Rasmus Hojlund shone as Manchester United came from behind to defeat Bodo/Glimt 3-2 in Ruben Amorim's first home match. Amorim made six changes from the side that drew with Ipswich at the weekend, as Lisandro Martinez, Manuel Ugarte, Tyrell Malacia, Mason Mount, Antony and Hojlund all came into the line up.
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00:00Rich Fay here from Manchester World where today is Manchester United 3, Bodo Glimp 2.
00:06Ruben Atmarine reports his first victory as Manchester United head coach in his first match here at Old Trafford.
00:14United, well it was a chaotic game. They scored within a minute and a half on Portland Road.
00:20It was 48 seconds at Old Trafford here tonight. They pressed high against a Bodo Glimp team
00:26who ran well, who could win the Norwegian League on Sunday, backed by fantastic supporters.
00:33Six and a half thousand of them and they were loud inside Old Trafford.
00:37They weren't in the silence. Like I said, we've got a natural game tonight.
00:40United were leading within a minute. Rasmus Hoylund, who was United's best player on the night,
00:43pressed high, forced the air up to the goalkeeper and got a natural tactic from close range.
00:48But this is Manchester United and they don't do things easily, do they?
00:51Bodo Glimp scored twice in space for four minutes to turn the game on its head.
00:55The first was a superb strike from the edge of the box.
00:58The second, well, Tyrone Glacier, who was starting his first Manchester United game in about 550 days,
01:05he was exposed on the left-hand side. Matthijs de Ligt's positioning was poor as well
01:10and the finish was through the legs of André Leonhard.
01:13United's defence was sceptical all night really.
01:18They were at sixes and sevens, never looked too comfortable at the back and Bodo Glimp took advantage of that.
01:24But Manchester United responded. They got their equaliser on half-time.
01:28Rasmus Hoylund controlled the ball well in the bombs and put the ball into the bottom corner.
01:32United made changes at the break. Dalot came on for Tyrone Glacier, who had a really difficult game.
01:38He was poor but perhaps should not have been played in the first place by Amirim.
01:42United, though, took the lead early after the restart.
01:45Mason Mountley kicked the crossbar. He then played creative as United did get the third goal of the game.
01:51He flipped the ball to Emanuele Agathe out wide. His low cross was converted by Rasmus Hoylund.
01:56United had a 3-2 lead, which they did deserve quite full-time.
02:00There were opportunities to further that. Alejandro Garnaccio, as lively as he was, was wasteful again on the left-hand side.
02:07He cut the side on a couple of opportunities and fired a wide-up goal.
02:11Marcus Rashford as well from the bench could have scored a goal when he ran through and dribbled the net just wide in the far post.
02:20Towards the end, Bodo could have got an equaliser themselves.
02:23Andreo Nanna with some fantastic, unorthodox sweepers-keeper moments.
02:27He was racing up his line to stop some moves that looked dangerous.
02:31And right at the depth as well, Bodo had a free kick, which was saved by the Cavalier goalkeeper, to ensure that United did win 3-2.
02:38Their second victory in the Europa League this season.
02:40They should be well on course now to get into the next stage, whether that is a top-eight finish or whether they have to go through the fourth round.
02:47Ruben Amiri, well he has his first win for Manchester United this year.
02:50The challenges will get harder in the coming weeks.
02:53They have obviously got Everton here at home on Sunday.
02:55Arsenal away next Wednesday night.
02:57And Nottingham Forest with surprise packages at home a week on Saturday.
03:02Full-time, more traffic.
03:03Manchester United 3-0, Bodo 2-0.
03:05Hoyland, Mason Mountain and Nusab Ahmad Zawahiri, the three stand-up players for Manchester United.
03:11And not to forget though, Tyrone Melasia on his long-awaited return to action.