{"id":404353,"date":"2018-02-25T16:20:06","date_gmt":"2018-02-25T16:20:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=404353"},"modified":"2018-02-26T05:52:00","modified_gmt":"2018-02-26T05:52:00","slug":"lingard-heads-in-winner-as-man-utd-defeat-chelsea-2-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2018\/02\/lingard-heads-in-winner-as-man-utd-defeat-chelsea-2-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Lingard heads in winner as Man Utd defeat Chelsea 2-1"},"content":{"rendered":"
Manchester United moved back into second place in the Premier League as substitute Jesse Lingard gave them victory over top-four rivals Chelsea at Old Trafford.<\/p>\n
The Red Devils had to come from behind after Willian started and finished a flowing move to give Chelsea the lead in the first half.<\/p>\n
United pulled level before the break, with striker Romelu Lukaku getting in front of Marcos Alonso inside the area to score against his former club for the first time.<\/p>\n
Lukaku then set up Lingard to head home with 15 minutes left, after which Chelsea’s Alvaro Morata had a goal disallowed for offside.<\/p>\n
Defeat leaves the Blues in fifth place after Tottenham beat Crystal Palace 1-0 earlier on Sunday.<\/p>\n
A run of just one win in their past four league matches, coupled with Spurs’ 10-game unbeaten streak, means they are out of the Champions League places with 10 games remaining.<\/p>\n
Chelsea came close to taking the lead at Old Trafford after just four minutes when Morata ran on to Alonso’s brilliant volleyed cross, but his shot hit the bar.<\/p>\n
Lukaku, facing the club he played for between 2011 and 2014, had a flying volley superbly saved by Thibaut Courtois.<\/p>\n
Lukaku came into the game having scored 12 goals in the Premier League so far this season, but with none – and only four shots on target – against the other teams in the top six.<\/p>\n
The Belgian,\u00a0signed for \u00a375m from Everton last July,\u00a0had never scored in either seven previous league appearances against Chelsea, or 10 for the Blues during a spell in which he enjoyed more success while on loan at West Brom and Everton.<\/p>\n
But the 24-year-old edged in front of Alonso to finish off a neat move involving Alexis Sanchez and Anthony Martial and end his dry spell against the top flight’s elite.<\/p>\n
Lukaku came close to a second when he met Sanchez’s superb ball with a flying left-footed volley, but Courtois denied his international team-mate by tipping the ball over.<\/p>\n
He swung the match decisively in United’s favour, though, when he slipped free on the right of the box and chipped in a cross that Lingard nodded home.<\/p>\n
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Source: BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Manchester United moved back into second place in the Premier League as substitute Jesse Lingard gave them victory over top-four rivals Chelsea at Old Trafford. The Red Devils had to come from behind after Willian started and finished a flowing move to give Chelsea the lead in the first half. United pulled level before the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":404354,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[851,104],"yoast_head":"\n