It took just two minutes to prove the value of those saves as Maguire hammered home at the back post from Cavani's flick-on.įernandes should have completed the comeback when he fired too close to Musso.īut that cleared the way for Ronaldo to provide another fairytale ending as he rose highest to power home Luke Shaw's cross for his sixth goal in nine appearances since returning to the club where he first became a world star.1 RTÉ interview with Andrew McGinley pulled over wife’s family objections 2 Iman on life after David Bowie: ‘In the woods I could cry and release the grief’ 3 Miriam Lord: Blatherballs Bernard hits the jackpot with Lotto crusade 4 Róisín Ingle: I am choosing not to listen to the scaremongerers in charge 5 Contempt of court proceedings brought against Garda Commissioner 6 Our neighbour’s hedge doesn’t match the boundary shown on the deed map 7 Rose Hynes confirms calling Varadkar after hearing Shannon news 8 Primary school-aged children now have highest coronavirus incidence of any group 9 Lady Gaga: ‘When I got back from Italy, I threw out my cigarettes, threw out the booze’ 10 ‘The campervan broke my heart.’ Lockdown purchases we wish we’d never made 11 ‘I’ve met a man who lost his wife 10 months ago. Solskjaer unloaded his wealth of attacking options off the bench as Pogba, Sancho and Edinson Cavani were introduced for the final quarter.īut United's awful defending nearly gave them too much of a mountain to climb.ĭuvan Zapata spun Victor Lindelof with ease and forced David de Gea into a stunning save before the Spaniard parried Ruslan Malinovskyi's follow-up strike over.
Scott McTominay then fired against the post and Musso was forced to full stretch to turn a low Ronaldo shot to safety. Rashford found his range to halve the home side's deficit with a calm finish from Bruno Fernandes' pass eight minutes into the second half. Old Trafford was growing restless, but luckily for United they were up against a defence as suspect as their own.įred fired another huge chance wide before Rashford hit the bar with just Juan Musso to beat before the break. Maguire endured a torrid return from injury against his former club at the weekend and was outjumped by Demiral as the Turkish defender headed home from a corner. However, an extra body in midfield could not prevent United leaking chances as they have now kept one clean sheet in 20 games.Ītalanta played through the hosts with ease for the opening goal as Josip Ilicic fed Davide Zappacosta down the right and his low cross was turned home by Pasalic.
Solskjaer responded to Saturday's 4-2 defeat at Leicester by dropping Jadon Sancho and Paul Pogba. They are the luckiest men in the world because they are the ones that can play for Man Utd." "Don't disrespect the players," added Solskjaer when asked if the players were playing for him. Questions will continue to be asked of Solskjaer's ability to get the best out of such a richly talented squad.īut a much-needed win to move to the top of Group F eases the mounting pressure on the Norwegian. Ronaldo also scored a 96th-minute winner against Villarreal in United's previous Champions League game to mask an otherwise unconvincing performance. The difference was the quality of finishing was much better in the second half." "I thought in the first half we played some good stuff, created chances, we just couldn't take them. "We have a habit of doing this at this club," said Solskjaer, who famously completed a late comeback to win the Champions League as a player in 1999. However, United's attacking arsenal blew the Italians away after the break as Marcus Rashford and Harry Maguire drew them level before Ronaldo powered home a header nine minutes from time.