Man Utd Beats Sunderland 3 – 0

Manchester United moved above rivals Manchester City to the top of the Premier League with a comfortable win

over struggling Sunderland.

After a slow start, Memphis Depay scored his fourth of the season by tucking in from Juan Mata’s cut-back.

United doubled the lead 40 seconds after the break as Wayne Rooney bundled over to end an 11-game scoring drought in the Premier League.

Mata then converted Ashley Young’s cross as Sunderland stayed bottom.

Until Depay slid in the opener in first-half stoppage time, the hosts looked ponderous in attack but once they went 2-0 up after good work from Anthony Martial, Sunderland had little to offer in response.

Rooney’s goal took him level with Denis Law as United’s joint-third leading league scorer with 171 goals, and ended his longest barren spell in the Premier League.

David De Gea was rarely troubled but made two good saves from Jeremain Lens, meaning United have conceded just once in the league at home this season.

Follow all the reaction to Saturday’s Premier League games

Man Utd 3 – 0 Sunderland

Depay 45′ Rooney 46′ Mata 90′

IN OTHER ENGLISH PREMIER LEAGUE MATCHES 

Tottenham 4 – 1 Man City

Leicester 2 – 5 Arsenal

Liverpool 3 – 2 Aston Villa

Man Utd 3 – 0 Sunderland

Southampton 3 – 1 Swansea

Stoke 2 – 1 Bournemouth

West Ham 2 – 2 Norwich

LINEUP, BOOKINGS (3) & SUBSTITUTIONS (5)

Manchester United

01 de Gea

25 A Valencia

12 Smalling

17 Blind (Jones – 74′ )

36 Darmian

16 Carrick (Schweinsteiger – 68′ )

28 Schneiderlin

08 Mata

10 Rooney

07 Depay (Young – 77′ )

09 Martial

Substitutes

04 Jones

18 Young

20 Romero

21 Herrera

27 Fellaini

31 Schweinsteiger

44 Pereira

Sunderland

01 Pantilimon

02 Jones Booked

16 O’Shea

15 Kaboul

03 van Aanholt

06 Cattermole Booked

11 Johnson Booked (Fletcher – 45′ )

21 M’Vila

20 Toivonen (Larsson – 70′ )

17 Lens

09 Borini

Substitutes

07 Larsson

14 Jordi Gómez

18 Defoe

22 Coates

24 Yedlin

25 Mannone

26 Fletcher

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