On Sunday, he showed record-breaking goals in both England and Italy. Scott McTominay scored two goals in no time as Manchester United overtook Leeds, while Milan showed how to score from the kick-off.
United midfielder Scott McTominay is definitely not your regular goalscorer. But now he can call himself the fastest goalscorer in the Premier League with two goals.
After just over a minute of playing in the derby against Leeds, the shots hit a low-profile shot in the ankle from about 20 meters. Already in the third minute, Anthony Martial found Maktominay crossed, and the shots did not make any mistakes.
According to Opta Statistics Service McTominay is the fastest goalscorer in Premier League history.
– It was amazing from the first minute, Ole Gunnar Solskjaer told Sky Sports.
Leeds had nothing to say at the rival meeting. Bruno Fernandez made it 3-0 in the 20th minute, and Swedish Victor Lindelof scored the four shortly after a quarter of an hour. Fernandez became the top scorer with two goals thanks to a penalty kick in the second half – Manchester United eventually won 6-2.
We had to get victory by running like them, that was a challenge. It would have been 12-4! Solskjaer thought it was such a match.
And thus Man United occupies third place in the league table, four points behind leaders Liverpool. In addition, the Manchester team played one game less than the other teams at the top.
A busy week for Tottenham
Before this week, Tottenham led the league with Liverpool. Over the past week, the team had to face two major competitors – as a result, the team lost twice.
On Wednesday, they were on course to take out a cross from Liverpool, who won after Roberto Firmino’s late decision 2-1. Today, Spurs were pale at home in front of Leicester.
It took until the last moments of the first half before the match goal was broken zero. Tottenham defender Serge Aurier Wesley Fofana pushed hard into the penalty area and the penalty kick was real. He managed to guide Jimmy Vardy safely, with a powerful shot towards the middle of the goal.
Early in the second half, James Madison conceded after barely offside. The guests’ next goal came instead after less than an hour of play. Vardy himself got a somewhat harmless nod at one of the posters, but the ball was directed into the goal by Tottenham defender Toby the Alderworld.
We came here with the match plan we literally followed. Fardi told Sky Sports he had led us on the right path to get three points, which we deserve.
A record-breaking goal by Milan
In the Italian league, Milan had a great season in the fall and are one point ahead of their rivals Inter in the league.
In recent matches, they also had to dispense with injured goal King Zlatan Ibrahimovic. But despite the Swede’s absence, the striker appears to be working in Milan’s favor.
In Sunday’s away match against Sassuolo, the league leaders were ahead from the start. Hakan Kalhanoglu got the ball at first, quickly stepped forward and found Rafael Liao, who scored the opening goal after just six seconds.
This is According to Opta Fastest goal in Serie A ever, two seconds faster than former record holder Pablo Buggy, who scored for Piacenza after eight seconds of playing 19 years ago.
Belgian Alexis Sailemakers scored 2-0 later in the same half, and Milan won in the end 2-1.
consequences:
Premier League:
Brighton-Sheffield United 1–1 (0-0)
63 ‘Jayden Bogle 0-1
87 ‘Danny Welbeck 1–1
Tottenham-Leicester 0-2 (0-1)
45 ‘Jimmy Vardy 0-1
59 ‘Goal 0-2
Manchester United – Leeds 6-2 (4-1)
2 ‘Scott McTominay 1-0
3 ‘Maktominay 2-0
20 ‘Bruno Fernandez 3-0
37 ‘Victor Lindelof 4-0
41 ‘Liam Cooper 4-1
66 ‘Daniel James 5-1
70 ‘Fernandes 6-1
73 ‘Stuart Dallas 6-2
West Bromwich 1 Aston Villa 0-3
5 ‘Anwar El Ghazi 0-1
84 ‘Bertrand Traore, 0-2
88 ‘Anwar El Ghazi 0–3
League:
Turin – Bologna 1-1
Benevento – Genoa 2-0
Benevento: Birbarim Hetimage 90 minutes
Cagliari – Udinese 1–1
Inter – Spezia 1-2
Sassuolo – Milan 1–2
Atalanta – Roma 4-1
Lazio 2-0 Napoli
League:
Celta Vigo 2-0 Alaves
Granada – Betis 2-0,
Cadiz – Getafe 0–2
Eibar – Real Madrid 1–3
Bundesliga:
Freiburg-Hertha BSC 4-1
Wolfsburg – Stuttgart 1-0
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