Premier League: Garnacho stunner helps Man United to victory over Everton; Aston Villa beat Spurs to enter top four
Alejandro Garnacho scored one of the all-time great Premier League goals to set Manchester United on their way to a 3-0 victory over Everton at Goodison Park.
The 19-year-old Argentina international opened the scoring in sensational fashion after less than three minutes when he sent a gravity-defying bicycle kick into the top corner – a goal which drew immediate comparisons to Wayne Rooney’s famous strike in the Manchester derby 12 years ago.
Marcus Rashford and Anthony Martial both then added morale-boosting goals in the second half as Man United sealed their first Premier League win by more than a single goal all term.
However, not for the first time this season, the final scoreline did not tell the full story, with Everton squandering a string of presentable chances which could – and perhaps should – have seen them come away from the game with something.
The Toffees had almost three times as many shots as their visitors, but Man United scored with all three of their efforts on target to climb back up to sixth place with a fifth win from their last six league games.
Everton remain joint-bottom following their points deduction, five points from safety following Luton Town’s victory on Saturday.
Aston Villa came from behind in a pulsating encounter at Tottenham to claim a 2-1 win and hand Ange Postecoglou’s side their third successive defeat.
There were emotional scenes before kick-off as both sets of supporters paid tribute to former Spurs boss Terry Venables, whose death at the age of 80 was announced on Sunday.
Perhaps that roused the hosts, who started with a fiery intensity and should have scored two early goals through Destiny Udogie and Dejan Kulusevski.
Spurs eventually got the goal their play deserved when Giovani Lo Celso – starting his first Premier League game in more than two years – saw his powerful drive deflect off Diego Carlos and past the helpless Emiliano Martinez.
But errors started to creep into Spurs’ game, allowing Pau Torres to head in an equaliser in first-half stoppage time.
Heung-Min Son saw a hat-trick of goals disallowed as Spurs’ frustration built, before Ollie Watkins completed the turnaround to move Villa above Spurs and into fourth in the Premier League
