Fernandes, Manchester United crush Wolves, go sixth on ladder

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Manchester United are conscionable a constituent distant from a top-4 spot connected the Premier League ladder aft thrashing Wolverhampton.

Published On 9 Dec 2025

Manchester United climbed to sixth successful the Premier League connected Monday arsenic skipper Bruno Fernandes scored doubly to assistance them assertion a comfy 4-1 triumph astatine bottommost nine Wolverhampton Wanderers, whose calamitous play grows bleaker by the week.

Dispirited Wolves fans spent astir of the archetypal fractional chanting successful protestation astatine the club’s Chinese owners, Fosun, and their temper worsened erstwhile Fernandes gave United a 25th-minute lead.

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To their credit, Wolves showed immoderate enterprise, and they were cheered disconnected astatine half-time aft Haiti planetary Jean-Ricner Bellegarde fired location an equaliser successful stoppage time.

Bryan Mbeumo restored United’s pb with a tap-in aft 52 minutes, and Mason Mount’s composed decorativeness made it 3-1 conscionable past the hr mark. Fernandes completed the occupation for United with a punishment aft VAR spotted a handball.

When 9 minutes of stoppage clip were announced, the Wolves fans inactive wrong Molineux booed and sang “blow the whistle”.

Ruben Amorim’s United person 25 points from 15 games, portion Wolves’ club-record eighth successive league defeat, and 13th of the season, near them marooned connected 2 points and successful information of mounting immoderate unwanted Premier League history.

Their tally of points is the joint-lowest aft 15 games successful the past of England’s apical 4 tiers, and they are without a league triumph since April, losing 16 and drafting 3 since.

Wolves are present 13 points from the information zone, and the speech is not whether they volition beryllium capable to equine an flight bid but whether they tin surpass the lowest-ever Premier League points haul of Derby County, who managed lone 11 successful 2007-08.

United looking up

While Wolves are looking down, United are opening to look up, and portion determination were times successful the archetypal fractional erstwhile they looked vulnerable, their second-half show was silky.

They ended up with 27 extremity attempts, the astir since Amorim took charge, and could person won by a larger margin.

“Attacking with freedom. I thought immoderate of the combinations going guardant were crisp, were sharp, and that’s what we tin do,” said Mount, who dispatched a saccharine first-time volley from Fernandes’s chipped shot into the area.

Fernandes had opened the scoring by scooping a changeable past Sam Johnstone successful the Wolves extremity contempt falling over.

United mislaid immoderate control, though, and Wolves levelled conscionable earlier the interval erstwhile Bellegarde fired location aft David Moller Wolfe’s changeable had bounced into his path.

It was the archetypal extremity Wolves had scored successful 540 minutes, but aft a little burst of joy, the gloom erstwhile again descended successful the 2nd fractional erstwhile Diogo Dalot squared for Mbeumo to score.

After Mount’s goal, Fernandes bagged his 2nd of the nighttime with a typically assured punishment aft Yerson Mosquera was adjudged by VAR to person handled a goal-bound shot.

Wolves were jeered disconnected and manager Rob Edwards, who replaced Vítor Pereira past month, said helium could not blasted them.

“There was an choler successful the stadium. The lads are trying. The supporters are angry, and I get it,” helium said.

“It’s the toughest league successful the world, and we came into a squad who hadn’t won since April. I wasn’t anticipating a speedy turnaround.”

With a travel to Premier League leaders Arsenal next, things are apt to get worse earlier they get amended for the Midlands club.