FULL TIME
Rashford, Herrera, Martial and Lingard (2) all made the scoresheet as Man United thrash Cardiff.
FULL TIME
It's all over at the Cardiff City Stadium. A dream start for Ole Gunnar Solskjaer and his coaching staff and what a fine win it was.
Cardiff City 1-5 Manchester United
It's another for Manchester United! Jesse Lingard gets his second of the game and United's fifth. Pogba linked up with Jesse Lingard who's first touch was spot on enabling him to round the goalkeeper and place the ball into an empty net.
It's the first time United have scored five since the Fergie days.
GOAL!
89: Cardiff City 1-5 Manchester United - Jesse Lingard.
Subsitutions
86: Now its Manchester United's turn to use their final substitutions. Anthony Martial and Nemanja Matic leave the field to a standing ovation from the fans. The pair have been superb today. They are replaced by Andreas Pereira and Marouane Fellaini.
Substitutions
Both teams are looking to the bench for fresh legs. Marcus Rashford is replaced by Fred for Manchester United and Aron Gunnarsson leaves the field in exchange for Joe Ralls. Cardiff have now used their final substitution.
Substitution
73: Cardiff substitution - Junior Hoilett is replaced by Kadeem Harris.
Cardiff City 1-4 Manchester United
75: Zohore comes close for Cardiff! He's not been on the pitch very long and it just showed. He out ran Lindelof enabling him to fire a shot straight at David De Gea.
Cardiff City 1-4 Manchester United
69: Nearly! This time its United on the attack. Pogba's hungry for a goal.His long range effort is touched over the bar by Etheridge.
Cardiff City 1-4 Manchester United
66: SAVE! A great save by David De Gea who sees it late gets down to his left incredibly pushing Murphy's curling effort behind for a corner.
Cardiff City 1-4 Manchester United
61: Rashford comes close again! Victor Lindelof, a defender who has had his fair share of criticism carried the ball out from the back playing a through ball in behind the Cardiff defence only for the English prospect to fire wide.
Cardiff City 1-4 Manchester United
Lingard skipped past Bamba into the box and as the Cardiff man tries to recover, he tripped up Lingard and conceded the penalty which was tucked away nicely by the 26 year old.
GOAL!
57: Cardiff City 1-4 Manchester United - Jesse Lingard penalty
PENALTY
56: It's a penalty to Manchester United!
Another chance for Marcus Rashford. Again, Pogba is at the heart of the move. His no look pass played Rashford through, but Etheridge was first to the ball. The Red Devils are continuously knocking the ball around well on the right hand side.
Cardiff City 1-3 Manchester United
50: Another clever piece of play as a whole from Manchester United. After a patient build up, the ball worked its way through to Marcus Rashford who fired across goal and wide. An impressive start to the first half.
KICK OFF
45: Welcome back, the second half gets underway.
Cardiff are likely to change shape to try and turn the game around so it will be interesting to see whether Ole Gunnar Solskjaer has the ability to adapt under pressure. Nevertheless it's a superb start to his reign.
Taking the penalty aside, its a dream start for interim manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer who's team are already showing more attacking prowess than they did under José Mourinho.
HALF TIME
Manchester United were a joy to watch arguably for the first time this season. They go into the break 3-1 up.
Solskjaer makes four changes
Ole Gunnar Solskjaer makes four changes to United's lineup that faced Liverpool. Luke Shaw , Phil Jones, Paul Pogba and Anthony Martial all return to the side.
Manchester United Team News:
Substitutes: Romero, Bailly, Mata, Pereira, Fred, Dalot, Fellaini.
Cardiff Team News:
Substitutes: Smithies, Peltier, Ralls, Zohore, Reid, Mendez-Laing, Harris.
Manchester United Team News:
Starting XI to face Cardiff: De Gea, Shaw, Lindelof, Jones, Young, Matic, Herrera, Pogba, Lingard, Rashford, Martial.
Cardiff Team News:
Starting XI to face Manchester United: Etheridge, Bamba, Manga, Morrison, Cunningham, Arter, Gunnarsson, Camarasa, Murphy, Hoilett, Paterson.
A victory would be crucial for both sides especially over the chaotic Christmas period, so it’s bound to be an entertaining game.
The visitors sit sixth in the table, 11 points off of a fifth place Arsenal having registered just one win in their last five matches, while the Bluebirds hover just above the relegation zone at the other end of the table after clawing themselves out of the bottom three after winning three of their last six top flight games with fans getting behind boss Neil Warnock.
The Red Devil’s have travelled to Wales to face Cardiff City in the Premier League with United legend Ole Gunnar Solskjaer taking over as caretaker manager. Soskjaer, adored by the everyone associated with Manchester United had a brief spell in charge of Cardiff back in 2014.
A new era begins this evening at Manchester United in their first match since Jose Mourinho's dismissal earlier this week. The Red Devils’ 3-1 defeat at Liverpool last weekend signalled the end of the road for Jose Mourinho, who was sacked on Tuesday morning by Ed Woodward as the United hierarchy finally lost faith in the Portuguese.
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