Post Match report for the Man Utd game - Sunday, 4th April 2021
PREMIER LEAGUE 20/21: Manchester United V Brighton - 4/4/21, P30.
* * * * * ALBION COME UP SHORT ON THE NIGHT * * * * *
RESULT: 2-1 ~ Welbeck . (h-t 0-1) . SHAPE: 5-2-3
VENUE: Old Trafford, Manchester - fifteenth away match of thirty fixtures to date . Sunday 7:30pm.
Game played behind closed doors due to current covid restrictions.
PRE-MATCH: Brighton fans had occupied footy time by watching England go thru motions on route to Qatar via Euros.
Now the Prem run-in replaced those biennial routine agitations and ramped up levels of trepidation accordingly.
WEATHER: cold Easter Sunday evening . KIT: all blue.
GRAHAM POTTER was full of praise and positive critique for players returning from international duty. He internally espoused that seeing is believing and awaited assumed reactions to lining up once more at elite club level.
A settled side took to the field after a two week break. Colombian signing Caicedo sat among substitutes.
TEAM . . . . . . . . 26 Sanchez
. . . . . . 3 White, 5 Dunk, 34 Veltman
. 13 Gross, 8 Bissouma, 14 Lallana, 15 Moder
. 18 Welbeck . . . 9 Maupay . . . 11 Trossard
BENCH: 23 Steele, 6 Karbownik, 17 Alzate, 19 Izquierdo, 24 Propper, 25 Caicedo.
10 Mac Allister (63), 16 Jahanbakhsh (87), 29 Zeqiri (88).
GOALS: 0-1 - 13 . WELBECK header is parried but he follows up, following a hot cross from Maupay.
1-1 - 62 . Seagulls lost possession and Red Devils pounced, equalising a little too easily.
2-1 - 83 . hosts switched play and the attempt to score was almost prevented by defenders on the line.
INCIDENTS: 4 - hosts off target . 5 - Bissouma injured . 8 - locals hit post . 10 - visitors attacks .
19 - Dunk header . 25 - locals pressure . 32 - united counters . 37 - reds shot . 45 - Moder wide .
46 - locals pressure . 51 - hosts on target . 60 - Sanchez blocks . 65 - hosts miss . 70 - no pen!! .
72 - Sanchez saves . 76 - Sanchez parries . 80 - Sanchez holds . 85 - late away rally.
YELLOWS: 42 Gross - unsporting . 67 White - unsporting.
SUBS: 63 - Mac Allister for Trossard . 87 - Jahanbakhsh for Moder . 88- Zeqiri for Lallana.
TIMELINE: an early opener from visitors meant hosts had to come from behind to get all points. They strived
to dominate but the away side ensured enough ebb & floe during rest of the first half to regularly relieve it.
Albion were anticipating a home reaction on turnaround and got pushed back. The leveller duly restored
parity and it was more fault of travellers lack of correct decisions than distinct home advantage.
Into final quarter time-wise and visitors were hanging on, having soaked up a fair amount of pressure
and stopped going forwards.
Subs had arrived but back-peddling was not a means to an end. VAR controversy against BHA.
A useful forty-five minute display once again did not morph into a ninety minute performance and
is the story of an inexperienced squad going through work experience this term.
FUNDAMENTALS: poss 58%-42%, on target 7-3, off target 8-2, corners 5-6,
fouls 14-7, yellows 2-2, subs 3-3, shape 4231-3412 . . . . . . gd-5 pt32 po16
CONSEQUENCES: status quo resumed in the bottom six.
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