Edinson Cavani has now scored as many Premier League goals for Man Utd as Diego Forlán (10) in 37 fewer appearances.
An INCREDIBLE finish.
Edinson Cavani has now scored as many Premier League goals for Man Utd as Diego Forlán (10) in 37 fewer appearances.
An INCREDIBLE finish.
10 - Edinson Cavani is only the third Man Utd player to reach 10+ goals in a single Premier League season while aged 33 or over at the start of that campaign, after Teddy Sheringham in 2000-01 and Zlatan Ibrahimovic in 2016-17.
Man Utd are the first team to have three players with 10+ Premier League goals this season:
Bruno Fernandes
Marcus Rashford
Edinson Cavani
AND WHAT A GOAL IT WAS.
David de Gea has provided an assist in a Premier League game for the first time in his career.
Bruno didn’t get a touch.
16th May: Alisson scores his first Premier League goal
18th May: David De Gea provides his first Premier League assist
These modern day goalkeepers want to do everything.
David De Gea is the first Man Utd goalkeeper to be credited with an assist since Edwin Van Der Sar against Aston Villa in Feb 2011.
4 - David De Gea is the fourth goalkeeper to assist a Premier League goal for Manchester United, after Peter Schmeichel (x3), Tim Howard and Edwin van der Sar.
Edinson Cavani’s 10 Premier League goals:
9 from inside the penalty area
[2 from inside the six yard box]
1 from outside the box
6 with his head
3 with his right
1 with his left
A rare strike from distance.
Man City XI: Ederson, João Cancelo, Stones, Rúben Dias, Zinchenko, Bernardo Silva, Rodrigo, Gündogan(c), Mahrez, Torres, Foden
Brighton XI: Sánchez, White, Webster, Burn, Groß(c), Alzate, Bissouma, Moder, Jahanbakhsh, Welbeck, Mac Allister
Gundogan gives Man City the lead in the 2nd minute
Cavani on May 10th: “It is one of the things that I have given huge amounts of thought to, the fact that I can play in front of a packed house at Old Trafford. It is, to be honest, a dream and something marvellous when it actually comes true."
He gave them a treat
İlkay Gündoğan has scored more non-penalty goals than any other midfielder in the Premier League this season (12).
Only Bruno Fernandes (18) has more than his 13 in total.
İlkay Gündoğan has scored more non-penalty goals than any other midfielder in the Premier League this season (12).
Only Bruno Fernandes (18) has more than his 13 in total.
3 - Man City are only the third side in Premier League history to both score a goal and have a men sent off in the opening 10 minutes of a match in the competition, after Blackburn v Leeds in February 1995 and Norwich v Portsmouth in January 2005. Eventful.