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.