TEENAGE striker Anthony Martial scored a brace and Juan Mata capped it off as Manchester United came back from a goal down to beat Southampton on Sunday.

    Scorer of a memorable solo goal in last weekend’s 3-1 win over Liverpool, 19-year-old Martial struck either side of half time at St. Mary’s after Graziano Pelle had given Southampton a 13th-minute lead.

    Juan Mata added a third in the 68th minute and despite Pelle scoring again, United held on for a victory that propelled Louis van Gaal’s side up to second place in the Premier League table, two points below leader Manchester City, which lost 2-1 at home to West Ham United on Saturday.

    Martial, who signed from Monaco on transfer deadline day for a reported initial fee of 36 million pounds (US$55 million), started up front alongside Wayne Rooney.

    Southampton went ahead when Pelle followed in to score after Sadio Mane’s shot from James Ward-Prowse’s inviting right-wing cross had been parried by visiting goalkeeper David de Gea.

    Pelle hit the post moments later, but Martial equalized in the 34th minute, throwing Virgil van Dijk off balance with a neat Cruyff turn inside the box and slipping a shot beneath Maarten Stekelenburg.

    He put United ahead five minutes into the second half, seizing on a woeful Maya Yoshida back-pass and coolly beating Stekelenburg, before Mata slammed home after Memphis Depay’s shot came back off the post following a hypnotic 44-pass move.

    While Martial again stole the headlines, United was also indebted to de Gea, who produced a jaw-dropping one-handed save to claw a Jose Fonte header off the line when the score was 2-1.

    Pelle converted a cross from Mane with a well-placed header four minutes from time, but United survived.

    Liverpool saw its run of league games without victory extended to four following a 1-1 draw at home to Norwich City.

    Earlier, Son Heung-min’s first Premier League goal earned Tottenham Hotspur victory over Crystal Palace. Son has now scored three goals in two games, after his debut brace against Qarabag of Azerbaijan in the Europa League.(SD-Agencies)