Luke Shaw

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The Manchester United Chronicle

21 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

Senne Lammens keeps Manchester United in it on his own

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 12 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.

Match

Manchester United refuse to drop out of the race

Position 3, 34 points, and the result everyone checks first is now theirs. The word is still not being said around the ground, which is how you know everyone is thinking it.

Player ratings

Youri Tielemans was immovable

28 times he got in the way of something. Centre-halves get written about when they make mistakes and ignored when they do not, so an afternoon like this needs saying out loud: he is the reason the scoreline reads as it does.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Bryan Mbeumo

Successful dribbles: 24. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Match

Nobody wants to play Manchester United right now

3 wins in a row changes how opponents warm up: quieter, more glances across. Runs end, everybody knows that — but nobody in this dressing room is planning for it.

Player ratings

Matthijs de Ligt was immovable

20 times he got in the way of something. Centre-halves get written about when they make mistakes and ignored when they do not, so an afternoon like this needs saying out loud: he is the reason the scoreline reads as it does.

Match

Marcus Rashford the difference as Manchester United beat Chelsea

Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Marcus Rashford. 1‑0 against Chelsea, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.

Squad

Tyler Dibling in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Manchester United this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Player ratings

Nothing got past Luke Shaw

Headers, blocks, tackles, interceptions — 18 of them, and not one goal behind him. The sort of performance that never makes a highlight reel and wins football matches.

In brief

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The Manchester United Chronicle

30 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Shea Lacey keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Manchester United may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

Squad

Tempers go at Manchester United

Marcus Rashford was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.

Market

Lisandro Martínez wants European nights

The general version of this complaint is that a player wants more. The specific version names the thing: he wants to walk out under floodlights against clubs from other countries, and he has stopped pretending otherwise.

Player ratings

Matheus Cunha runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 19. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Player ratings

Nothing got past Matthijs de Ligt

Headers, blocks, tackles, interceptions — 19 of them, and not one goal behind him. The sort of performance that never makes a highlight reel and wins football matches.

Player ratings

Nothing got past Luke Shaw

16 defensive actions and a clean sheet at the end of them. A defender's afternoon can only be told by what did not happen, which is why nobody makes a highlights package out of one and every manager in the division would take it.

Squad

Joshua Zirkzee falls out with a teammate over standards

The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.

Squad

Lisandro Martínez dropped after a run of poor form

The one version of being left out a player cannot argue with, and the one he takes worst. Somebody else has been better and the team sheet says so, in public, every week until it changes.

Match

Manchester United draw a blank against Newcastle United

The crowd waited for a goal that never came. Newcastle United defended in numbers and left with what they came for, and the two sides could be playing still without troubling a scorer.

In brief