Marcus Rashford made Premier League history with his last-gasp heroics for Manchester United during Saturday's 1-0 win over West Ham - with the United academy graduate's strike meaning he's now bagged more late winners than any other player.

Ralf Rangnick's side had seemed to be on their way to another disappointing result after some wayward finishing against the Hammers.

But Rashford stepped off the bench to get United out of jail by netting his second goal inside a week.

Rashford's late impact helped propel United back into the top-four for the first time since October as they desperately bid to salvage their season by securing Champions League football next year.

And it means that Rashford has now netted four winning goals after the 90th minute since his debut for the club back in 2016 - more than anybody else since the Premier League's inception back in 1992.

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Marcus Rashford made history with his goal at the death for Manchester United (
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It's fitting that Rashford holds that record given that United were synonymous with late goals during Sir Alex Ferguson's legendary reign.

Additional time was even dubbed 'Fergie-time' due to how often United would grab late goals under the fiery Scot.

Although Rashford's dramatic late goal survived a tight offside check, there was anger after the game that VAR didn't chalk the goal off.

But when he quizzed on the incident after the match, Rashford insisted that he "knew" he wasn't offside when the ball came to him.

The United ace told Sky Sports: “I knew it wasn’t (offside) from Edi (Cavani) to me, and I don’t think it was from Anthony (Martial) to Edi.

“Before then I was just trying to get into the back post.

Rashford said in his post-match interview he felt that his late goal was onside (
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“It felt like a good goal and thankfully it stood.”

Rashford's second goal in as many games has come at the perfect time for the 24-year-old, who has been slammed in recent weeks due to his poor form.

He finally ended an 11-game drought in the 3-1 win over Brentford in midweek helped to silence some of his critics.

And he then went one better by clinching United's late winner against David Moyes' side right at the death after he was introduced from the bench by Rangnick.

United were notorious for scoring late under Sir Alex Ferguson (
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And he could hardly hide his delight after the final whistle.

He added: “They’re the best games to be involved in and when you’re on the winning side of it, it’s a great feeling.

“Nothing really beats it in football so very happy today, and a very big game against opposition who, at the moment, are very tight with us, so very important we got the win today.”

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