Manchester Utd 3 Stoke 0

Man­chester Uni­ted 3 Sto­ke City 0, Old Traf­ford, Eng­lish Pre­mier Lea­gue, Jan­uary 15, 2018. Man­chester Uni­ted fol­lowed up a vi­tal 2-0 tri­umph ag­ainst Ever­ton at Good­ison Park on New Year´s Day wi­th an equally im­port­ant 3-0 vic­tory over Sto­ke City 3-0 at Old Traf­ford cour­tesy of a goal each from An­tonio Va­lencia, An­thony Mar­tial, and Ro­melu Lukaku.

In­com­ing Sto­ke City man­ager Paul Lam­bert could on­ly sit and watch as Man­chester Uni­ted mopped the floor wi­th The Pot­ters in a 3-0 ho­me win. Ecuadori­an in­ter­na­tion­al An­tonio Va­lencia put Uni­ted in­to an early 1-0 lead when the ver­sat­ile play­er ham­mered the ball pa­st Sto­ke City goal­keeper Jack But­land and in­to the net from just in­side the pen­alty area af­ter on­ly nine min­utes of ac­tion be­fore An­thony Mar­tial made it 2-0 to the ho­me te­am in the 38th min­ute. Jose Mourinho´s boys kept up their dom­in­ance fol­low­ing the re­sump­tion and Ro­melu Lu­kaku net­ted the third goal of the en­counter eight­een min­utes from time to se­cure a 3-0 suc­cess. Man­chester Uni­ted Te­am: Da­vid de Gea, Phil Jones, Chris Small­ing, Lu­ke Shaw, An­tonio Va­lencia, Paul Po­gba, Ju­an Ma­ta, Jesse Lin­gard, Ro­melu Lu­kaku, Ne­manja Mat­ic, An­thony Mar­tial. Sub­stitutes: Mar­ou­ane Fel­laini, Scott Mc­Tom­inay, Mar­cus Rash­ford, Vic­tor Lin­delof, Mar­cos Rojo, An­der Her­rera, Joel Pe­reira. Sto­ke City Te­am: Jack But­land, Mor­itz Bauer, Kurt Zouma, Josh Ty­mon, Bruno Mar­tins Indi, Joe Al­len, Steph­en Ire­land, Xherdan Shaqiri, Pe­ter Crouch, Dar­ren Fletch­er, Eric Max­im Choupo-Mot­ing. Sub­stitutes: Kev­in Wim­mer, Ra­madan Sobhi, Mame Di­ouf, Tom Ed­wards, Ibrahim Afel­lay, Char­lie Ad­am, Lee Grant.

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Man­chester Uni­ted over­came Sto­ke City 4-2 at Old Traf­ford on the 20th of Oct­ober 2012 thanks to a double by Way­ne Roo­ney and one goal apiece from Robin van Per­sie and Dan­ny Welbeck.

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