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Monday 06 January 2025 11:09
Manchester United ace Amad achieved a rare feat, in scoring our equaliser during Sunday’s 2-2 draw with Liverpool.
The Ivorian kept his head inside the Merseysiders’ box to steer home Alejandro Garnacho’s cross, with 10 minutes remaining of a fixture that ebbed and flowed, particularly during an eventful second half.
Lisandro Martinez had smashed the Reds into a deserved lead, but the home side fought back to lead following Cody Gakpo’s curler and a Mohamed Salah penalty.
Amad’s intervention ensured we’d head back down the M62 with a point, following arguably our best performance at Anfield in a decade.
It wasn’t the first big game this season in which the 22-year-old has come up clutch.
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The former Atalanta forward has notched six goals and seven assists for United across all competitions, including the unforgettable late winner in December’s derby victory, at Manchester City.
His weekend effort at Anfield means he has become only the third Red to score at Anfield and the Etihad Stadium in the same Premier League season.
Wayne Rooney was the first to do it, ticking off both grounds during his first campaign as a United player, in 2004/05.
The teenage tyro netted a winner at Anfield in January 2005, following that up with the opener in a 2-0 win at Eastlands a month later – our first victory at City’s new home, after they moved there in 2003.
Robin van Persie was the matchwinner away at both of our rivals in the 2012/13 title-winning term.
The Dutchman, who won the Golden Boot that year, tucked away a late penalty in Liverpool before scoring an even more dramatic settler, from a deflected free-kick, at City.
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Liverpool 1 United 2
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The 2024/25 season is only the third since then where we’ve scored in both of the away games against Liverpool and City.
Rooney and Marcus Rashford were in the goals as we emerged victorious – 1-0 in both games – at Anfield and the Etihad during the early months of 2016.
United lost at our rivals in 2018/19, but Anthony Martial scored a penalty at City in a 3-1 defeat, a month before Jesse Lingard found the net for us at Liverpool in a loss by the same scoreline, during Jose Mourinho’s final match in charge.
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