Manchester United vs Aston Villa result, highlights as Bruno Fernandes and Scott McTominay settle six-goal thriller

Andrew Haslam

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Manchester United reached the Carabao Cup fourth round after a pulsating second half against Aston Villa at Old Trafford, with late goals from Bruno Fernandes and Scott McTominay settling a six-goal thriller in which the visitors had led twice.

Clear chances were at a premium in a tight first half, Diogo Dalot's improvised header from a Tyrell Malacia cross deflecting on to the roof of the net via Danny Ings in the home side's best move. At the other end, McTominay was forced to head a viciously inswinging Douglas Luiz corner off the line with goalkeeper Martin Dubravka scrambling to cover. 

In contrast, the second half could scarcely have started more eventfully, Jacob Ramsey playing in Ollie Watkins to stride clear and clip over Dubravka within three minutes. Villa, however, were pegged back just 19 seconds after play resumed, Fernandes getting away down the right on to a long ball and unselfishly squaring for Anthony Martial to tap in.

Unai Emery responded with a triple substitution and was rewarded almost instantly as one of his three changes, Leon Bailey, nodded Ashley Young's cross back across goal where Dalot inadvertently turned the ball in to restore Villa's lead.

Once more, however, United responded strongly and, a few moments after Marcus Rashford — celebrating a call-up to England's World Cup squad earlier in the day — had fired narrowly wide, the Three Lions international did superbly to keep his feet inside the penalty area and shoot low past Robin Olsen.

Olsen was beaten again 12 minutes from time as his attempted pass out was intercepted by Alejandro Garnarcho. The substitute found Fernandes in the area, although the shot needed a sizeable deflection off Tyrone Mings to help it past the goalkeeper. 

There was no such fortune required for United's clinching fourth goal a minute into added time, Garnacho again delivering a pin-point cross from the left on to the toe of the stretching McTominay to finally settle an ultimately thrilling contest.

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Manchester United vs Aston Villa final score

  1H 2H FT
Manchester United 0 4 4
Aston Villa 0 2 2

Manchester United vs Aston Villa updates, highlights as it happened

FULLTIME: What a second half we've had eventually here! Six goals and plenty of action, ultimately won by the home side thanks to late strikes from Bruno Fernandes and Scott McTominay. It's Manchester United who go into the last 16 of the Carabao Cup, but Villa certainly played their part.

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GOAL! 90+1 mins: What a cross! Manchester United wrap up the win in some style and it's thanks to an absolutely pinpoint cross from Alejandro Garnacho, who collects the ball on the left and looks up to deliver a perfect ball on to the toe of the stretching Scott McTominay, who diverts it past Robin Olsen.

89 mins: That would have been the game, surely. Christian Eriksen finds Scott McTominay inside the area and the midfielder is so close to finding the top corner as he spins and hits it, the ball clipping the top of the bar on it way over.

86 mins: Alejandro Garnacho is down for a spot of treatment, holding up Manchester United's intended substitution of Lisandro Martinez for Victor Lindelof. The 18-year-old is OK to continue, however, so on comes Martinez.

82 mins: This is surely a sign of Manchester United's intent now as Marcus Rashford goes off to be replaced by Casemiro. The Brazilian will shore up the home midfield for the last 10 minutes or so.

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GOAL! 78 mins: Manchester United are in front for the first time! It's a nightmare for Aston Villa, whose goalkeeper Robin Olsen plays the ball straight to Alejandro Garnacho. The substitute finds Bruno Fernandes inside the area, and his shot deflects in off Tyrone Mings!

76 mins: That's excellent work from Robin Olsen, who gets down smartly to his left to push away Bruno Fernandes' low shot after the Manchester United man had turned sharply inside the area. From the corner, Harry Maguire heads straight at the goalkeeper — either side was surely a goal — before Bruno Fernandes flashes a shot just wide at the second time of asking.

73 mins: Either side could win this, you fancy, with Leon Bailey the latest to threaten, coming inside from the right on to his left foot. He can't quite get hold of the shot, however, and Martin Dubravka gathers in comfort.

70 mins: Villa caught once again playing out from the back and if there's one player you don't want to see breaking into your penalty area unchallenged, it's Bruno Fernandes. The Portuguese playmaker is away down the left but, with team-mates in the middle screaming for a pass, he opts to try a shot from an impossibly tight angle and the ball flashes across the face of goal. Not sure he made the right choice there.

