Niall Quinn
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And so they did it with zest and with great pace.
Lovely ball out here.
You know, Gary spoke about him being put back at centre after Carrick.
Suddenly the pitch looks much bigger and now the West Ham numbers aren't able to sniff out chances.
And his pace is electrifying.
And also, I think...
The brain works really well because he doesn't panic and just play a ball across.
We watched a player this morning, Traore, not being able to do anything like this in the positions he got into at Middlesbrough.
This lad, look, his maturity here to hold up.
What are the options?
Knocks it back to a player who he knows is probably going to be there because Mata comes up time and time again in these positions.
with the ball is first class back to him.
And I think that's a wonderful goal.
I think that's a proper Man United goal.
But going back to your question, it was the stretching of the pitch, making the pitch bigger and doing things more quickly and being more direct.
It was so much different from that pedestrian pace in, say, the last 25 minutes of the first half.
They did, yeah, but you know they probably deserved a second.
Their play was good enough.
Rashford was excellent out in that wing and set up a couple of chances.
But this is late on.