Man United vs Crystal Palace Premier League Saturday 30 September, 15:00 Old Trafford Full Time: 4 - 0 Four is our favourite number. Manchester United once again declared at this all-too-familiar number as they brushed aside a game but ultimately outclassed Crystal Palace who are continuing to create records, albeit unwanted ones, of their own with seven successive Premiership defeats and not a single goal in 630 minutes football. The south Londoners must have faced this second successive trip to Manchester with some foreboding and it took Marcus Rashford less than three minutes to cleverly pull the ball back for Juan Mata to open the scoring. The visitors did threaten on the odd occasion but were unable to capitalise on their rare openings and Ashley Young, continuing his excellent form of late, sent in another teasing ball from the left allowing Marouane Fellaini to finish at the far post. Could United match or even exceed the five-goal hammering poor Roy Hodgson's side suffered last weekend and certainly the signs were encouraging as Romelu Lukaku was busting a gut to add to his stunning 10 goal start to the campaign? As it turned out it was Fellaini who notched the third with a close-range effort and as the chances came and went it looked as though his Belgian teammate would miss out this time. But with four minutes to go, inevitably Lukaku had the final say when he tapped in his 11th goal in all competitions to send the Reds back to the top of the table, if only for a couple of hours. City's narrow but impressive win gave them the outright leadership once more and with Tottenham brilliant again on the road it will be interesting to see if they can offer a challenge to the two title favourites who have now established a five-point margin over the rest. Commentary by Lew Fink