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GOAL! 67 mins: Marcus Rashford won't be denied this time and it's all square again! The ball breaks his way after his flick into the path of Christian Eriksen is cut out and Rashford does brilliantly to keep his feet before firing in with a low shot. What a game this is now!

65 mins: It's a totally different game now to that dreary first half, and Marcus Rashford is so close to making it 2-2 as another ball over the top catches out the Aston Villa backline. It's great chest control but the shot is just wide.

63 mins: Erik ten Hag responds with a triple substitution of his own, Christian Eriksen, Anthony Elanga and Alejandro Garnacho coming on. Fred, Donny van de Beek and goalscorer Anthony Martial make way.

GOAL! 61 mins: The visitors are back in front and it's not one Diogo Dalot will want to see again. It's a nice Villa move, starting from their goalkeeper before the ball is worked to Ashley Young down the right. No one closes down the former Manchester United man, whose deep cross is nodded back across goal by substitute Leon Bailey — and Dalot can only turn it past the helpless Martin Dubravka!

59 mins: Triple change for the visitors, Emi Buendia replacing Danny Ings and Leon Bailey on for Jacob Ramsey. And then Ezri Konsa makes way for Tyrone Mings.

56 mins: Both teams showing a lot more adventure and invention going forward since the restart, which I think is something we can all get behind. Ashley Young is the latest player to be shown a yellow card for an attempted trip on Marcus Rashford.

52 mins: That's livened things up, as you might imagine, with Bruno Fernandes and Douglas Luiz both going into the referee's notebook after tangling in midfield.

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GOAL! 49 mins: Would you believe it - Manchester United have levelled straight from the kickoff! A ball over the top catches out the defence and Bruno Fernandes gets away down the right before squaring for a simple Anthony Martial tap-in!

GOAL! 48 mins: We have a breakthrough... and it's the visitors who've got it! Jacob Ramsey comes away with the ball in midfield and plays in Ollie Watkins down the left. The striker's pace takes him away from the defence and his clips the ball over the advancing Martin Dubravka. Villa in front!

46 mins: Danny Ings gets us started again, with Christian Eriksen and Anthony Elanga having spent the whole of the interval going through a fairly vigorous warm-up. How long will it be until either manager makes a change?

HALFTIME: Bruno Fernandes tries to catch out Robin Olsen by going for goal instead of crossing with a free-kick down the right, but the Swede is alive to it and gets right behind the shot, which is under-hit in any case.

And that's the end of the first-half action at Old Trafford, Douglas Luiz's corner that was cleared off the line by Scott McTominay is the closest we've come to a goal. Diogo Dalot's deflected effort on to the roof of the net was Manchester United's best effort but in truth, both sides need to show more attacking threat in the second period.

44 mins: Another booking and it's another Manchester United player, Harry Maguire clattering Ollie Watkins on halfway. Late and no real need to do it.

40 mins: First yellow card of the evening, Scott McTominay barging into Ashley Young as the Villa right-back comes forward.

The visitors play the free-kick short, but before they can launch it into the box, the whistle goes for a foul with both Bruno Fernandes and Victor Lindelof on the deck. 

38 mins: Aston Villa look to have got away with one here as Calum Chambers carelessly plays a blind ball across his own goal and Marcus Rashford picks it up 25m out. He skips past one challenge, then another, but opts to try to beat another man rather than shoot and runs out of room.

Manchester United quickly regain possession, but Bruno Fernandes is crowded out inside the penalty area.

35 mins: After that decent spell for Aston Villa, normal service looks to have been resumed, with Manchester United controlling both possession and territory, although the visitors look to be showing a bit more on the ball.

31 mins: Aston Villa starting to show a bit more ambition and Scott McTominay needs to be alert to head an in-swinging corner from Douglas Luiz out from under his crossbar, with Martin Dubravka scrambling. That was heading in!

24 mins: That's the closest we've come so far! Marcus Rashford gets one-vs-one with Ashley Young down the left and slips a pass through for the overlapping Tyrell Malacia. The left-back's cross makes it as far as the fast-arriving Diogo Dalot at the far post, but the Portuguese's improvised header ends up on the roof of the net via a deflection.

