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Manchester United attack has clear advantage over Liverpool FC and Man City

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Anthony Martial, Mason Greenwood and Marcus Rashford have all had excellent seasons for United  (Image: PAUL ELLIS/AFP via Getty Images) If Mason Greenwood can find the back of the net three more times during  United's  Europa League run this month he will propel himself, Marcus Rashford and Anthony Martial into the record books. United haven't had three players all score 20 goals in a season since 1964/65, when Dennis Law, David Here and John Connelly were providing the firepower, but if  Greenwood  - currently on 17 - can edge his way past that marker he will join Rashford and Martial - both on 22 - in surpassing that tally. Such landmarks don't automatically make this trio United's best in more than 50 years, of course. Their total together this season is 61, a figure comfortably surpassed by Wayne Rooney,  Cristiano Ronaldo  and Carlos Tevez in 2007/08, for example. And crucially the goals scored by Law, Herd and Connelly and Rooney, Ronaldo and Tevez were enough to