Just two days after his brace helped sink Newcastle United at Old Trafford, the France forward once again remained calm under pressure to slip Andreas Pereira’s through ball beyond Nick Pope after 44 minutes.
Rashford wrapped things up with a breakaway goal in injury time and Ole Gunnar Solskjaer’s men merited the three points after a mature team performance against a predictably physical home side.
Solskjaer opted to make four changes to the United side that came from behind to impressively defeat Newcastle 4-1 at Old Trafford just over 48 hours earlier.
Ashley Young and Brandon Williams were introduced in place of Aaron Wan-Bissaka and Luke Shaw at full-back, while Nemanja Matic started for the first time since the 2-0 defeat at West Ham in September, owing to the absence of the injured Scott McTominay and rested Paul Pogba.