Manchester United were embarrassed by a rampant Everton at Goodison Park as their top-four chances were dealt a significant blow.
Match Report
Everton compounded a miserable few days for Manchester United with their biggest ever Premier League win over the sorry Red Devils in a 4-0 rout at Goodison Park.
Just five days on from crashing out of the Champions League quarter-finals at the hands of Barcelona, Ole Gunnar Solskjaer's side produced a dismal performance to slump to another heavy defeat.
Well-taken goals from Richarlison and Gylfi Sigurdsson had the Toffees 2-0 up at the break before Lucas Digne's sweetly struck effort and Theo Walcott's cool finish completed a memorable win.
United are two points off fourth but will be three adrift if Arsenal overcome Crystal Palace and the inquest will surely soon begin after a nightmare outing that strikes a huge blow to their hopes of featuring at Europe's top table next season.
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11' CHANCE! Richarlison's shot saved
Great chance for Everton to take thea lead, but Richarlison is denied by a superb stop by De Gea. The ball falls perfectly to Richarlison on the edge of the six yard box and the striker turns and fires a low shot towards the near post.
However, it's not close enough to the corner of the net and De Gea gets a hand to it. Richarlison then can't sort his feet out quickly enough as the rebound falls to him and he lashes the ball wide.
13' GOAL! Everton 1-0 Man Utd (Richarlison)
Richarlison doesn't miss this time, Everton lead 1-0! It comes from a long throw-in by Digne, which is flicked on by Calvert-Lewin and Richarlison produces an acrobatic volley to fire the ball past De Gea and into the back of the net.
20' CHANCE! Rashford's shot over the bar
Pogba with a lovely ball over the top of the Everton defence and Rashford found a gap, he then tried to lob he ball over Pickford from a tight angle, but he can't get it to come down quickly enough and it flies over the crossbar.
28' GOAL! Everton 2-0 Man Utd (Sigurdsson)
Everton double their lead, it's 2-0! Wonderful strike by Sigurdsson to put the hosts further ahead. It comes from a United corner, Everton break away quickly on the counter, it comes out to Sigurdsson, who cuts inside from the left and lines up a shot from 30 yards out, which flies straight into the bottom corner.
56' GOAL! Everton 3-0 Man Utd (Digne)
Digne with a phenomenal strike from the edge of the penalty area. It comes from a corner that was headed clear to the left-back, he smashes the ball into the bottom corner from 25 yards out. That's surely the three points wrapped up now!
64' GOAL! Everton 4-0 Man Utd (Walcott)
Everton make it 4-0! Walcott races through on goal between Smalling and Lindelof, the pass is perfect by Sigurdsson and Walcott just has De Gea to beat, slotting the ball underneath the United keeper and into the back of the net.
70' CLOSE! Martial's shot wide out
Martial manages to find space down the left, cuts inside and get to the penalty spot, but fires his shot wide. He should be doing better from there.