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Fernandes hat-trick brings back winning feeling at Old Trafford
The Guardian
|March 14, 2025
Manchester United's trophy hopes live to fight on against Lyon in the quarter-final after a swaggering display that battered Real Sociedad and must be the Ruben Amorim blueprint.
From the moment they fell behind early on, his side electrified, as if finally locating the high-voltage socket under Amorim and gleefully plugging themselves in.
United came at Sociedad relentlessly, a whir of energy and creativity that is the best advertisement yet for where their head coach might take them.
Bruno Fernandes crowned his and United's night with a blistering hat-trick strike, running on to Alejandro Garnacho's pass to blaze into the left corner to send United's faithful ballistic.
By the close, United had two legs versus Lyon - on 10 and 17 April - to navigate and make the semi-finals: they should fancy their chances to go all the way.
A Stretford End tifo-scale banner featuring United's pitchfork-wielding red devil and an explosion of fireworks heralded kick-off but what followed was the visitors pummelling their host in an opening nine minutes that closed with Imanol Alguacil's visitors 1-0 ahead.
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