Manchester United’s Bruno Fernandes scores the staff’s fourth aim from the penalty spot, in opposition to Wolverhampton Wanderers within the Premier League, on December 8, 2025
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Manchester United climbed to sixth within the Premier League on Monday (December 8, 2025) as captain Bruno Fernandes scored twice to assist them declare a snug 4-1 victory at backside membership Wolverhampton Wanderers, whose calamitous season will get bleaker by the week.
Dispirited Wolves followers spent many of the first half chanting in protest on the membership’s Chinese language homeowners Fosun and their temper worsened when Fernandes gave United a Twenty fifth-minute lead.
To their credit score Wolves confirmed some enterprise they usually have been cheered off at halftime after Haiti worldwide Jean-Ricner Bellegarde fired dwelling an equaliser in stoppage time.
Bryan Mbeumo restored United’s lead with a tap-in after 52 minutes and Mason Mount’s composed end made it 3-1 simply previous the hour mark. Fernandes accomplished the job for United with a penalty after VAR noticed a handball.
When 9 minutes of stoppage time have been introduced the Wolves followers nonetheless inside Molineux booed and sang ‘blow the whistle’.
Ruben Amorim’s United have 25 factors from 15 video games whereas Wolves’s club-record eighth successive league defeat, and thirteenth of the season, left them marooned on two factors and in peril of setting some undesirable Premier League historical past.
Their tally of factors is the joint-lowest after 15 video games within the historical past of England’s high 4 tiers and they’re with out a league win since April, dropping 16 and drawing three since.
Wolves at the moment are 13 factors from the security zone and the speak is just not if they’ll be capable of mount an escape bid however whether or not they can surpass the lowest-ever Premier League factors haul of Derby County who managed solely 11 in 2007-08.
United wanting up
Whereas Wolves are wanting down, United are starting to search for and whereas there have been instances within the first half once they seemed susceptible, their second-half show was silky.
They ended up with 27 targets makes an attempt, essentially the most since Amorim took cost, and will have gained by a bigger margin.
“Attacking with freedom. I believed a number of the mixtures going ahead have been crisp, have been sharp and that is what we are able to do,” stated Mount, who dispatched a candy first-time volley from Fernandes’s chipped ball into the world.
Fernandes had opened the scoring by scooping a shot previous Sam Johnstone within the Wolves aim regardless of falling over.
United misplaced some management although and Wolves levelled simply earlier than the interval when Bellegarde fired dwelling after David Moller Wolfe’s shot had bounced into his path.
It was the primary aim Wolves had scored for 540 minutes however after a quick burst of pleasure the gloom as soon as once more descended within the second half when Diogo Dalot squared for Mbeumo to attain.
After Mount’s aim, Fernandes bagged his second of the evening with a usually assured penalty after Yerson Mosquera was adjudged by VAR to have dealt with a goal-bound shot.
Wolves have been jeered off and supervisor Rob Edwards, who changed Vítor Pereira final month, stated he couldn’t blame them.
“There was an anger within the stadium. The lads try. The supporters are offended and I get it,” he stated.
“It is the hardest league on the earth and we got here right into a staff who hadn’t gained since April. I wasn’t anticipating a fast turnaround.”
With a visit to Premier League leaders Arsenal subsequent, issues are prone to worsen earlier than they get higher for the Midlands membership.
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