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BRUNO FERNANDES DOUBLE: MAN UTD THUMP WOLVES 4-1; OWNERS FACE FAN FURY

Bruno Fernandes scored twice as Man Utd defeated struggling Wolves 4-1 amidst fierce fan protests against the owners (Fosun/Jeff Shi). United climb to sixth.

Bruno Fernandes Double: Man Utd Thump Wolves 4-1; Owners Face Fan Fury
Fernandes, Mount, Mbeumo seal 4-1 win for United.

Bruno Fernandes scored twice, helping Manchester United win after Wolves' bad season continued with a 4-1 loss at Molineux. The game happened during a protest.

Ruben Amorim was not happy after their draw with West Ham, and probably wasn't pleased with his players in the middle of the game.

Fernandes put United ahead, but Wolves' Jean-Ricner Bellegarde scored their first Premier League goal since October 26 because of weak defending.

Whatever Amorim said at halftime worked, as Bryan Mbeumo, Mason Mount, and Fernandes all scored for United, while world darts champion Luke Littler watched.

United is now sixth, while Rob Edwards's team is last with only two points from 15 games.

Wolves fans were angry with their players and wanted the owners, Fosun, and chair Jeff Shi to leave. Many fans came late to protest.

The fans who were there booed former player Matheus Cunha and saw Sam Johnstone stop Diogo Dalot early on.

The goalkeeper also saved a shot from Mbeumo. Fans chanted against the owners, saying, "You've sold the team; now sell the club," and sang about the players.

Wolves let United score in the 25th minute when Andre lost the ball to Casemiro, and Fernandes scored after getting a pass from Cunha.

The fans were angry and almost saw United score again, but Johnstone stopped Mbeumo, and Cunha's shot was cleared.

United kept attacking, and Diallo's shot was deflected wide by Agbadou, who also had a handball check by VAR.

The fans groaned as Wolves' attack struggled, and United gave up a goal in stoppage time when David Moller Wolfe passed to Bellegarde.

That was a rare goal for Wolves, and they didn't have much to celebrate after that.

United's players talked before the second half and played with more energy. Six minutes later, they took the lead.

Luke Shaw's strong challenge on Bellegarde started a counterattack. Cunha passed to Dalot, who passed to Mbeumo, who scored into an empty net.

United was relieved, and they scored again in the 62nd minute when Fernandes passed to Mount.

The Wolves goalkeeper saved a shot from Fernandes before both managers made changes, including Jorgen Strand Larsen being taken off to cheers from the fans. The striker didn't like the reaction.

Fernandes had a free kick deflected over the bar, but soon scored again.

Yerson Mosquera was called for handling a Diallo shot, and the referee gave a penalty, which Fernandes scored in the 82nd minute.

The fans booed when nine minutes of added time were announced. They booed even louder at the final whistle.

EX-CAPTAIN NEVILLE CLAIMS SUBSTITUTIONS MADE MANCHESTER UNITED "WORSE" AGAINST WOLVES

Gary Neville slams Ruben Amorim’s "weird" substitutions and tactical shifts after Manchester United's 1-1 draw with bottom-side Wolves.

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Was the halftime substitution a tactical error or an injury?

Gary Neville said that the performance of Manchester United in their match against winless Wolves was ‘the baddest of the bad.’

United would have moved fourth in the league with a win at Old Trafford last night, although Wolves, who had two points in 18 games before kickoff, ended their record of 11 straight losses with a 1-1 draw.

Amorim’s team had been knocked out of the Carabao Cup by a League Two team, Grimsby, in August, but Neville was convinced that United had hit rock bottom in a game that could have been even more one-sided were it not for two important saves by Senne Lammens.

“That was the baddest of the bad," the former United captain declared on the Gary Neville podcast.

“They weren’t just booed off at the final whistle. The fans waited in the stadium to continue to boo them. They’ve gone backwards.”

United had won at Newcastle 1-0 on Boxing Day, despite being plagued by an injury list that already lacked skipper Bruno Fernandes, Harry Maguire, and Matthijs de Ligt, as well as three players on African Cup of Nations duty.

But they remained flat right from the first whistle, and the header by Ladislav Krejci just before the half bottled Joshua Zirkzee's deflected shot.

Amorim’s formation choice of 3-4-3 was brought into focus once more as the Portuguese opted to go back to his preferred tactic of four at the back against Newcastle.

“This isn’t right. I’ve watched enough of United over the last five or six weeks to know what looks right and what isn’t right,” Neville had declared 20 minutes into his commentary on Sky Sports.

“Because, when I see that we go back (to three at the back) after five minutes tonight, I’m thinking, no, Ruben, why have you done that?

"The manager has to look at that and think, I got that wrong. I complicated it."

However, Amorim decided to substitute Zirkzee at halftime and brought on an 18-year-old Jack Fletcher, who made his third appearance at the senior level.

Regarding substitutions made by Amorim, Neville further added, “They made Manchester United worse. Every single substitution was ridiculous.”

‘If Zirkzee was injured, and it was a tactical substitution, that was a very poor one.’ But Zirkzee isn't Eric Cantona, not by a long shot, and he had to get out there for physicality, for presence, for experience.”

SEE LISANDRO MARTINEZ’S FURIOUS REACTION AFTER MAN UTD’S SHOCK WOLVES DRAW

Lisandro Martinez demands more after Man Utd’s 1-1 draw with bottom-placed Wolves. United ended 2025 sixth in the Premier League.

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Martinez slams United’s tactical mistakes

Stand-in captain Lisandro Martinez was mad that Manchester United dropped points against Wolves, who are at the bottom of the league.

United came into the last game of 2025 after a good win against Newcastle on Boxing Day and were expected to easily beat Wolves.

Joshua Zirkzee scored first for United, but they didn't take their chances. Ladislav Krejci's header tied the game for Wolves, 1-1.

It was only their third point in 19 games, and it stopped their 11-game losing streak. United fans booed at the end of the game.

When Martinez was asked if it felt like a disappointing point, he said, 100 percent.

We are very disappointed. We can't keep drawing or losing points at home. We have to win.

We want to be at the top, competing with the best.

We can't drop points in games like this. We just have to accept it and be hungry for the next game.

Martinez was captain again because Bruno Fernandes is still recovering from an injury.

When United coach Ruben Amorim was asked about injured players for the game against Leeds on Sunday, he didn't give much away. Leeds are really wanting to beat United for the first time since 2010.

Martinez said to MUTV, You can either make excuses, or you can be strong and say, 'We're dropping points, so we need to go for the next one and show what we can do.'

We need to work together and do the easy things to get the three points.

United is in sixth place in the league at the end of 2025, only two points behind Liverpool for the last Champions League spot. Liverpool has a game in hand.

They could be in a better position if they had been better in both boxes. Leeds has been playing well lately, with Dominic Calvert-Lewin doing great up front.

Martinez added, It's about us. I don't like to think about other teams.

I'm thinking about what we can do to get better as a team every day, and we have to learn from this game.

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