19 mins: Manchester United have the ball in the net.... but the flag is up. Fred plays a defence-splitting pass to Marcus Rashford, who squares for Bruno Fernandes to touch the ball into an empty net, but the Brazilian delayed his pass a fraction too long and Rashford had strayed just offside.

17 mins: Whereas Manchester United are moving the ball at pace, plenty of one-touch football, Villa look like they're trying to play a more patient style, keeping possession at the back as they look for an opening in the home defence.

12 mins: No clear chances for either side, and no sign of either gaining control of this one just yet. Both knocking the ball around well though.

8 mins: An early opportunity for Martin Dubravka to show what he can do, the Manchester United goalkeeper judging the bounce correctly to collect John McGinn's long ball with Ollie Watkins lurking.

Slightly less composed from Robin Olsen at the other end, with the Villa goalkeeper coming racing out to make a sliding tackle on Bruno Fernandes and concede a corner. From it, Tyrell Malacia smashes the ball into the stands from an angle.

4 mins: The visitors have pressed really high since kickoff — three minutes in and Manchester United have only just got out of their own half for the first time. When they do, however, they nearly take advantage, Calum Chambers tidying up under pressure from Anthony Martial.

KICKOFF: Donny van de Beek gets us underway, with two teams who have lifted this trophy five times apiece aiming to reach this season's last 16.

5 mins to KO: The teams are in the tunnel, with Old Trafford in full voice. This should be a decent cup tie!

15 mins to KO: "Cristiano Ronaldo is ill, so he's not available," says Manchester United manager Erik ten Hag.

"We have to take revenge [for Sunday], it was a poor performance and a poor result. It wasn't the standards we want to match so we have to take revenge.

"I'm happy Anthony Martial is there. He had a good pre-season but until now it's been a disappointing season for him. He's a good fit for how we want to play and hopefully he can stay fit now.

"[Martin] Dubravka has an opportunity to show what he can do — we believe in him and now it's his opportunity to show it.

"We want to win every game, and we'll do everything in our power to win it."

25 mins to KO: Unai Emery's Aston Villa reign kicked off with a 3-1 win at home to Manchester United on Sunday, and the Spaniard is keen for more of the same at Old Trafford this evening.

"We are happy but it's only the start. We'll improve a lot of things, but winning is better.

"I want to give players an opportunity to show their skills and their capacity. Each of them has the confidence to do it. We know we’re playing a team who are very strong at home, but the challenge for us is to find consistency.

"I want to know [England] again. When I was here three years ago with Arsenal I enjoyed it, and now I want to use again my experiences, to be together with Aston Villa supporters and try to do something important.

"The opportunity is coming in each match. It takes time to improve things but we want to work, we want to be consistent and we want to be competitive. Tonight is a good challenge for us and a good opportunity for us to take the next step."

35 mins to KO: Harry Maguire makes only his fifth start of the season for Manchester United tonight, although that lack of game time didn't prevent him being named in England's World Cup squad earlier.

"It's a very proud day for myself and my family. Representing your country in a World Cup is the pinnacle of my career but I’m fully focused on tonight’s game," he said.

"We had a very disappointing result against Aston Villa on Sunday and it’s about finding our performance and getting into the next round. It's nice to start the game and get some minutes under my belt, but it's all about the club and getting into the next round. This club needs to be winning trophies and this is the first one available this season."

45 mins to KO: Both sides have fielded not far off a full-strength lineup, with Marcus Rashford leading the Manchester United line on the day he was named in England's World Cup squad, while Luke Shaw is on the bench. 

Martin Dubravka makes his Manchester United debut in goal while Anthony Martial is back after a month out with a calf injury.

For Villa, Ollie Watkins and Danny Ings are up front together while John McGinn comes back into the side, and takes over as captain. 

60 mins to KO: Team news is in!

Manchester United: Dubravka, Dalot, Lindelof, Maguire, Malacia, McTominay, Fred, Van de Beek, Fernandes, Rashford, Martial.

Aston Villa: Olsen, Young, Konsa, Chambers, Augustinsson, Ramsey, Kamara, Douglas Luiz, McGinn, Watkins, Ings

1 hr 15 mins before KO: This is the 16th and final tie in this stage of the competition, with the likes of Arsenal, Chelsea and Tottenham already out while Manchester City, Liverpool and Newcastle are safely into the last 16.

