Young Achieves Rare Feat In Watford Win

Ashley Young joined an exclusive goalscorers club on Tuesday night, as his brace against Watford in the 4-2 win, made him only the third Manchester United player to score a double against their former club in the Premier League.

The full-back's first goal against his boyhood club came 19 minutes into the encounter, as he thumped home Jesse Lingard's pass to hand the Reds an early lead. Young then doubled United's advantage and his personal tally, six minutes later, with a superbly whipped free-kick which left Heurelho Gomes in the Watford goal helpless.

Another man to have netted a double against his former club for the Reds is Andy Cole, and the ex-Newcastle striker did so against the Magpies for United on two separate occasions.

Cole first scored a brace against Newcastle in March of the 1998/99 season, as he fired in Dwight Yorke's knock-down to level the scores, after United had fallen behind to Nobby Solano's opener, before meeting Ryan Giggs's cross to poke home the decisive goal early in the second half.

Then, early in the 1999/00 campaign, Cole repeated the feat, this time scoring four goals in a 5-1 thrashing of his former employers. The striker scored twice either side of the break to hand the Reds an unassailable lead, before Giggs added another late on to compound the managerless Magpies' misery.

Towards the end of the 2011/12 season, a painful game to recall for United involved Wayne Rooney bagging a brace in a 4-4 draw with Everton. The former England captain scored five times in 20 appearances against the Toffees with these strikes coming either side of half-time in a match that had major repercussions in the title race.

We believe Cole, Rooney and Young are the only three United players to have netted twice against their former club in the Premier League, though Eric Cantona did net doubles for the Reds against Sheffield Wednesday on two separate occasions - a club he famously went on trial with before he joined Leeds.