38 mins: Chance for Everton! Coleman crosses from the right, and Sigurdsson, from a couple of yards inside the area, heads at De Gea.
36 mins: Young’s sliding challenge on Digne is an absolute beauty. He absolutely screams into the ball, leaving the Frenchman, who had no idea that a challenge was coming, on the ground and utterly bewildered. The ball ended up out of play, so United didn’t really benefit, but that was great.
35 mins: Fred leathers a shot well wide. “Pogba’s penalty sums up why he annoys the hell out of me,” rages Kevin Wilson. “He can’t just do what is simple and belt it into a corner. He has to humiliate his opponent. It’s the same when he gets the ball anywhere on the pitch. He has to chump a couple of players even where there is no advantage in doing so. He is the worst kind of show pony.”
35 mins: Everything for Manchester United is coming down the left, where Martial is proving an absolute nightmare for Everton’s defence.
34 mins: Pogba does well to get to the byline on the left, and his low cross is cleared for a corner.
30 mins: United have the ball in the net again, but it’s offside! Martial runs onto Pogba’s delicious pass and carries the ball into the area before playing back to Pogba, whose left-foot shot is saved by Pickford. This time the ball rolls straight to Rashford, but he was miles offside.
29 mins: Actually, replays from the other side of the pitch show that Gueye did get a toe to the ball. A good tackle, cunningly and convincingly disguised as a rubbish one.
Paul Pogba takes a ludicrously slow-motion run-up, but his kick is too close to the middle and Pickford, on his way down, flings up his left hand to brilliantly save! The ball rebounds straight back to Pogba, though, and he taps into the empty half of the net.
Pogba misses the penalty, but scores the rebound. Photograph: Lee Smith/Action Images via Reuters
And celebrates. Photograph: Peter Powell/Reuters
27 mins: It was a penalty as well, Gueye flinging out a leg in the hope of catching the ball, but only getting in the way of the player.
Gueye brings down Martial inside the box, resulting the penalty. Photograph: Martin Rickett/PA
26 mins: Martial goes down over Gueye’s leg inside the penalty area, and the referee points to the spot!
23 mins: Save! Martial’s drive from the edge of the area presents Pickford with a fairly routine save, but the shot is much too hard to hold. Corner.
Martial shoots. Photograph: Tom Purslow/Man Utd via Getty Images
22 mins: Another booking, this for an Everton player, after Gueye deliberately blocks Fred.
20 mins: Smalling goes straight through the back of Richarlison, taking him out ankle first, and gets booked for it.
19 mins: Chance for United! Martial crosses from the left and Mata, entirely unmarked a couple of yards goalside of the penalty spot, heads straight at Pickford.
17 mins:Manchester United work the ball around nicely, though unthreateningly.
14 mins:Everton win a corner, and Gomes powers a header straight at De Gea.
14 mins: At the other end, Rashford tries to tee up Martial with a lovely backheel inside the penalty area, but sadly Martial was about 15 yards away at the time.
12 mins: Richarlison tries to play in Walcott, but his pass is overhit and a defender gets there first.
10 mins: The day’s key statistic:
Sachin Nakrani(@SachinNakrani)
According to Opta, this is the first top-flight English football match involving a Bernard and Fred since a 2-2 draw between Burnley & Preston in February 1953.
7 mins: Lindelof gives the ball away inside the centre circle, and a few moments later Sigurdsson crosses and Bernard, stretching, just fails to get on the end of it. He succeeds, however, in getting on the ankle of Ashley Young, who after a few moments gingerly gets up.
Bernard catches Young. Photograph: Peter Powell/Reuters
5 mins: Bernard lifts a cross to the far post, where Richarlison falls over a little too easily and Shaw heads behind.
3 mins: The first shot of the match comes from the right foot of Paul Pogba, and is so wildly off-target it goes out for an Everton throw-in.
1 min: Peeeeeep! It’s now time for action, and Manchester United start it.
Preamble complete, it’s now time for action. Well, very nearly.
The game will be preceded by a minute’s silence, both as Old Trafford’s final match before Remembrance Sunday and also in solidarity with Leicester after last night’s helicopter crash.
Manchester United players take part in a moment of silence for the victims of a helicopter crash at Leicester City and Remembrance Sunday. Photograph: Peter Powell/Reuters
The players are out of the tunnel!
Lukaku has played every minute of the last 11 Manchester United games in league and Europe, scoring four times. But his travails in front of goal are probably a symptom of United’s attacking problems, rather than the cause of them.
Here’s José Mourinho on Romelu Lukaku:
The reason is that he’s playing lots of matches and lately, not just not scoring goals but fundamentally not showing lots of confidence. And sometimes we decide that the best thing for the player is not to be on the pitch, is to be protected. If later he comes into the game, probably he can come with a positive feeling of trying to make a difference, and be back to normality. Because normality with Romelu is to score lots of goals, and he’s a bit under pressure because he’s not doing that.
He’s asked if this is a big opportunity for Rashford, playing at centre-forward:
Rashford, he’s the player with more appearances for the club in the last two and a half years, so when people speak about him and opportunities, it’s just one more. Because he gets opportunities all the time.
Both those matches have now ended, with no further scoring.
Elsewhere in the Premier League, it’s Burnley 0-4 Chelsea and Crystal Palace 2-2 Arsenal, with both matches deep into stoppage time.
Headlines: Everton are unchanged, while Manchester United leave Romelu Lukaku on the bench against his former club.
The team sheets are in, and here are today’s line-ups:
Man Utd: De Gea, Young, Smalling, Lindelof, Shaw, Fred, Matic, Pogba, Mata, Rashford, Martial. Subs: Sanchez, Lukaku, Lingard, Rojo, Ander Herrera, Romero, Darmian. Everton: Pickford, Coleman, Keane, Zouma, Digne, Andre Gomes, Gueye, Walcott, Sigurdsson, Bernard, Richarlison. Subs: Baines, Mina, Tosun, Stekelenburg, Davies, Calvert-Lewin, Lookman. Referee: Jonathan Moss.
Everton have won their last three league games and José Mourinho will welcome his “good friend” Marco Silva with some trepidation. Everton, though, have kist 19 and won two of their 26 Premier League games at Old Trafford, which is rubbish. “The record isn’t the best but this reflects how it’s difficult to play there, how they are a good team as well,” says Silva. “What we have to do is to be ourselves, to respect the opponent because they have enough quality to cause problems for us. But you are there as well to create problems and to compete in the game. It is our goal as a team to go there and achieve a good result.”
Well yes, I’m sure it is. But can they actually do it? That’s what we’re here to find out!
Tony Scott (@Tony_Scott11)
