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Manchester United on Tuesday equalled the Premier League’s record by crushing a hapless Southampton 9-0 at Old Trafford. They had seven different goal-scorers during a contest that spelled disaster for the Saints from the word go as they lost a debutant to red-card as early as the second minute after the kick-off.
The win has moved Ole Gunnar Solskjaer’s men on equal terms on points with Premier League leaders and bitter rivals Manchester City who though have two spare games to reopen the gap. With their nine goals, United have now scored the most goals – 46 – this season in the PL followed by Liverpool (43) while Man City and Leicester City are joint third with 37 goals each so far.
The victory spawned hilarious memes on Twitter.
10 years ago today I retired ! What a tribute that is from @awbissaka 😂
— Gary Neville (@GNev2) February 2, 2021
*Manchester united are 9 goals ahead*
Southampton players: pic.twitter.com/P3Zxu7868V
— Gentle Boy🎴 (@chocolekan) February 2, 2021
Chelsea fans looking at ManchesterUnited fans celebrating their solid nine goals win over Southampton pic.twitter.com/8f4YglM9m8
— SOG (@_seunoyeniyi) February 2, 2021
Incredible Shaw pic.twitter.com/a6SAbJBcU4
— koojo (@zikaraho1) February 2, 2021
Me dancing to Qounfused’s song titled Manchester United pic.twitter.com/brqXaS6p3i
— 💯 bRiAn AnD 100 OtHErs 💯 (@ItsBrianG_) February 2, 2021
the only squad that could stop @ManUtd today #MUNSOU pic.twitter.com/o4oGQxeHDo
— A_boki☃️ (@kaitantahi) February 2, 2021
#MUFC admin trying to fit all those goals into less than 3 minutes pic.twitter.com/iyWncK6uAy
— ghost (@talk_and_do) February 3, 2021
Southampton tackle scott in the 2nd minute:
Manchester United; pic.twitter.com/uEVZo50sQD
— Móñd_mrh 🙃💊 (@mond_mrh) February 2, 2021
25-10-2019: Southampton 0-9 Leicester.
02-02-2021: Manchester United 9-0 Southampton.#MUFC @ManUtd pic.twitter.com/xMdNh7NZln— Rahul Madavi (@Chubbyrahul1) February 3, 2021
Good morning Manchester United fans. pic.twitter.com/oSvffQfxeP
— Kwambi Or Nothing™️|🇳🇦 (@Iam_Chipe) February 2, 2021
This is the second successive season that Southampton have been at the receiving end of a 9-0 humiliation after having earlier lost to Leicester City during the 2019-20 season as well. Their manager Ralph Hasenhuttl said the latest defeat through hurts more.
“We lost in a horrible way, and 90 minutes can be long in the Premier League. We couldn’t help them from outside. In the end, it’s a little bit of a different situation [to the 9-0 defeat by Leicester] because we are in a position in the table where we haven’t been for a long time,” Hasenhuttl said after the match.
“You don’t need this result to know what we need to do better. It’s not that it hurts less [than the last 9-0], the opposite, it hurts even more when you get this result again, but the team is a different one now. The team is a different one now, that’s the reason we’ve played a good season so far. Let’s see how the season ends, it will end better than the last I think. It hurts, but I can’t change it any more. It happened. The only way for us to go on is to show that we are a better team that we showed today,” he added.
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