Alejandro Garnacho Broke His 58-year-old Record At Manchester United

Manchester United young player, Alejandro Garnacho. (Photo: Twitter/@ManUtd)

JAKARTA - Alejandro Garnacho successfully broke the 58-year-old Manchester United (MU) record when he scored his only time his team won over Real Sociedad, Friday, November 4, 2022.

MU and Sociedad met in the last match of the Europa League Group E 2022/2023 at Anoeta Stadium. Garnacho scored the only goal in the 17th minute to bring the visitors to victory.

The Argentine national team player broke into the host's goal after maximizing Cristiano Ronaldo's pass. He was 18 years old and 125 days old when he scored the winning goal.

This goal made Garnacho break the eternal record held by the Red Devils legend George Best for 58 years. He is also now the youngest player from outside England to score for United in European clubs.

Best holds the record for the youngest non-English player to score with Manchester United in European competition thanks to his goal against Djurgarden's IF in 1964. He made that record at the age of 18 years and 158 days.

Unfortunately, the record set by Garnacho could not help the Red Devils qualify for the knockout stages of the Europa League directly. The reason is, they failed to coup Sociedad from the top position of the group.

An additional three points made Erik Ten Hag's squad collect 15 points and sit in second place in the group standings. The same number of points was collected by Sociedad, who was at the top.

Finis as the group winner made Sociedad entitled to a direct ticket to the round of 16 of the second caste of the European club competition.

Meanwhile, MU had to play in the playoffs against the team throwing away the European Champions League to win tickets to the knockout round.