Manchester United beat Everton 3-0 as Garnacho scores Puskas candidate

Alejandro Garnacho's Puskas Award hopeful goal was the highlight of Manchester United's 3-0 win over Everton at Goodison Park on Sunday.

Everton, fresh from their 10-point deduction for breaching the Premier League's profitability and sustainability rules, was inspired early at a lively Goodison and the better team over 45 minutes aside from Garnacho's spectacular goal — a surefire candidate for the Puskas Award as best goal of the year.

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Garnacho went airborne while going away from goal to score an outrageous overhead kick, and he was joined on the score sheet by a pair of second-half goals. Marcus Rashford converted an Anthony Martial-won penalty before Martial scored late off a Bruno Fernandes feed.

Manchester United moves back into sixth place on 24 points after its third-straight Premier League win, four points off the top four. Everton's four points are five off safety.

Ten Hag watches his Red Devils find themselves

Make no mistake, this was bad early for Manchester United. Part of that isn't a surprise given United's recent lack of aesthetics and the cauldron that's been Everton the last couple of weeks, but this 3-0 was far from a 90-minute show.

We say that because it's important to note the growth of United over the duration of this game, and because the scoresheet will show Garnacho's scintillating goal came in the fourth minute. But that 1-0 halftime lead deserves some light put on it, as Sean Dyche's aggrieved Everton had 1.01 xG and 10 shot attempts to United's 0.09 and two.

But the Red Devils got much better after the break, albeit not to their historical standards. Ten Hag's men produced a strong 1.97 xG in the second 45 minutes, generating three or four big chances while conceding very little to Everton aside from a lively Vitaliy Mykolenko.

Luke Shaw's return to the back four was welcome, and the back four of Shaw, Harry Maguire, Victor Lindelof, and Diogo Dalot was quite good. Kobbie Mainoo's first start went very well as the midfielder was all over the pitch, and the attackers all played a part in at least one goal.

Few will be saying United is back, but there are signs of life from a solid away win. Those all can dissipate if things go poorly versus Gala and Newcastle, which they sure can, but right now there are reasons for hope.

What’s next?

Man United's heads back to a beleaguered Champions League campaign that demands a win at Galatasaray on Tuesday. The Red Devils then go to Newcastle for a 10am ET Saturday kickoff.

Everton heads to Nottingham Forest at 12:30pm ET Saturday.

Everton vs Manchester United final score: 0-3

Goal: Garnacho (4'), Rashford (pen, 56'), Martial (75')

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Anthony Martial goal: Red Devils put it to bed

Facundo Pellistri wins a race down the right side, and cuts the ball inside to Bruno Fernandes.

The captain knows what to do from there, taking a beat and a touch before slipping Anthony Martial in on goal.

Martial dinks over the sliding Jordan Pickford for his seventh career goal against the Toffees.

PENALTY! Marcus Rashford doubles lead after VAR intervention

Anthony Martial is initially shown a yellow card for embellishment after an incident with Ashley Young just inside the box.

But hold on, VAR is having a look at it. There is contact between Martial's dragged foot and Young's dangled leg, and a pitch side monitor has referee John Brooks taking the yellow away and pointing to the spot.

Marcus Rashford goes to the spot. It's 2-0.

Everton vs Manchester United halftime analysis: 0-1

Erik ten Hag, watching from the stands, will be grateful that people will spend so much time talking about Alejandro Garnacho's amazing goal but his team literally did nothing else but defend.

Kobbie Mainoo has been very good on debut, making a few interventions of his own, but United is getting cooked otherwise.

Everton has 1.01 xG to United's 0.09. And while the Red Devils have 54% of the ball, they've conceded 10 shots while taking only two. Four of those Everton shots have been on target as part of Andre Onana's four saves.

The bench is unspectacular, too, given injuries to Mason Mount, Christian Eriksen, and Casemiro plus the ongoing punishment of Jadon Sancho. Could Facundo Pellistri, Donny van de Beek, or Hannibal Mejbri bring life to a wayward Red Devils attack?

32nd minute: Toffees denied

James Tarkowski's long ball ends with a Dominic Calvert-Lewin crafty poke toward goal.

Andre Onana gets low to deny it, then stands tall to stop Dwight McNeil's close-range snatch at rebound.

The danger's not over, as Kobbie Mainoo has to slide to clear a third shot off the line.

Moments later, Abdoulaye Doucoure misses just wide with a point-blank shot off a McNeil cross from the left.

Still 1-0 on the Garnacho strike.

Alejandro Garnacho wonder goal (video) !!

We have an unequivocal goal of the season from Alejandro Garnacho.

Diogo Dalot sends a cross from the right and it's over everyone except, it turns out, Garnacho.

The youngster launches into the air, just inside the 18 mind you, and fires an overhead kick over Jordan Pickford and into the back post a good 25-30 yards away.

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Focus on Everton, team news

The Toffees are reeling from the hefty punishment handed to them by an independent commission and the club say an appeal is on the way. Sean Dyche has expressed his surprise at the severity of the punishment and everyone connected with Everton seem to still be in a state of shock. But until an appeal is heard, Dyche's side can only focus on one thing: winning games to drag themselves back up the table. In theory, Everton should still comfortably stay up in the Premier League. Given what we've seen from them this season, they're a dangerous side on the counter and are robust and difficult to break down. Jack Harrison, Dwight McNeil and Abdoulaye Doucoure supporting Dominic Calvert-Lewin has worked really well and Everton now have a cutting edge to their play. In injury news, Dele Alli and Andre Gomes remain out but Amadou Onana and Seamus Coleman are working their way back to full fitness.

Focus on Manchester United, team news

Of course, there's always a lot of noise off the pitch about United and with the ongoing talk of investment from Sir Jim Ratcliffe and the likes of CEO Richard Arnold leaving their position in recent weeks, there is a lot of change happening. On the pitch, Erik ten Hag's side have scrapped their way back up the table with four wins from five but it hasn't been pretty. At all. Still, their injury situation has been severe with Mason Mount now joining Lisandro Martinez, Casemiro, Tyrell Malacia and Christian Eriksen on the sidelines. There are also doubts over Rasmus Hojlund, Aaron Wan-Bissaka and Jonny Evans but Andre Onana has shaken off a knock and will be available and Luke Shaw is back and will be in the squad. Jadon Sancho remains away from the first team and Amad Diallo is out with a long-term issue. All of that adds up to a tough situation for ETH with United having a huge Champions League game away at Galatasaray next week to focus heavily on too. He can't afford to prioritize that trip to Istanbul and United will look to sit in and soak up pressure before trying to use Marcus Rashford and Bruno Fernandes on the counter at Goodison.