BURNLEY 0, MANCHESTER UNITED 1 Anthony Martial scored the solitary goal in this game early in the second half at Turf Moor as Manchester United reduced City’s lead at the Premier League summit to nine points against a battling Burnley side. At some point during this month Alexis Sanchez will arrive at Old Trafford when […]
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Manchester City’s FA Cup fortunes turn on controversial free kick against Burnley
MAN CITY 4, BURNLEY 1
Manchester City’s fortunes in their Emirates FA Cup, third-round win against Burnley turned on a controversial free kick.
City were 1-0 behind and had laboured for almost an hour before they equalised with a questionable goal.
If your allegiances were with City it was a stroke of genius, but for the Clarets it was anything but that.
Burnley were still lining up when Ilkay Gundogan took a quick kick and released Sergio Aguero who raced clear to score.
And while the Clarets were still reeling from that body blow, Aguero quickly added a second goal, his 18th of the season and a phenomenal 16 in 16 FA Cup ties for City.
Super-sub Jesse Lingard’s injury-time equaliser prevents first Burnley win at Old Trafford since 1962
MAN UNITED 2, BURNLEY 2
Misfiring Manchester United lost further ground in the Premier League title race after being held at home by Burnley.
But it would have been worse but for super-sub Jesse Lingard who scored twice as the Reds snatched a point having been 2-0 down at half time.
Lingard struck his third brace of the campaign, the equaliser netted in stoppage time as United staved off a first home Boxing Day defeat in 39 years.
And it left the Clarets crestfallen as they came agonisingly close to winning at Old Trafford for the first time since 1962.
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