MANCHESTER UNITED CRYSTAL PALACE PALACE STRIKE IN
Rashford penalty miss & De Gea howler hand Hodgson’s
THE last time Crystal Palace won in these parts in the league was when the locals wanted rid of an unknighted Alex Ferguson.
‘ Ta-ra Fergie’ was the infamous banner unfurled in the Stretford End as United struggled under the Scot in his formative years.
The last time Marcus Rashford ( left) missed a penalty was probably back in his schooldays.
And sadly in these unforgiving days, the racist tweeters were at it again with the young England striker the target in the same week that Paul Pogba was a ■ Manchester United have won only one of their last nine matches across all competitions (D3 L5), scoring victim of the cowardly keyboard warriors. Said United boss Ole Gunnar Solskjaer: “It needs to stop. I am lost for words.
“We have all these campaigns and it’s still happening. It’s crazy that we are still talking about this in 2019.”
But for Palace and their former England boss Roy Hodgson it was an unexpected lift- off to their season – and how they celebrated especially with the winning goal from Patrick van Aanholt arriving in ‘Fergie time’.
After discovering he had become the first Palace manager to defeat United in the Premier League, Hodgson (right) said: “When you have been around as just eight goals while conceding 16 in this stretch. ■ Crystal Palace’s Patrick van Aanholt became only long as I have there will always be nuggets but I will seriously remind myself of this one.”
Solskjaer was more concerned at the final whistle about having words with referee Paul Tierney, who he believed had denied his crestfallen side a blatant penalty and had failed to send off Palace defender Gary Cahill.
And yet all seemed well for United when they struck in the 88th minute. Daniel James, who had earlier been booked for diving again, curled a beauty past Vicente Guaita following neat and swift passing involving Rashford and Anthony Martial.
They then turned on the turbo boosters and seemingly were