Simon Stone
BBC Sport’s chief football news reporter
Image source, getEven Manchester United’s own social media team nearly gave up.
The drive for interactions is intense at every Premier League club on match nights, but sometimes, there doesn’t seem to be much point.
“Probably an obvious winner but the poll’s open regardless,” was the notification United pushed through about 10 minutes after the final whistle had sounded on their 3-1 success over Southampton.
They knew, as anyone in the stadium did, who the man of the match would be.
Amad Diallo was not even off the pitch at that point. After grabbing the match ball and acknowledging the adulation of all four sides of Old Trafford, the Ivorian was dragged to the portable broadcast table quickly erected pitchside to talk about his momentous achievement, equalising eight minutes from the end of what had been a tepid performance before scoring twice in stoppage time to give United victory.
“[It is] maybe one of the best weeks in my life,” Diallo told TNT after scoring his first senior hat-trick.
“We believed until the end and are happy to win this game. We drew with Arsenal and Liverpool so the confidence was there.”
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