United thrash Bournemouth to move into top four
MANCHESTER: Marcus Rashford believes these are “exciting times” for Manchester United after the team scored five goals in a Premier League match at Old Trafford for the first time since 2011 to thrash Bournemouth 5-2 and move into the top four on Saturday.
Rashford and Anthony Martial took their tallies for the season to 20, but they were upstaged by two more stunning strikes by teenager Mason Greenwood.
“It’s definitely an exciting time,” Rashford told BT Sport. “We are all in goalscoring form. It’s important to push on now.”
Victory takes Ole Gunnar Solskjaer’s men a point above Chelsea in fourth as they extended an unbeaten run from January to 16 games.
BUFFON SETS RECORD, RONALDO STRIKES Milan:gianluigi Buffon set a new Serie A appearances record on Saturday as Juventus beat Torino 4-1 in the Turin derby to move seven points clear at the top of the table.
The 42-year-old goalkeeper passed the previous record of 647 appearances he jointly held with AC Milan great Paolo Maldini as he started Saturday’s game.
Cristiano Ronaldo was among the scorers, becoming the first Juve player to score 25 Serie A goals in a season in 59 years.
VARDY NETS 100TH PREMIER LEAGUE GOAL LEICESTER:JAMIE Vardy netted his 100th Premier League goal as
Leicester City notched their first victory since the league resumed, beating Crystal Palace 3-0 on Saturday to keep up their drive for Champions League football next season.
Having missed some earlier chances, Vardy made no mistake when Harvey Barnes set him up for a tap-in in the 77th minute to notch a century goals in the Premier League, and he added a superb solo second in stoppage time to make it 3-0.
JOSE ‘DESTROYED’ BY SPURS’ LACK OF FIGHT LONDON: Jose Mourinho was “destroyed a little bit on the inside” by Tottenham’s lack of fight in their damaging 3-1 defeat at Sheffield United.
“I believed in the evolution of the team and I thought that by a desire point of view, they put more in than us. That’s something that disturbs me,” Mourinho said. “It’s something that destroys me a little bit on the inside because I think the last thing in football is when you have the feeling you could, you should do more.”
MORATA DOUBLE GIVES ATLETICO 3-0 VICTORY MADRID: Atletico Madrid stayed firmly on course to secure Champions League spot next season after two goals by Alvaro Morata and a late strike from Koke gave them a 3-0 home win over struggling Mallorca in La Liga.
The result left Atletico third on 62 points from 34 games, five ahead of fourth-placed Sevilla and eight in front of fifth-placed Villarreal who both have a game in hand.