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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Wolverine GTR" data-source="post: 24002099" 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:" />Manchester United 4 Fulham 1: Lukaku and Rashford lift Mourinho  gloom  <img src="https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2018/12/08/15/7172214-6474509-image-a-13_1544283305935.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />     Romelu Lukaku celebrated his return to the Manchester United starting line-up  with a goal as Jose Mourinho's under-fire side breezed to a 4-1 win over an  abject Fulham.   Lukaku's close-range finish was his first at Old Trafford for 997 competitive  minutes and followed efforts from Ashley Young and Juan Mata inside the opening  half hour.    Claudio Ranieri's team lived down to the reputation of the Premier League's  bottom club and any encouragement from Aboubakar Kamara's 67th-minute penalty  was extinguished by Andre-Frank Zambo Anguissa's red card 47 seconds  later.  Marcus Rashford completed United's first win in five league games,  achieved with Paul Pogba as an unused substitute, which lifts them up to sixth.   Young did a fine job of lifting the prevailing mood at Old Trafford by  nutmegging Denis Odoi on the left in the 13th minute and arrowing a superb  strike into the top-right corner.    Lukaku's pass cut Fulham apart down the same flank and Mata's finish through  the legs of Tim Ream matched the precision of Rashford's cutback – the England  forward whose venomous free-kick was well saved by Sergio Rico in the  38th minute.Unfortunately for the Fulham goalkeeper, the defensive efforts in  front of him remained woefully tepid and Jesse Lingard released Mata to give  Lukaku a simple finish before half-time.   Rico bravely threw himself at Lukaku's feet to save following a teasing cross  from Diogo Dalot early in the second half.Chris Smalling departed through  injury, doing little to knock United out of their stride as Ander Herrera  side-footed narrowly wide.   The Spanish midfielder was then harshly adjudged to have fouled Kamara, who  converted from the spot.Hopes of a Fulham revival were short-lived as Anguissa  challenged Rashford untidily and was shown a second yellow card.   The overworked Rico saved well from Rashford and Lukaku following the  introduction of Fred as a substitute. Given those stops, it was somewhat galling  when the ex-Sevilla keeper patted Rashford's speculative 83rd-minute effort into  the net.</blockquote>

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