Jonny Evans’ spouse shares emotional response to United’s comeback win

Belated although it might have been, Manchester United’s comeback win in opposition to Aston Villa on Boxing Day was the right Christmas current for his or her followers.

And few cherished the 3-2 win extra than Jonny Evans‘ nine-year-old daughter Lottie, who loved a Boxing Day to recollect.

‘Our nine-year-old simply stated: “that was the best Boxing Day I’ve ever had”,’ Helen Evans, the United’s centre-back spouse, posted on X, the platform beforehand often called Twitter.

The Northern Ireland worldwide returned to Old Trafford in the summertime eight years after leaving the membership, reuniting along with his spouse, who works for MUTV.

The couple began relationship in 2011 an tied the knot two years later, earlier than Evans left United to signal for West Bromwich in 2015. 

Jonny Evans (proper) celebrates Rasmus Hojlund’s late winner in opposition to Aston Villa on Boxing Day

Evans’ spouse Helen stated the comeback win in opposition to Villa was their nine-year-old daughter’s ‘finest Boxing Day ever’

His spouse  – nee McConnell – remained on the membership and was a part of the media staff working with United on their pre-season tour of the United States earlier this summer season. 

And Evans’ spouse then replied with a laughing emoji when Scott Patterson, a outstanding United blogger, responded to her preliminary publish with an image of her husband celebrating Federico Macheda’s damage time winner in opposition to Villa at Old Trafford in April 2009.

Making his senior debut, the Italian sealed a dramatic 3-2 win which in the end swung the momentum within the title race United’s approach after Liverpool had leapfrogged them on the prime of the desk a day earlier.

And there was no scarcity of drama at Old Trafford on Boxing Day both as United got here from two objectives all the way down to win a primary Premier League in three weeks.

Evans’ spouse – nee McConnell – has been working for United’s in-house channel MUTV for over a decade and first met her husband throughout an interview in 2011

Evans and McConnell have been married at a lavish ceremony in Northern Ireland in 2013

Alejandro Garnacho scored twice to attract United stage within the second half 

Before Hojlund lastly opened his Premier League account 4 months after becoming a member of

Erik ten Hag’s males have been booed off the pitch at half-time with Villa 2-0 up courtesy of objectives from John McGinn and Leander Dendoncker. 

But with INEOS sporting director Sir Dave Brailsford watching from the stands within the first recreation since Sir Jim Ratcliffe sealed his takeover of a 25 % stake within the membership, United roared again within the second half.

A brace from Alejandro Garnacho fired the hosts stage, earlier than Rasmus Hojlund received his first Premier League objective since a £73million transfer from Atalanta in the summertime to grab a 3-2 victory within the 82nd minute.

‘I’m the happiest man alive proper now,’ the Dane stated after the ultimate whistle. 

‘You can see in the celebrations as well. We believed until the end and we showed a lot of character.

‘It’s among the best days of my life. It’s been some time within the Premier League now so I’m glad to get the primary one and hopefully I can construct on that and maintain going.’

The win moved United as much as sixth within the desk, three factors behind Manchester City, who’ve two video games in hand on their rivals.

Villa, in the meantime, stay third three factors behind league leaders Liverpool.