Manchester United continue their rise with a great victory at Villa Park

manchester united took a big step towards securing European football next season as Scott McTominay's goal in the 86th minute gave them a 2-1 victory Aston Villa in just their second home loss of the entire season.

The Scottish midfielder showed great desire to intimidate the defender so that he finished off with a header from the six-yard box, after good work from both Diogo Dalot and Kobe Mainoofor his seventh league goal of the campaign.

He returned to United the advantage that he had initially given them hojlund, who scored in his fifth consecutive Premier League game, reacting quickly to the second ball in the penalty area to slot in between Emi Martinez legs after 17 minutes.

André Onana was called upon to make big saves like Erik Ten Hag's Men The goal was to withstand the pressure throughout the match, as Villa woke up after losing a goal and quickly took control of the match.

But he and his defense were finally overtaken with just over 20 minutes left. Luis tied after terrible United defending. The defense had to face a corner but could not clear the ball and when the second cross arrived, Luiz was available from close range. to turn it into the upper right part of the goal.

Ten Hag sub works

Villa continued to create chances and the Dutch United coach realized that he had something to do if they wanted to get even a point in the match between fifth and sixth place in the league and McTominay entered.

Perhaps he wasn't expected to score, but that's exactly what he did 13 minutes after coming on to send the away team into ecstasy and deliver three big points to the Old Trafford team, who move five points behind Villa and four points behind Tottenham Hotspur in last place in the Champions League.