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Manchester United secured three very important Premier League factors on Sunday with a tough fought win in opposition to Fulham at Craven Cottage.
The sport wont reside lengthy within the reminiscence and took a deflected lengthy vary effort from Lisandro Martinez to interrupt the impasse within the latter levels of the second half.
Nevertheless, it was a much needed win for Amorim’s males and Martinez’s late strike was a high-quality private second for him in a recreation he has current historical past in.
United gained the reverse fixture by the identical rating line on the opening day of the season with Martinez popping out on prime in his private battle with Fulham powerhouse Adama Traore on the night time.
That win prompted the United man to take a swipe at Traore in his publish match interview, telling Sky Sports activities he “sent him (Traore) to the gym”.
The Fulham attacker responded on the time with a “don’t worry, we will meet again,” message through social media and the pair had been anticipated to collide on Sunday.
Collide they did with Martinez maybe fortunate to flee punishment for a relatively crude trying problem on the Spaniard after his introduction as a second half substitute.
The pair exchanged a push and a shove after the incident that occurred simply moments earlier than Martinez lashed dwelling the video games solely purpose.
Martinez loved an all spherical wonderful 90 minutes and positively proved himself a match for Traore as soon as extra regardless of the obvious power benefit the ahead possesses.
Regardless of the Martinez exhibiting, Traore wasn’t keen to to place a line below the non-public beef the pair are growing and posted a photograph of himself with Martinez on the ground after the weekend fixture.
Adama Traore deserves a without end fulham already pic.twitter.com/fpSN1IR28R
— Kevin (@kevintence) January 27, 2025
The publish included the caption “Powerful loss. We deserved extra, however we are going to hold working laborious and enhancing.”
Traore’s Instagram publish was clearly not misplaced on United star Amad Diallo who would have doubled his facet’s lead on the night time had it not been for a hairline VAR intervention in stoppage time.
The Ivorian posted a a GIF of Martinez winking in clear reference to his match winner and spat with the Fulham man.
https://t.co/sEkQEOo3QA pic.twitter.com/DO8srRIu9G
— Amad (@Amaddiallo_19) January 26, 2025
It’s evident spirits are excessive within the United dressing room and the staff will now look to construct on the notable victory in opposition to Marco Silva’s males which was their fifth win from six in 2025, together with the FA Cup shootout success in opposition to Arsenal.
Amorim’s males are again in motion on Thursday night time as they journey to Bucharest for the final league recreation of the Europa League, figuring out a draw will probably be sufficient to ensure them automated qualification to the spherical of 16.
Featured picture Clive Rose through Getty Pictures
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