SCORE: 2nd Half

MANCHESTER UNITED (Delaney OG, Darmian) 2-0 CRYSTAL PALACE

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Barclays Premier League Tie between Manchester United and Crystal Palace

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Date: April 20th, 2016

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Kick off BST: 20:00

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Venue: Old Trafford, Manchester

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Starting XI's:

Manchester United F.C.	Crystal Palace F.C
De Gea	Speroni
Valencia	Kelly
Blind	Mariappa
Smalling	Delaney
Darmian	Souare
Lingard	Jedinak
Schneiderlin	Cabaye
Rooney	Zaha
Mata	Lee
Rashford	Sako
Martial	Adebayor

Man Utd F.C. SUBS: Romero, Fosu-Mensah, Rojo, Young, Fellaini, Herrera, Memphis

Crystal Palace F.C. SUBS: McCarthy, Dreher, McArthur, Mutch, Puncheon, Campbell, Wickham

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Team news:

• Not sure what our formation is with Schneiderlin being our only true central midfielder.

• Martial and Darmian return to the starting XI

• Very attacking lineup. Rooney starts his second game in a row.

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UPDATES:

FIRST HALF UPDATES:

0' KICK OFF

0' United kick off! We attack the East End in red, while Palace are in all white.

4' MANCHESTER UNITED GOAL CRYSTAL PALACE SCORE AN OWN GOAL! DARIEN BURSTS DOWN THE LEFT AND WHIPS IN A LOW CROSS THAT DELAY TOE-POKES PAST SPERONI AT THE NEAR POST!

10' United on top of this game and have had a few shots from distance, with one from Mata forcing Speroni into a save.

20' Still all United with Valencia, Martial, Rashford, and Lingard all making darting runs into the box. For some reason none of them are fucking shooting though.

22' Martial finally goes for goal after cutting onto his right and he forces Speroni into a good save.

32' Martial has been causing Palace trouble down the left and I don't think they've had a shot at goal yet. They are very quick on the counter though and we should look out for it.

38' This has probably been the best attacking display we've put on all season. A lot of shots on goal but most of them have been straight at Speroni so we need to be a bit more clinical.

39' Martial bursts into the box and forces a good save to Speroni's left from a very powerful shot. We should be more than 1-0 up.

42' CRYSTAL PALACE YELLOW CARD Souare dives in two-footed on Mata and should be off! The ref takes a lenient view though and it's only a yellow. Very lucky for Palace.

45' HALF TIME

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45' SECOND HALF UPDATES

45' The second half kicks off and United are back to attacking.

53' United have been pushing forward a lot with Palace's only escape clearing long and hoping for one of their players to run onto the ball with pace. Unite corners haven't come to much either.

54' The ball falls to Mata in the box and he strikes hard at Speroni's near post but it's saved again!

55' MANCHESTER UNITED GOAL DARMIAN SCORES A SCREAMER! THE BALL FALLS TO HIM ON THE EDGE OF THE BOX FROM A CORNER AND HE TAKES A TOUCH BEFORE ABSOLUTELY LEATHERING THE BALL WITH HIS LEFT FOOT OFF THE INSIDE OF THE POST INTO THE BACK OF THE NET!

60' CRYSTAL PALACE SUBSTITUTION Mutch ON || Lee OFF

61' MANCHESTER UNITED YELLOW CARD Darmian trips up Zaha from behind for the yellow but it follows an absolutely disgraceful showing from Lingard at the other end. After Rashford drops half the Palace defence, he sets Lingard up for a tap in but he smashes it straight at Speroni. Honestly Lingard is one of the worst finishers we've had in a while.

63' MANCHESTER UNITED SUBSTITUTION Memphis ON || Rashford OFF

63' I'd have taken Lingard off, but that change has moved Memphis out to the left and Martial up top.

65' CRYSTAL PALACE SUBSTITUTION McArthur ON || Cabaye OFF

71' MANCHESTER UNITED SUBSTITUTION Herrera ON || Lingard OFF

75' CRYSTAL PALACE SUBSTITUTION Wickham ON || Adebayor OFF

77' MANCHESTER UNITED SUBSTITUTION Fellaini ON || Rooney OFF

85' United still pushing for a third but this game seems to have just calmed down and will run its course.\

90' THREE MINUTES ADDED

90+1' Not only have we scored more than one, and had multiple shots on target, we've also won 71-29 in possession in the second half. PHILOSOPHY!

90+3' FULL TIME