2 hrs before KO: United were beaten 3-1 by these opponents in the Premier League last weekend as Unai Emery enjoyed a superb start to life as Villa boss. "Football teaches you lessons," Ten Hag wrote in his pre-match programme notes. "The players have an opportunity to demonstrate very quickly that they have paid attention to what happened at Villa Park on Sunday.

"I must say that we had put together a good run of form in the games before our Premier League defeat at Villa. But everything we did right in those preceding games — starting properly, winning out battles and earning the right to victory — was absent from our performance at Villa Park.

"At Manchester United, it is an obligation to fight for victory in every game, in every competition, and that is the attitude I want to see from my players."

2 hrs 30 mins before KO: Here we go, then — the final match at Old Trafford before the World Cup gets underway in Qatar. It's Manchester United against Aston Villa in the third round of the Carabao Cup, and Erik ten Hag's first taste of knockout football in England.

When is the Carabao Cup fourth-round draw?

The draw for the fourth round of the Carabao Cup takes place after Manchester United vs Aston Villa has finished.

The full draw will be available to see here.

What time is Manchester United vs Aston Villa?

Manchester United play host to Aston Villa at Old Trafford in Manchester, England. It kicks off at 8 p.m. GMT (3 p.m. ET) on Thursday, November 10.

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Date Thurs, November 10 Thurs, November 10 Thurs, November 10 Fri, November 11
Time 20:00 GMT 15:00 ET 15:00 ET 07:00 AEDT

Manchester United vs Aston Villa live stream, TV channel

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TV channel Sky Sports Football/Sky Sports Main Event — — beIN SPORTS 3
Stream Sky GO, NOW TV ESPN+ DAZN beIN SPORTS Connect, Kayo Sports, Optus Sport

UK: The match will be broadcast on Sky Sports and is available to stream via Sky GO or NOW TV.

USA: Fans can stream the match via ESPN+.

Canada: The match is available to watch through DAZN.

Australia: beIN SPORTS 3 will broadcast the match, which is also available to stream through beIN SPORTS Connect, Kayo Sports, and Optus Sport.

Manchester United vs Aston Villa lineups

It's a strong Manchester United side for this one, with Marcus Rashford starting alongside Anthony Martial up front and Bruno Fernandes playing in just behind them.

Manchester United: Dubravka, Dalot, Lindelof, Maguire, Malacia, McTominay, Fred, Van de Beek, Fernandes, Rashford, Martial.

Subs: De Gea, Martinez, Shaw, Casemiro, Eriksen, Pellistri, Elanga, Garnacho, Shoretire

Unai Emery also selects a strong starting lineup, Ollie Watkins partnering Danny Ings up front while John McGinn comes into midfield - and takes over as captain.

Aston Villa: Olsen, Young, Konsa, Chambers, Augustinsson, Ramsey, Kamara, Douglas Luiz, McGinn, Watkins, Ings.

Subs: Martinez, Cash, Mings, Sanson, Buendia, Nakamba, Digne, Bailey, Archer.

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Manchester United vs Aston Villa betting odds, prediction

Villa's 3-1 win last weekend was their first league defeat at Villa Park since 1995, and they have only beaten the Red Devils on two other occasions in all competitions in the past 23 years. However, one of those was a 1-0 league win last September.

In other words, United are expected to recover from last weekend's setback and progress to the next round but, given Ten Hag will likely make changes and the fact that Villa are suddenly high in confidence, there is little guarantee of a home win.

Prediction: This will be a competitive and probably low-scoring tie. United have been miserly at the back for much of the past few weeks but have not exactly been blowing teams away in attack. We're going for a 1-0 home win.

Odds shown are over 90 minutes

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(Sky Bet)		 USA
(BetMGM)		 Canada
(Sports Interaction)		 Australia
(Ladbrokes)
Man United Win 4/7 58/100 1.58 1.62
Draw 3/1 29/10 3.75 3.90
Aston Villa Win 19/4 17/4 5.00 5.25
Over 2.5 Goals 8/11 3/4 1.77 1.73
Both Teams to Score 8/11 82/100 1.77 1.75

Andrew Haslam

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Andrew Haslam is a freelance journalist with more than 20 years' experience working in football. A long-suffering Middlesbrough fan, as if there's any other kind, he has been a long-standing member of UEFA's digital team with particular focus on press kits and Fantasy football in addition to live match coverage, and has also worked for the Premier League and Chelsea among many other roles.