Bruno Fernandes Gemilang, MU Beat Everton At Goodison Park

Bruno Fernandes (Instagram/@manchesterunited)

JAKARTA - Bruno Fernandes performed brilliantly when helping Manchester United beat the hosts Everton 3-1 at Goodison Park Stadium in the eighth match of the Premier League on Saturday, November 7.

The Portuguese midfielder scored two goals and provided an assist for Edinson Cavani's closing goal in United's win, although they fell behind to Bernard's goal, according to the official Premier League website.

The result ended MU's poor trend of winning in the last three matches in all competitions and the team has now moved up to 13th in the standings with 10 points.

MU also equaled two good records from the results of that match, namely seven consecutive away wins while making Goodison Park their most successful place with 16 wins in the Premier League era equivalent to the record at home to Aston Villa, Villa Park.

Meanwhile, Everton, who started the season well and had several weeks leading the standings, have now missed three matches with successive defeats and are left fifth in the standings, failing to add 13 points. In fact, their position could drop further depending on the results of other matches.

Still without Richarlison, who served his final ban following a red card at the Merseyside Derby, Everton's front line looked promising when Bernard snuffed out a counter-attack by outwitting goalkeeper David de Gea and putting the hosts ahead in the 19th minute.

Celebration of Bruno Fernandes (Instagram / @ manchesterunited)

But that advantage lasted only a moment, as Fernandes scored his first goal six minutes later to head in a Luke Shaw cross that goalkeeper Jordan Pickford couldn't anticipate.

Everton were close to restoring their lead, but Lucas Digne's shot hit the near post and the hosts were conceded again in the 32nd minute by Fernandes' second.

Fernandes fired a cross that was unable to reach Marcus Rashford, but the ball tricked Pickford and slammed into the hosts' goal to give United a 2-1 lead over Everton.

The advantage made United appear more confident and Pickford was again saved by VAR when he clashed with Harry Maguire in the 62nd minute, after failing to anticipate a cross ball, but the incident was ignored by referee Paul Tierney.

Two minutes later VAR turned against Everton when Digne was brought down by Maguire in the area, but Dominic Calvert-Lewin was caught offside first so there were no fouls for United.

United continued to press the hosts and in the fifth minute of injury time, Cavani scored his first goal for the Red Devils after snapping a one-two-touch pass from Fernandes with an easy shot to beat Pickford and seal a 3-1 win for the visitors.

The Premier League will enter the international break for two weeks after this, before Everton travel to Fulham headquarters and United host West Bromwich Albion.

The composition of players:

- Everton (4-3-3): Jordan Pickford; Seamus Coleman, Michael Keane, Mason Holgate, Lucas Digne; Abdoulaye Doucoure, Allan, Gylfi Sigurdsson (Alex Iwobi); James Rodriguez (Cenk Tosun), Dominic Calvert-Lewin, Bernard.

Coach: Carlo Ancelotti.

- Manchester United (4-2-3-1): David de Gea; Aaron Wan-Bissaka, Victor Lindelof, Harry Maguire, Luke Shaw (Axel Tuanzebe); Scott McTominay, Fred; Juan Mata (Paul Pogba), Bruno Fernandes, Marcus Rashford; Anthony Martial (Edinson Cavani).

Coach: Ole Gunnar Solskjaer.