{"id":474142,"date":"2023-12-26T18:10:19","date_gmt":"2023-12-26T22:10:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=474142"},"modified":"2023-12-26T18:11:19","modified_gmt":"2023-12-26T22:11:19","slug":"man-united-comeback-from-0-2-to-beat-villa-3-2-on-boxing-day","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/man-united-comeback-from-0-2-to-beat-villa-3-2-on-boxing-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Man United comeback from 0-2 to beat Villa 3-2 on Boxing Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Manchester United won against Aston Villa 3-2 at Old Trafford as Erik ten Hag\u2019s side was trailing by 2 goals after the 1<sup>st<\/sup> 45 minutes but showed a completely different face in the 2<sup>nd<\/sup> half and won 3-2 as the winning goals scored Rasmus Hojlund as that was the Danish forward 1<sup>st<\/sup> goal in the EPL.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">BIG THREE POINTS! \u27953\ufe0f\u20e3<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\/MUNAVL?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#MUNAVL<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Manchester United (@ManUtd) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ManUtd\/status\/1739768255743455303?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">December 26, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>John McGinn scored the 1<sup>st<\/sup> goal in the 21<sup>st<\/sup> minute to give the Villains the lead as only 5 minutes later, Leander Dendoncker netted to double the away club lead.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Alejandro Garnacho for Manchester United in the Premier League this season:<\/p>\n<p>LW<br \/>\n16 appearances<br \/>\n1 goals<br \/>\n1 assists<\/p>\n<p>RW<br \/>\n1 appearance<br \/>\n2 goals <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/9q0MESKt5z\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/9q0MESKt5z<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Football on TNT Sports (@footballontnt) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/footballontnt\/status\/1739769694712725592?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">December 26, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>However, the 2<sup>nd<\/sup> half started with a disallowed goal from Alejandro Garnacho in the 48<sup>th<\/sup> minute. However, the Argentinian scored 2 more goals that counted \u2013 in the 59<sup>th<\/sup> minute and in the 71<sup>st<\/sup> minute to tie the result.<\/p>\n<p>Rasmus Hojlund netted the winning goal in the 82<sup>nd<\/sup> minute, as that was his debut goal in the Premier League.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Rasmus Hojlund&#8217;s game by numbers vs. Aston Villa<\/p>\n<p>100% passes completed<br \/>\n22 touches<br \/>\n1 key pass<br \/>\n1 shot<br \/>\n1 goal<\/p>\n<p>A massive FIRST goal for Man Utd. \ud83d\ude4c\ud83d\ude4c\ud83d\ude4c <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/xq2YRrx3D3\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/xq2YRrx3D3<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Statman Dave (@StatmanDave) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/StatmanDave\/status\/1739765996833935695?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">December 26, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Manchester United are 6<sup>th<\/sup> with 31 points after 19 matches, as the Red Devils won after failing to do so in their previous 3 league games.<\/p>\n<p>Aston Villa are 3<sup>rd<\/sup> with 39 points after 19 games as Emery\u2019s side failed to win 2<sup>nd<\/sup> straight match in the Premier League.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Manchester United won against Aston Villa 3-2 at Old Trafford as Erik ten Hag\u2019s side was trailing by 2 goals after the 1st [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":474144,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[18818,16789,17317],"news_category":[136,14235,16715],"gn_keywords":[18819,17559,17886],"acf":{"announce":"The Red Devils comeback from 2 goals behind at halftime to triumph at Old Trafford.","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\/474142"}],"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\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=474142"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/474142\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":474146,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/474142\/revisions\/474146"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/474144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=474142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=474142"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=474142"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=474142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}