Anon: We should have kept Frank. Going down with Dyche. No ambition at all.

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Everton finally get hold of the ball in a meaningful area. Alex Iwobi carries the ball towards the United box and finds Ellis Simms, but hgis shot from range is blocked.

Manchester United guilty of a touch too many.

Marcus Rashford fails to get his shot away near the edge of the box, inviting a tackle. Everton can't fully clear and the England forward almost gets a second bite of the cherry until he is flagged offside.

It's not just that Manchester United are seeing the vast majority of possession, they're also tougher in the tackle at the moment to win it back.

Everton are really struggling for any kind of foothold.

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Ellis Simms is having to fight a battle all on his own up top for Everton. Tough gig for a young kid.

In contrast to Jordan Pickford, at the other end David de Gea has yet to make a save. Granted, he should have been forced into one by Ellis Simms.

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BBC Sport at Old Trafford

That must have been some team talk from Erik ten Hag at half-time.

The second half had been under way for over a minute before the Manchester United manager made his way out of the tunnel.

He could have missed something important!

Anon: Here we go, more goals in this Simms I hope!!

SS: Does this put Man U back in the title race?

Nope.

As you were.

Manchester United drive forward but a low cross into the box is hacked away by Everton.

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Andy: We can't rely on other teams to be worse than us in order to survive... I'm so sick of us being rubbish year after year something has to change and I have absolutely no idea what it is...

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We're back under way with Everton having made a change. Left-back Vitalii Mykolenko is on for Ben Godfrey, who had a tough time of it in that first half.

Everton have a record of W0, D1, L10 when trailing at half-time in the English Premier League this season.

Ah.

Schwan: AWB form shows how any player with right coaching & a clear system to play can rally change player performance radically. His runs, passes, even shots all looked really matured & smart. This not by accident, but hours in training. ETH deserve all credit.

Anon: Excellent 1st Half for Man Utd - they should be 2:0 up so let's see what the 2nd half brings

Manchester United attempted 22 shots in the first half of this match, the most for them in a Premier League match since the start of 2008-09 (when Gracenote started collecting this data).

The previous record was 19 against Tottenham on 19 October 2022 (2-0 home win).

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Anon: Pickford has been excellent today. Only reason Everton are in this game.

Maz Farookhi
Commentator on BBC Radio 5 Live at Old Trafford

Jordan Pickford has been far and away Everton’s best player.

That tells you the story of this game so far.

He's having the game of his life.

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Scott McTominay's goal here is his first in the Premier League for Manchester United since he netted the opening goal against Sean Dyche's Burnley in a 3-1 home win on 30 December 2021, 464 days ago.

Anon: 1-0 means nothing, this team now has fight and never say die since Dyche.

Matt: Everton surely the worst team to visit Old Trafford all season. No shape; can’t defend; lacking any sort of threat. Absolutely no chance they will get anything from this.

Manchester United lead, but they should be out of sight. They'll be confident of adding more goals after the break.

Sean Dyche needs to find a way to stem the tide first and then find a way back in to this.

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Save!

Antony - not for the first time - has space in which to charge. He takes his time, picks his spot and then curls and effort that Jordan Pickford pushes away on the dive.

From the resulting corner, Lisandro Martinez fires wide.