didn’t enhance a lot.
