Manchester United capped off their international tour on Saturday morning vs Aston Villa.
The Red Devils had already seen off Liverpool, Melbourne Victory and Crystal Palace so far this month and were expected to make it four from four on Saturday.
Erik ten Hag opted for a very strong starting line-up, with Scott McTominay one of the few enforced changes.
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And not too surprisingly, it was Man United who took the lead after just 25 minutes.
It was an excellent team goal that was eventually finished off by Jadon Sancho.
However, whilst Sancho scored and Luke Shaw provided the assist, it is another Manchester United star who has received the bulk of the praise post-goal.
That man is Anthony Martial, who has seen his link-up play heavily praised on social media, with just some of the reaction shown below:
Martial hold up and link up play 👌🏽
— MUFCPoni 🇨🇦 (@MufcPoni) July 23, 2022
Martial connecting the dot from midfield
— Ore (@OreOluwa_91) July 23, 2022
As long as Martial is cooking our attackers are gonna feast… THE GLUE
— ToTo (@UTDkingsley) July 23, 2022
This Martial link up play >>>>>
— chez slan (@simple_slan) July 23, 2022
Martial is the glue man
— _ambush._ (@shadyUTD) July 23, 2022
martial is so good
— Champion (@IAMADDINGTON) July 23, 2022
rashford, martial and sancho are combining well. martial is such an important link up focal point, baller
— Io (@ianopolot) July 23, 2022
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