As Manchester United defeated Brentford 1-0 on Wednesday, Marcus Rashford scored the winning goal to propel the Red Devils back into the top four of the Premier League.
Meanwhile, Newcastle prevailed 5-1 at West Ham to remain in third place. Callum Wilson and Joelinton each scored two times for the Jaybirds, who stay above Joined on objective contrast. The two sides currently have an important lead over Tottenham and a game close by on Prods in the race for a spot in next season’s Bosse’s Association.
After going three league games without a win and playing in cups, United had not won the Premier League since the middle of February. As a result, they dropped to fifth place. After a humiliating 4-0 defeat against the Bees in their previous meeting in August, Erik ten Hag’s team also had to settle a score with them.
In Sunday’s 2-0 defeat to Newcastle, the Dutch coach was harsh in his criticism of his players’ motivation and attitude, and he received the response he sought.
Rashford stated, “Hope we can build on that and get back to where we were a couple of weeks ago.” Everyone is aware that we won’t always play our best football, but we must maintain our standards.”
Rashford started in the middle when Ten Hag finally got tired of playing with Wout Weghorst. That decision paid off when the England international was in the right spot to side-foot home Marcel Sabitzer’s free kick for his 28th goal of the season.
To move up to ninth place in the standings, Brentford had only lost one of their previous 16 Premier League games.
Ivan Toney charged down David de Gea’s clearance and the ball flew inches wide, giving Thomas Frank’s team a chance to tie the game after the first hour when they had little offensive threat.
De Gea set things right when he spread himself to obstruct Kevin Schade with Brentford’s just other clear sights of the objective.
Ten Hag stated, “We want to play like a machine and not make mistakes.” Thankfully, they did not gain from our one mistake. “This is a huge win” Newcastle moves closer to returning to the Champions League With their fourth win in a row, Newcastle moved closer to the Champions League for the first time in twenty years.
Eddie Howe, the head coach of Newcastle, stated, “We were not at our very best today, but we were clinical.”
“It’s been some time since we’ve been that way. We want the team to perform at its highest level because we set such high standards for ourselves.
Wilson, who had been replaced by Alexander Isak in the starting lineup by Howe, scored the opening goal after just six minutes with a header.
Within 13 minutes, Joelinton’s coolly rounding Lukasz Fabianski before putting the ball into an empty net doubled the Magpies’ lead. The Brazilian latched onto a ball from Fabian Schar that had been played over the top.
West Ham briefly had hope when Kurt Zouma scored with a header just before the break.
However, Jacob Murphy dispossessed Nayef Aguerd inside his own box seconds after the start of the second half, and squared for Wilson to tap in.
Before Joelinton dealt the final blow, Fabianski cleared the ball into Isak’s path and gave him another West Ham gift, making it four.
As his team’s defense astonished David Moyes, it could be the last straw for the Scot, who faces becoming the 13th Premier League manager to be fired this season. The Hammers remain out of the relegation zone based solely on goal difference after the defeat.