Easy win for Manchester United

Goals from Anthony Martial and Jesse Lingard ended United’s run of draws and propelled the club back into second place in the Premier League table

Team line-ups

Everton: Pickford, Holgate, Keane, Williams, Martina;  Davies, Schneiderlin; Vlasic, Rooney (McCarthy 62), Bolasie (Lennon 62); Niasse (Calvert-Lewin 82)

Subs not used: Robles, Jagielka, Sigurdsson, Kenny

Booked: Rooney, Holgate

United: De Gea; Lindelof, Jones, Rojo, Shaw; Herrera, Matic, Pogba; Mata (Tuanzebe 90+1), Martial (Rashford 77), Lingard (Blind 87).

Subs not used: Smalling, Romero, Mkhitaryan, Darmian

                           

Lingard and Paul Pogba celebrate

Mourinho continues the race for Guardiola. Today Manchester United was guest at Goodison Park, United ended draw way of 3 games and started New Year with win (0:2).

Both teams opened the contest in lively fashion with the play switching constantly from one end of the field to the other. United steadily began to enjoy more of the possession, but in front of goal there was very little to get the pulse racing until the latter stages of the first half when Ander Herrera, Paul Pogba and Lingard all chanced their luck with long-range shots.

The first half concluded with neither side having caused many uneasy moments for goalkeepers David De Gea and Jordan Pickford.

United went straight onto the offensive as the second half got under way. It was certainly a more encouraging spell from United and 12 minutes into the half the Reds got the reward when Pogba found Martial with a lovely pass and the Frenchman wasted no time in taking aim before finding the net with a precise finish.

In 81st min. excellent strike from Lingard proved to be the clincher and it meant United returned to winning ways and kicked off 2018 in the best possible fashion.

JOSE: IT WAS A FRESH PERFORMANCE

The boss was pleased with the players in what he felt was a deserved win. He said: "I kept saying that our draws were not bad performances. Our draws had situations which made it more difficult for us and we made mistakes ourselves, especially in the matches against Leicester and Burnley. But the players - their attitude, commitment, pride, effort, everything - was top class and on top of it we played very well. It didn't look a performance of tired boys. It was a fresh performance."

This was really easy match for United and I don`t what to say more or new. Everyone expected and that`s happend. Mourinho plays his game, well organised in defence, concrete and calm in attack. They are very strong but of course Mourinho just talking about transfers and new players, obviously, this season Guardiola is TOO good for Premier league and Jose is probably really nervous about that.

Jose Mourinho

Everton must to find way to win in some other matches, with much better perfomance. 

Sam Allardyce has already confirmed that Everton will be actively looking a new striker in the January transfer window.

Sam Allardyce

Everton officials were in Turkey on Friday night in an attempt to finalise a deal to sign Besiktas striker Cenk Tosun, Sky sources understand.