Manchester United 4-1 Newcastle United: Player Ratings

Modified Nov 19, 2017 06:49 GMT

Zlatan Pogba Man United Newcastle Player Ratings — *****

Newcastle United

Robert Elliot – 6/10

For both the headers, Elliot could do very little and it was similar for Pogba’s close-range finish. He was quick off his line on a number of occasions but it wasn’t enough to keep Newcastle from losing heavily.

DeAndre Yedlin – 8/10

The American showed tremendous speed down the right-hand side, before putting in a delicious cross for Gayle to give Newcastle a shock lead. Furthermore, the right-back dealt with Martial brilliantly for the most part, and was Newcastle’s best player all evening.

Ciaran Clark – 5/10

Clark looked to have started solidly clearing away lots of dangerous crosses at the near post and nullifying Lukaku up front. However, after the first goal went in, the floodgates opened, and he and his partner Lejuene could not deal with the opposition’s attack.

Florian Lejeune – 5/10

Newcastle fans will be delighted when Lascelles returns from injury to replace Lejuene at centre-back. His performance was not particularly bad, but it was always going to be a mismatch with him playing centre-back against a front three of Rashford, Lukaku and Martial.

Javi Manquillo – 5/10

Facing Rashford on his side, the Spaniard kept him out of the game for large periods and mainly forced him into short passes or wasteful long shots at goal in the first half. However, as he tired defensively, gaps appeared and the left-back began to find it very tough to cope with the United attack.

Matt Ritchie – 4/10

Ritchie tracked back well, but didn’t have the same impact Murphy did on the right-hand side, going forward. He was Newcastle’s first substitute, as he struggled to make an impact.

Isaac Hayden – 6/10

Hayden was booked for a rash tackle on Mata and looked to be walking a tightrope, but he dusted himself off and put in a strong shift. The going was arguably just too tough against a strong United midfield partnership.

Jonjo Shelvey – 7/10

Shelvey showed off his excellent passing range as he held his own against Pogba and Matic in the United midfield. As the game went on, he began to find it more difficult with Newcastle being on the back foot, but he can take pride in how he performed.

Jacob Murphy – 7/10

Murphy linked up extremely well with Yedlin throughout the first half and played an important role in Newcastle’s opener. As the game dragged on, Newcastle found it hard, but he still looked to be positive.

Joselu – 6/10

Joselu’s link up was very impressive in the first half, but the two United goals before half-time killed his momentum. United controlled the game and he didn’t see much of the ball for the second half before he was taken off.

Dwight Gayle – 6/10

Gayle was given an opportunity which he grabbed with both hands as he his excellent finish beat de Gea early in the game. However, he showed his limitations as the game went on and he struggled to have any sort of involvement.

Substitutions:

Rolando Aarons – 5/10

Aarons came on for the last 25 minutes of the game, but with Newcastle seeing so little of the ball, he found it extremely difficult to get into the game.

Aleksandar Mitrovic – N/A

Coming on for Joselu, Mitrovic found it hard to see any of the ball due to united’s control of the ball and the fact that the game was already over at 4-1.

Mohamed Diame – N/A

Diame played the final 15 minutes of the game and barely got involved, not due to any fault of his own, but more because of Man United’s sheer control of the match by that point.

Edited by Aakanksh Sanketh