A vivid start from the Red Devils fizzled out without praise and the German appeared like he may need to accept a disappointing draw in his first match seeing that taking rate till the end of the season.
But Fred, who were a target for plenty of the criticism toward the give up of Ole Gunnar Solskjaer's time as manager, produced a second of magic with a curling effort on his weaker proper foot thirteen minutes from time to snatch a crucial victory.
United pass back to inside three factors of the top 4 and up to 6th within the Premier League table. There were no on the spot adjustments from Rangnick within the line-up as he named an unchanged aspect from Thursday's 3-2 win over Arsenal. But there was an instant change in technique as United pressed Palace into coughing up possession deep interior their personal 1/2 two times within the first 5 mins.
However, there was a lack of precision to suit United's depth. Cristiano Ronaldo took his tally of desires for membership and country to 801 with a double in midweek, but his lengthy wait to net from a free-kick goes on as his effort from the threshold of the container did now not dip in time. Ronaldo also had a shot blocked through Marc Guehi after deciding in opposition to hitting Bruno Fernandes' dinked skip first time.
United's satisfactory chance of the primary 45 minutes fell to Fred, however his goalbound effort turned into bravely diverted behind by means of James Tomkins. Fernandes sooner or later examined Vicente Guaita from Ronaldo's knockdown earlier than Diogo Dalot fired wastefully over on his weaker left foot with the remaining kick of the primary 1/2.
However, United's early enthusiasm to electrify their new boss tired away as the second one half of performance more intently resembled the final days of Solskjaer's reign. Palace need to have long past in the front 15 mins from time while Jordan Ayew someway became Tomkins' header back across purpose and beyond the attain of Guehi on the again put up.
Rangnick comes with a recognition of putting his religion in young gamers and showed that as he sacrificed Jadon Sancho and Marcus Rashford for Mason Greenwood and Anthony Elanga on the lookout for a winner. Greenwood made a telling contribution as it become from his layoff that Fred looped the ball over Guaita.
After a promising begin to Patrick Vieira's time at Palace, the Eagles have now didn't win in their past 4 and the Frenchman's caution helped United toward a primary clean sheet at Old Trafford in 16 video games. Michael Olise and Eberechi Eze have been most effective brought off the bench with six mins last, but had little time to make an impact as a nervy United held out.
