MANCHESTER UNITED WERE in danger of losing their fourth league game of the season before their Belgian teenager Adnan Januzaj came to the rescue.
Trailing 1 — 0 to Sunderland, midway through the second half, and the young midfielder stepped up with two superb goals. He steered home a Patrice Evra cross to level the tie before crisply volleying home from just inside the Black Cats’ box.
The goal gave United a much-needed 2 — 1 win and moved David Moyes’ men into the top half of the table. Here are the Januzaj goals:
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Speaking to Sky Sports after the game, United midfielder Michael Carrick praised his young teammate’s goalscoring contribution.
He said, “I was talking to him at half-time and told him to get into the box more as there were chances and [it lead to] two great chances for him that he finished well.”
“He can be anything he wants to be, really,” Carrick added. “He’s that good.”
United boss David Moyes likened Januzaj to Wayne Rooney and Ross Barkley, both of whom he gave debuts to as Everton manager and revealed he wanted to give the Belgian his full debut earlier in the season.
Surely only a matter of time now before it’s BT Thomond Park, BT Ravenhill, etc…
Only a matter of time too before they buy the full premier league package. Next we will see croke park renamed sky sports croke park arena.
If you are going to rename your stadium I guess keeping the original name and sticking the letters BT before is probably the least offensive option….
I’d nearly sponsor the Edinburgh team to not play their home games in Murrayfield! Absolutely dead atmosphere which takes away from the games played there! I can’t explain why it annoys me so much but it does!!
Yea, should be played in a much smaller venue.
Good news for the rabo, we need the Scottish union to be financially secure and able to finance two quality teams to the league to keep things competitive. There’s even talk of a third Scottish club opening in Aberdeen, which would be great.
I don’t care about stadium naming rights,but this nauseating ‘Sponsor X’s values and ethics really align with our own’ PR bullshit is just the worst kind of nonsense.
There was an article in the times last November saying BT were in advanced negotiations with the Irish provinces too over forms of sponsorship like shirts etc. the welsh & Scottish BT deals were mentioned in the sane article. Will be interesting to see if there is an announcement in this regard in the coming weeks.
BT Thomand park?? They can BT feck off!!
Great news for Scottish rugby and for the Pro12 to have the finances to keep Glasgow competitive and help to improve Edinburgh. I just hope the long term knock on effect isn’t the devaluing of the Pro12 brand to SKY Sports if/ when it comes time to review the broadcasting agreement, as potentially SKY money could be the making or breaking of the league when it comes to competing with the English and French equivalents.
Fair play to them, I never understand some of the negativity about naming rights. Like when Musgrave park was renamed Irish Independent park the paper got slated rather than praised for supporting the game
I’d prefer Sky across the Leinster jersey than a bankrupt state owned Bank!