#high-scoring-match

#high-scoring-match

The full Boxing Day fixture list for England's top flight reads as follows: Manchester United v Newcastle United And that's it. So much for tradition. And yet! Never mind! Because this game could feasibly end up with a scoreline that would slot seamlessly into that 1963 results service, an ersatz pastiche of English football's most famous festive feelgood farrago. Kick-off is at 8pm GMT. It's on!

Of course, we take many positives from the game, but the feeling is not the best, as you would expect,

Seventeen minutes in and after a spell of prolonged possession on the edge of the Fulham box, Jeremy Doku got in behind Kenny Tete and pulled back a cross. Fulham had enough men across the six-yard box, but a dummy from Tijjani Reijnders sold both centre-halves and Haaland reacted to punch the ball through a sprawling Leno and into the net. A calm celebration followed, arms quietly aloft, but it was quite the achievement.