3 reasons why Manchester United won against Newcastle United

#1 Paul Pogba leads the way

Manchester United v Newcastle United - Premier League — Pogboom

Paul Pogba has been quite consistent this season. United's defence is poor but Pogba looks more settled than ever in a Manchester United shirt. And what a matured performance this was. The one feature of almost all of United's high scoring games is Pogba's ventures into the opposition's box.

As soon as Pogba gets the ball inside the box, he takes away 3 or 4 players and opens up huge spaces. This is exactly what worked for the 2nd and 3rd goal. Of course, there is the undeniable quality to boast- that backheel to set Martial up was a thing of beauty as was the holdup play and flick to Young for United's third.

When Paul Pogba takes games by the scruff of its neck, Manchester United are difficult to stop. And if he can keep bringing his A-game for Jose Mourinho's Red Army, United can still turn this season around.

It is time to be fearless. United haven't got much to lose and they should come unshackled and play top quality football like they can.

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Shambhu is a European and international football journalist at Sportskeeda who focuses on previews, listicles and news articles. An ardent Manchester United supporter since before his teenage years, he started following the Red Devils by age 10 watching MUTV on television. Shambhu is also a highly-revered rapper and a playback singer on Spotify, having a whopping 1 million monthly listeners.

For his articles, Shambhu believes in triple-checking every piece of information, relying on trusted websites like Transfermarkt and Opta, and staying away from speculative publications. He believes that his law degree helped him to be more articulate and meticulous with his content and one of his core strengths is seamlessly involving emotion in his write-ups owing to the love for the sport. For Sportskeeda, has done exclusive interviews with Spanish legends Gaizka Mendieta and Fernando Morientes so far, and his articles boast of a huge readership of close to 50 million.

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