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Hello and welcome to coverage of Manchester United's Premier League match with Newcastle United.

Premier League / Matchday 19
Old Trafford / 26.12.2019
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Marcus Foley

Updated 26/12/2019 at 19:22 GMT


Full Time
A comfortable and conclusive victory for Manchester United in the end. They move back into the top six and just four points away from a Champions League berth.
88'
Even Fred's having a go from outside the box. Predictably it flies way over the bar.
85'
Greenwood plays it square to Pogba who gives it wide to Shaw. His deflected effort is collected by Dubravka.
80'
Pogba's run is picked out by Mat but his effort is straight at Dubravka.
68'
Martial is now being taken off. No empathy from Solskjaer for his forwards. Mata goes on in his place.
64'
Rashford makes way for Lingard. One England forward won't be happy with that, the other will be. Goals are there to be had.
61'
Ooooh! Martial inches away from his first Man Utd hat-trick. His low effort has Dubravka beaten but comes back off the post.
59'
Christian Antsu replaces Gayle for Newcastle.
58'
Pogba is going to get on the scoresheet today. Here he weaves in the area before hitting a left foot strike that Dubravka holds.
57'
Schar tries an effort from fully 35 yards out and was as errant as his pass that set up Greenwood's goal earlier.
52'
GOAL! Martial scores his second and it's another gift from Newcastle's awful defending. Longstaff tried a backpass from just inside his own half and only succeeded in playing in the French striker who ran on close to the keeper before dinking over to make it 4-1.
50'
Pogba not far away from 25 yards but it curls a yard wide of the goal.
48'
Decent first non-touch from Pogba, a dummy in the box which found Martial in possession but he could not slip his countryman in behind the defence.
46'
Paul Pogba comes on for McTominay. A wise change. Give Pogba minutes and the Scot could have blighted the game for the home side by getting a second yellow.
Half-Time
What looked like a difficult team talk from Solskjaer midway through the half, should now be a very satisfied dressing room. How do Newcastle get back into this?
45+1'
Another fine cross from Wan-Bissaka but this time Manquillo heads away from inside his own six-yard box.
44'
Old Trafford now boisterous and the team responding, Martial raced into the area before falling and asking for a penalty when he had two team-mates screaming for a pass.
41'
GOAL! Rashford powers home a header after a cross from Wan-Bissaka, who beat Willems then put in a pin-point centre.
39'
Good effort from Pereira aiming a free kick from the left hand side of the penalty area at the near post, folowing a foul on Rashford by the hapless Schar, but Dubravka pushed away well.
38'
You do wonder the wisdom of lower quality Premier League teams playing out from the back. Schar's pass was nowhere near a black and white shirt and put in Greenwood in a great position to strike.