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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Wolverine GTR" data-source="post: 23585175" data-attributes="member: 158020"><img src="/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/default/love.gif"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":love:" title="Love    :love:" data-shortname=":love:" />Burnley 0 Manchester United 2:  Lukaku double enough despite Rashford red   <img src="https://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/newpix/2018/09/02/17/4FA3D1F900000578-6124097-image-a-67_1535904254176.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />   Manchester United returned to winning ways on Sunday as Romelu Lukaku's   first-half double was enough to give them a 2-0 victory over  Burnley.Jose  Mourinho's men secured a morale-boosting win to reduce  some of the pressure on  their manager despite Paul Pogba's missed  penalty and Marcus Rashford's red card  in the space of two second-half  minutes.    A banner protesting against executive vice-chairman Ed Woodward was  flown  over the ground before kick-off, but United were not distracted  from the job at  hand in the early exchanges, with Jesse Lingard missing  three chances in a  dominant opening spell.    Burnley grew into the game but found themselves behind 27 minutes in,  when  Lukaku jumped just high enough to head a fine Alexis Sanchez cross  past Joe Hart  from six yards out.   It needed a fine save from Hart to deny Lukaku a quick second after a  swift  break involving Sanchez, but the Belgium striker smashed home  from point-blank  range to make it 2-0 before half-time after Lingard's  shot hit first Charlie  Taylor and then Ashley Westwood.   Paul Pogba wasted the chance to make it 3-0 when Hart comfortably saved  his  rather tame penalty, and Burnley hopes of a comeback were  increased two minutes  later when substitute Rashford was sent off for  pushing his head into Phil  Bardsley's after he appeared to kick out at  the forward.   Sean Dyche's men pushed forward with the man advantage but Lukaku  should have  killed off the game, the forward wasting two opportunities  when put clean  through one-on-one with Hart.   United held firm for their second win of the season, though, allowing   Mourinho to head into the two-week international break in a happier   mood.</blockquote>

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