{"id":472075,"date":"2023-12-06T18:33:22","date_gmt":"2023-12-06T22:33:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=472075"},"modified":"2023-12-06T18:34:55","modified_gmt":"2023-12-06T22:34:55","slug":"mctominays-brace-inspires-man-utd-to-valuable-2-1-win-over-chelsea","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/mctominays-brace-inspires-man-utd-to-valuable-2-1-win-over-chelsea\/","title":{"rendered":"McTominay&#8217;s brace inspires Man Utd to valuable 2-1 win over Chelsea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Manchester United secured a crucial 2-1 win over Chelsea in a hard-fought game at Old Trafford on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n<p>Scott McTominay proved to be the hero for the Red Devils as his brace inspired his team to victory.<\/p>\n<p>The hosts started the game strongly and were even awarded a penalty. Sadly for them, Bruno Fernandes was unable to convert it and the score remained 0-0.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">UP THE REDSSSSSS!!! \u2764\ufe0f\u200d\ud83d\udd25<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/MUFC?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#MUFC<\/a> || <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/MUNCHE?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#MUNCHE<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Manchester United (@ManUtd) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ManUtd\/status\/1732523992978714692?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">December 6, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>But McTominay came to the rescue just 10 minutes later, who carved Chelsea&#8217;s defense to send the home team in front.<\/p>\n<p>Mauricio Pochettino&#8217;s men, however, took the challenge and started pressing high. Just before half-time a fabulous run from Cole Palmer, followed by elegant finished drew the game level.<\/p>\n<p>In the second half United were the more active team and their efforts were rewarded in the 69th minute when McTominay headed a fine cross from Alejandro Garnacho to score his second of the night and bring the victory at Old Trafford.<\/p>\n<p>It is a huge win for the Red Devils as it relieves the pressure of their and manager Erik ten Hag&#8217;s shoulders after dismal display against Newcastle 4 days later. They climb to 6th in the table with 27 points.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Manchester United secured a crucial 2-1 win over Chelsea in a hard-fought game at Old Trafford on Wednesday night. Scott McTominay proved to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4224,"featured_media":472076,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16774,16789,21549],"news_category":[136,14235,16715],"gn_keywords":[17902,17559,21550],"acf":{"announce":"The Red Devils returned to winning ways thanks to the brilliant Scot","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/472075"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4224"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=472075"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/472075\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":472079,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/472075\/revisions\/472079"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/472076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=472075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=472075"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=472075"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=472075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}