Manchester United were able to claim all three points against Southampton yesterday. They scored 3 goals and kept a clean sheet in an away fixture. Matthijs De Ligt, Marcus Rashford and Alejandro Garnacho scored the goals for United. Andre Onana played an important role to keep a clean sheet by saving a penalty.
United fans were happy with their team’s redemption in Premier League. It was not long ago when they had to face an embarassing defeat against Liverpool. They got a chance to vote their man of the match against Southampton and have their say.
United fans elect De Ligt as the man of the match against Southampton
United fans were able to cast their vote on the official Manchester United website. It was absolutely one sided as 48% people backed De Ligt. Amad Diallo, Rashford and Onana share the second position where they all received 11% votes each.
Matthijs De Ligt had a rough week before the game against Southampton. He made a horrible error while playing for Netherlands against Germany. This led to German goal and De Ligt was substituted at half time.
But Ten Hag placed his trust in the defender and started him. De Ligt was able to redeem himself and open the scoring for United. He was also very efficient in defence alongside Lisandro Martinez.
De Ligt completed 59 passes with 92% accuracy. He had 2 shots on target with 100% accuracy. In addition, the Dutch defender commited 1 tackle, 1 block, 1 interception, 1 recovery and 6 clearances.
De Ligt was dribbled passed only 1 time throughout the game. He even cleared the ball off the line 1 time. He won 3 out of 5 ground duels and 100% of the aerial duels. Lastly, De Ligt was very clean and only commited 1 foul.
Later, De Ligt was taken off in the 87th minute. There was a sense of worry amongst the United fans about a possible injury to De Ligt. However, the player has spoken positively about the issue.
De Ligt said that he is fine and it was just a cramp. He added that it maybe because this was the first time he played three times in a row in last five months. Lastly, De Ligt said he wanted to play until the end but the coach thought it was better to take him off.
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