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Dialuna 30 augustus 2021

Greenwood's goals well timed before Ronaldo's United return

(AP) — Mason Green- teammate of Ronaldo's at when Ronaldo left United
wood is making sure Man- Real Madrid, on the defend- in 2009. In fact, half of the
chester United doesn't ne- er's United debut. teams currently in the Pre-
glect his scoring abilities mier League were not in the
when Cristiano Ronaldo But it is the frenzy over Ron- top flight when he completed
returns. aldo's unexpected return to a third title-winning season
Old Trafford that has lit up before heading off to Madrid.
The 19-year-old striker — this transfer window, with Now the 36-year-old Ronal-
who is almost half Ronaldo's the 36-year-old star complet- do is rejoining from Juventus
age — has now scored in all ing his move ready for a sec- in an attempt to help United
three matches for United at ond debut after the interna- win its first Premier League
the start of the season. tional break. title since 2013.

The latest goal ensured an United is in need of in- "Cristiano he's evolved as a
underwhelming United per- creased firepower up front. player, he used to play wide
formance at Wolverhampton While Greenwood's first goal right, wide left, up front, he's
still ended in a 1-0 victory of the campaign was in a 5-1 more of a center forward
on Sunday. It was set up by rout of Leeds, last week's was for me at the moment, defi-
Raphaël Varane, a former required to salvage a draw at Southampton. 1-0, the latest against Wat- nitely," United manager Ole
ford clinched by Son Heung- Gunnar Solskjaer said, speak-
The winner at Wolves only min's free kick — which beat ing to media for the first time
came in the 80th minute and goalkeeper Daniel Bachmann since Friday's announcement
after United required David — on his 200th Premier of Ronaldo's return.
De Gea's sensational double League appearance.
save with about 20 minutes "But there will be games
to go to thwart Romain Saïss. Burnley striker Chris Wood where we play with two up
"I think we were below (par) scored the 30,000th goal since front, three up front. I want
today, we didn't play too well," the inception of the Pre- him in the box, I want him
the goalkeeper said. "But it's a mier League in 1992 but the scoring goals. We've always
massive win for us." northwest club was denied a been watching Cristiano, that
first win of the season against one day he would move and
While United moved onto Leeds after Patrick Bamford we would be interested. We
seven points, the only team recovered a 1-1 draw. never thought that he was
with a perfect record after going to leave Juventus this
three games is Tottenham. Burnley had never even season, when he did we had
All three wins have been played in the Premier League to speak to him of course."