Yeovil Town 0-four Manchester United

Alexis Sanchez performed a hand in two aims as his Manchester United debut led to a chuffed four-0 FA Cup fourth-round victory at League Two strugglers Yeovil Town.

Chile ahead Sanchez, who joined United from Arsenal in a swap deal for Armenia’s Henrikh Mkhitaryan on Monday, began broad on the left at a packed Huish Park.

The 29-12 months-dilapidated became as soon as recurrently alive to for United and his passes stumbled on Marcus Rashford and Ander Herrera for his or her aims both aspect of half of-time, earlier than he became as soon as substituted on Seventy two minutes.

The Somerset aspect had began brightly as Jordan Green’s early effort became as soon as saved by Sergio Romero – who came in as without a doubt one of 10 United adjustments – nonetheless the bottom-ranked aspect left on this season’s FA Cup infrequently ever seemed at risk of get without a doubt some of the competitions finest ever shocks.

Jesse Lingard slotted in a third earlier than Romelu Lukaku volleyed a fourth in stoppage time for the company, for whom victory came on supervisor Jose Mourinho’s fifty fifth birthday and in his a centesimal match to blame of the Premier League aspect.

The Portuguese – who signed a brand recent contract to 2020 with the Musty Trafford club on Thursday – has now won sixty two of his first 100 video games.

Sanchez straight into the aspect

Former Barcelona ahead Sanchez, who scored Eighty aims in all competitions for Arsenal in a three-and-a-half of-12 months spell, became the first Chilean to play in a competitive first-personnel match for United.

Starting out broad, he gave the ball away over and over in the first half of nonetheless became as soon as on the replacement hand active and showed heaps of assured touches, slicing interior frequently.

He became as soon as on the receiving discontinuance of a truly heavy model out from Yeovil left-aid Nathan Smith, earlier than his curling effort from the resulting free-kick became as soon as held by Glovers keeper Artur Krysiak.

His straightforward pass stumbled on Rashford for United’s opener, as the younger England striker dribbled by means of the Yeovil box and lost the ball temporarily earlier than slotting house after the Glovers failed to decided their lines.

After the wreck, Sanchez became as soon as alive to 1 more time, sliding a ball to Herrera to suit house the 2nd and tag his A hundred and fiftieth appearance for the club fashioned.

For Yeovil, who knocked out League One Bradford Metropolis in the 1/three round, the defeat came with the decided of £a hundred and forty four,000 of television broadcast income, as they performed in the fourth round for finest the 1/three time since 1949.

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United, who admire now not failed to establish on the very least the quarter-finals since 2014’s shock 1/three-round loss to Swansea Metropolis below supervisor David Moyes, had won 2-0 at Huish Park in the 1/three round upright three years in the past.

The FA Cup could presumably presumably show cloak to be United’s simplest opportunity to pick out out a trophy this season, having been knocked out of the Carabao Cup at Bristol Metropolis in December, especially with them trailing Premier League leaders Manchester Metropolis by 12 aspects.

Nonetheless, Mourinho became as soon as content to set sweeping adjustments to his starting up aspect.

The company began comparatively sluggishly, and stand-in keeper Romero became as soon as required to set the biggest early place to deliver Yeovil’s Green from stop vary.

However Mourinho’s males controlled many of the the rest of the sport and Yeovil – who remain yet to rating against United after four meetings – will now return to specializing in their assert to live away from relegation to the Nationwide League.

Darren Manner’s spirited aspect sit upright two aspects above the relegation zone, Twenty first in League Two.

For the Checkatrade Trophy quarter-finalists, defeat became as soon as their tenth consecutive loss in FA Cup meetings with prime-flight sides, having now failed to scored in eight of those.

Man of the match – Alexis Sanchez

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• Manchester United admire improved from Thirteen of their closing 14 ties in the FA Cup fourth round, with their finest defeat on this flee coming aid in 2012 (1-2 v Liverpool).
• This became as soon as Jose Mourinho’s a centesimal sport to blame of Manchester United – he has won sixty two% of his video games since taking on firstly up of closing season (P100 W62 D23 L15).
• The Crimson Devils admire now won every of their closing 5 video games; their longest flee of victories in all competitions since successful six in a row in September 2017.
• Marcus Rashford is the fourth assorted Manchester United participant to rating 10 or more aims in all competitions in 2017-18 (with Lukaku, Lingard and Anthony Martial) – Manchester Metropolis are the real Premier League personnel with as many.
• Zlatan Ibrahimovic (29) is the real Manchester United participant who has scored more aims for the club below Jose Mourinho than Marcus Rashford (21).
• Alexis Sanchez has been at as soon as concerned about 15 aims in 15 appearances in the FA Cup (eight aims and 7 assists).
• Jesse Lingard has scored 12 aims for the Crimson Devils in all competitions this time period; one bigger than he did in the earlier two seasons blended (eleven).
• This became as soon as the sixth time Jose Mourinho has taken price of a sport on his birthday, while he is won 5 of those six video games, losing the assorted.
• Yeovil admire lost every of their closing 10 FA Cup video games against prime-flight sides, failing to rating on eight of those times.

What’s subsequent

Yeovil face Grimsby on Tuesday while Manchester United return to Premier League circulation against Tottenham on Wednesday.