Premier League<\/a> going into the international break.<\/p>\nHere is how United’s players rated this afternoon:<\/p>\n
Senne Lammens<\/p>\n
An assured United debut from the deadline day signing. Confident coming for the ball and made a fine save from Granit Xhaka and one near the end. Will be hard to dislodge him. 8<\/p>\n
Leny Yoro<\/p>\n
Disciplined in his defending and deserving of his recall to the starting line-up after being benched for the previous two games . Brings better balance to United’s back three. 7<\/p>\n
Matthijs de Ligt<\/p>\n
Alert to danger throughout and never caught out of position defending his goal. Played a key role in United’s second goal, challenging for the flick-on that ultimately led to it. 7<\/p>\n
Luke Shaw<\/p>\n
Kept his place on the left side of United’s back three, but moved inside to a more central position at times after the break, giving United greater control on the ball. 7<\/p>\n
Amad<\/p>\n
A constant threat down the right side. Tormented Sunderland’s defence and unlucky not to score in the first-half when he cut inside and saw a goal-bound effort saved. 7<\/p>\n
Casemiro<\/p>\n
Back in the starting line-up following his one-match ban, he was disciplined in midfield, although he picked up an obligatory booking late on for a poor challenge. 7<\/p>\n
Bruno Fernandes<\/p>\n
Another ebullient performance from the United skipper, who was seemingly everywhere, covering so much ground. Had an exquisite chip tipped onto the bar by Robin Roefs. 7<\/p>\n
Diogo Dalot<\/p>\n
Kept his place following the Brentford debacle and it was from his long throw-in that Sesko was able to plunder United’s second goal. Impressive energy levels. 7<\/p>\n
Bryan Mbeumo<\/p>\n
Provided the assist for Mount’s opener and never gave the Sunderland defence any peace with his runs in behind and ability to pick up dangerous positions. 7<\/p>\n
Benjamin Sesko<\/p>\n
Scored for the second game running with a classic poacher’s goal from close-range in the first-half. United exploited his aerial threat throughout to win second balls. 7<\/p>\n
Mason Mount<\/p>\n
Restored to the starting line-up and justified his selection by setting United on their way to victory with a superbly-taken goal. Standing ovation when taken off. 8<\/p>\n
Subs:<\/p>\n
Dorgu (Dalot, 64)<\/p>\n
Solid at left wing-back. 6<\/p>\n
Cunha (Mount, 64)<\/p>\n
Lively attacking threat. 6<\/p>\n
Mainoo (Mbeumo, 76)<\/p>\n
Not enough time to impact the game. 6<\/p>\n
Ugarte (Casemiro, 85)<\/p>\n
A late arrival. N\/A<\/p>\n
Maguire (Yoro, 85)<\/p>\n
Helped see out the win. N\/A<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Manchester United beat Sunderland 2-0 in the Premier League at Old Trafford on Saturday. Here are how the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":179251,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,1441,50,3856,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-179250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-manchester-united-fc","tag-news","tag-player-ratings","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179250\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/179251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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Sesko made it 2-0<\/p>\n