Traore's beautiful goal only infuriates Red Devils

It was 1995 when Manchester United were last defeated at Villa Park in a Premier League match. Villains will have to wait a bit longer for such an epilogue.

Only one loss for the Red Devils in Birmingham in 45 matches (W33, D11, L1) - today's score 1-3 in a second-half comeback.

Guests, who have a busy schedule ahead of them, dominated from the start. They wanted to open up with a quick goal and bring the game to a close as soon as possible.

Chances were piling up in front of Emiliano Martinez's goal - Luke Shaw in the 6th minute, Paul Pogba in the 7th and Fred in the 9th - the Argentine goalkeeper came out victorious in all of those duels.

Marcus Rashford tried in the 16th minute but his effort was not accurate enough while Mason Greenwood's attempt in the 22nd minute was blocked by Villa's defenders.

Quite a shocker came 2 minutes later - Burkinabe Bertrand Traore produced a beautiful individual effort and ended it with a superb strike from inside the box. Dean Henderson was just a bystander as the ball flew into the top right corner.

Traoré is only the third Aston Villa player to score home and away against Manchester United in a Premier League season, after Julian Joachim in 1998-99 and Christian Benteke in 2014-15.

For the tenth time this season, Manchester United have conceded the opening goal in an away Premier League game. However, the Red Devils are yet to lose on their travels when doing so, winning nine and drawing one of the last ten games.

After the goal, Man United gravitated completely to towards Villa's half. Rashford and Greenwood had an attempt each before the first half ended but Martinez kept his net unshaken.

Ollie Watkins tried doubling Villa's lead in the 46th minute - visitor's goalie Dean Henderson made a confidence-boosting save.

Villa opened the second period well with an opportunity for Dutch forward Anwar El-Ghazi. His ferocious strike from the edge of the box towards the bottom right corner was blocked by Henderson, who pulled off a superb save to keep the ball out of the net.

Manchester United finally equalized in the 53rd minute through a successful penalty by Bruno Fernandes.

Fernandes has scored 27 goals for Manchester United in all competitions this season, the most by a midfield player for a Premier League club in a single campaign since Frank Lampard for Chelsea in 2009-10 (also 27).

This penalty was the 113th taken in this season's Premier League, breaking the all-time competition record of 112 previously set in 2006-07.

It took only 4 minutes for United to turn it completely around. Aaron Wan-Bissaka produced a sweet pass and picked out Greenwood inside the box. The youngster quickly took a shot which went into the bottom right corner and left Martinez helpless.

Traore tried to level in the 81st and the 84th minute to level, but his attempts lacked power so Henderson made two easy saves.

Edinson Cavani came into play in the 65th minute and continued his great form by scoring ibn the 88th. Rashford assisted Cavani as the Uruguayan sent an accurate header into the bottom left corner.

Cavani has equaled the Manchester United record for the highest number of Premier League goals scored as a substitute in a season, currently held by Chicharito in 2010-11 and Ole Gunnar Solskjær in 1998-99 (5 each).

The Red Devils are on an incredible unbeaten run of 25 PL away games (W16, D9). They can only hope Manchester City will fail to collect one more point by the end of the Premier League campaign in order for the trophy to arrive to Old Trafford.

United hold 70 points to their name and expect another match in two days.

PREMIER LEAGUE - ROUND 35

Friday

Leicester - Newcastle 2-4 (0-2)

/Albrighton 80, Iheanacho 87 - Willock 22, Dummett 34, Wilson 64, 73/

Saturday

Leeds - Tottenham 3-1 (2-1)

/Dallas 13, Bamford 42, Rodrigo 84 - Son 25/

Sheffield United - Crystal Palace 0-2 (0-1)

/Benteke 2, Eze 88/

Manchester City - Chelsea 1-2 (1-0)

/Sterling 44 - Ziyech 63, Alonso 90+3/

Liverpool - Southampton 2-0 (1-0)

/Mane 31, Thiago 90/

Sunday

Wolves - Brighton 2-1 (0-1)

/Traore 76', Gibbs-White 90' - Dunk 13'/

Aston Villa - Manchester United 1-3 (1-0)

/Traore 24' - Fernandes 52' pen, Greenwood 56', Cavani 88'/

18.30: West Ham - Everton

21.00: Arsenal - West Brom

Monday

22.00: Fulham - Burnley