Nine facts to remember about United Chelsea match

Manchester United put four passed Chelsea Sunday in their season opener and here are nine facts to remember:

•  Manchester United registered their fifth consecutive opening day league victory – their longest such run since winning six in a row between 1905-06 and 1910-11

•  United earned their biggest over Chelsea in a top-flight match since winning 4-0 in March 1965 under Matt Busby

•  Since his debut, Anthony Martial has scored 49 goals in all competitions for Manchester United – more than any other player

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•  Marcus Rashford has taken four penalties during his senior career for club and country and scored all four – two for England (vs Colombia and Netherlands) and two for Man Utd (vs PSG and Chelsea)

•  There were just 95 seconds between Manchester United’s second and third goals

•  This was Chelsea’s heaviest ever opening-day league defeat in what is their 104th league season

•  Frank Lampard suffered the heaviest defeat by a Chelsea manager in his first match in charge since Danny Blanchflower lost 7-2 to Middlesbrough in December 1978

•  This was Lampard’s heaviest defeat in the Premier League since he featured for the full 90 minutes in West Ham United’s 1-7 defeat to Manchester United at Old Trafford in April 2000

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•  The last manager before Lampard to lose by four or more goals in his first Premier League match in charge was Gustavo Poyet in October 2013 (Swansea City 4-0 Sunderland