After Brandon Williams was brought down in the area, just before the break, Martial sent keeper Vladimir Stojkovic the wrong way to bring to an end a streak of 11 games without a win on the road. With trips to Norwich on Sunday, Chelsea next Wednesday and Bournemouth on Saturday week, it was a very welcome three points and hopefully a change of fortunes for United away from home.
This was the first match in the double-header with Partizan, who sat level in the table on four points with the Reds at kick-off. It was only the second time the Reds' senior squad had been back in the Serbian capital since the Busby Babes played their last match together here before that fateful night in Munich in 1958.