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Follow live updates from Burnley's trip to Manchester United as the Carabao Cup returns following the 2022 FIFA World Cup.

120 mins from kickoff: Hello and welcome to The Sporting News' coverage of Manchester United's return to competitive action for the first time in almost six weeks. [#CarabaoCup] [pic.twitter.com/ANkMo4ymmu] [December 21, 2022] [#CarabaoCup] [pic.twitter.com/vYuub8EIu7] [December 21, 2022] [pic.twitter.com/zZ2ZhyzdsB] [December 21, 2022] [#CarabaoCup] [December 21, 2022] [pic.twitter.com/tXka2tTfmd] [December 21, 2022] 53 mins: Positive reaction from United, as Rashford holds it up and slips in McTominay, but his curled effort is well wide. [pic.twitter.com/1cotFeJUPR] [December 21, 2022] [pic.twitter.com/tM5uHVOkwL] [December 21, 2022] [#CarabaoCup] [pic.twitter.com/l0LRvzWZW5] [December 21, 2022] 0 2

Clockwatch: Join Scott Murray for updates from the League Cup fourth-round tie at Old Trafford.

Burnley are looking to win their first major trophy since they became champions of England in 1960. [Manchester United](https://www.theguardian.com/football/manchester-united) are in their famous red shirts, forcing Burnley out of their trademark claret and into second-choice sky blue. A reminder that they’ve already played two games since the post-World Cup restart, while United are going into tonight’s match cold. Garnacho nearly picking up where he left off at Fulham just before the break. 9 min: A one-on-one chance for Garnacho at Old Trafford … 12 min: Of course this MBM is more of a Clockwatch now, which inevitably means slightly reduced coverage of the United-Burnley game. He slightly miscontrols as he reaches the edge of the 19 min: Garnacho is clipped over as he makes his way down the left. The ball’s rolled infield for Brownhill, who tries to round Casemiro in order to enter the box. The ball ricochets off Rashford and loops back over the keeper’s head and towards the unguarded net. He takes his eye off a backpass and allows the ball to trundle under his foot and towards the open goal. “I’m struggling to think of a club that’s changed an entrenched style so radically from one season to the next.”

Aaron Wan-Bissaka's horizontal assist for Christian Eriksen's opener against Burnley marked the right-back's first competitive start of the season for ...

"Today, he had no right to get that ball but he got there anyway and it was a good ball across. "About his movement, the timing and a great pass from Bruno. "He's a massively important player," stated the forward.

Manchester United dedicated 81-words to Cristiano Ronaldos Old Trafford exit in their Burnley matchday programme; United beat Burnley 2-0 to reach the ...

He will go on and play football elsewhere and hopefully do really well, and Manchester United can move on under Erik ten Hag." Ten Hag was asked about Ronaldo's exit in his post-match press conference following the victory and said: "I gave you all the opportunity, many of you were in Spain. "The only thing Manchester United could do was draw a line under the Ronaldo affair," Neville told Sky Sports.

Manchester United gave Cristiano Ronaldo a less than glittering send-off - with an 81-word segment hidden in their matchday programme.The Portuguese s.

“We made the statement, we look to the future.” It read: “Cristiano Ronaldo left the club by mutual agreement last month. As a result, the 37-year-old’s future at the club was untenable, leading to him leave under a dark cloud.

In the League Cup, Manchester United took their first bold steps into a Ronaldo-free future.

In the long run, we're guessing that Haaland before the World Cup and Haaland after the World Cup will look much the same, to the eye and in the data. [rise of women's football](https://globalsportmatters.com/culture/2022/12/21/beyond-qatar-world-cup-womens-football-growing-middle-east-north-africa/)in the Middle East and North Africa: "The success of the Morocco women’s team was no accident. PSG in the Women's Champions League. As Greece knew all too well: he'd scored more or less the same free-kick in Athens a few months before. It's not that he's tall enough to disrupt air traffic or strong enough to snap a lamppost in half. And while comparing awards across years is not exactly fair, given that some years have major tournaments and others do not, this award feels more like the one that Bobby Moore picked up in 1966 - the shining light of a shining team - as opposed to Michael Owen's 'nice goal' award in 1998, or the 'well done, you've been going ages' nod that Ryan Giggs picked up in 2009. At the very least, it means Ten Hag and his team aren't trying to do their work in an atmosphere of febrile hostility, and that's probably constructive. No, not the fixture congestion. And England cleaned up elsewhere, taking Team of the Year, while Sarina Wiegman was named Coach of the Year. Marcus Rashford seems the obvious choice, and here he scored perhaps the best goal of his career, a slithering run from deep in his own half that unzipped Burnley entirely, capped with a dismissive finish into the side netting. Not even in the conversation. Anyway, this now puts United in a slightly unusual position: a soap opera in search of a main character.