Post Match report for the Man Utd game - Tuesday, 15th February 2022

PREMIER LEAGUE 21/22: Manchester United V Brighton - 15/2/22 P24.


* * * * * ALBION OVER CONFIDENCE BACKFIRES * * * * *


RESULT: 2-0 . (h-t 0-0) . . . SHAPE: 4-4-2


VENUE: Old Trafford, Manchester - thirteenth away match of twenty-four fixtures to date . Tue 8:15pm.
PRE-MATCH: this rescheduled game from pre-Xmas postponement meant Brighton fans travelled to the northwest on a wet & windy work-day during mid February.
Word on metropolitan streets beforehand was there had never been a better time to celebrate coming up north from Sussex by the sea.
WEATHER: mild evening . . . GATE: tba . . . KIT: blue & white.


GRAHAM POTTER got to 100 Prem games and felt the love from reaching a very good place the day after Valentines.
GP selected a flat back four with fluid midfield of a diamond behind two up front.
Bissouma, Mac Allister and Trossard all stepped up to start.
INJURY: 12 Mwepu . . . SQUAD: 28 Roberts.


TEAM . . . . . . . . . 1 Sanchez
. 34 Veltman, 4 Webster, 5 Dunk, 3 Cucurella
. . . 13 Gross, 8 Bissouma, 10 Mac Allister
. . . . 9 Maupay . . . 15 Moder . . . 11 Trossard

SUBS: 2 Lamptey (60), 17 Alzate (60), 18 Welbeck (70)
BENCH: 23 Steele (gk , 24 Duffy, 14 Lallana, 20 March, 25 Caicedo, 58 Ferguson.


GOALS: 1-0 - 51 . a mistake by Bissouma is punished by opposition striker with a snap strike that beats Sanchez.
2-0 - 97 . Seagulls are caught cold going forward and handle - locals expensive ball player shows some skill.


INCIDENTS: 5 Moder effort, 7 Sanchez parries, 15 Maupay blocked, 17 Mac A try, 23 Sanchez takes, 30 Gross miss, 32 hosts dig, 37 Bissouma over, 39 Moder header, 40 Mac A heads, 41 Bissouma wide, 44 hosts f-k,
53 VAR intervention, 56 hosts pressure, 61 hosts miss, 63 hosts miss, 66 Sanchez saves, 67 hosts blocked, 71 Sanchez save, 74 hosts blocked, 75 hosts header, 78 Moder hits bar, 80 Sanchez saves, 82 Sanchez saves, 84 hosts blocked, 87 hosts blocked, 90 Welbeck miss, 90+ away pressure.

YELLOWS: 52 Dunk - rescinded, 85 Mac Allister . . . RED: 54 Dunk - upgraded Y.

CHANGES: 60 Lamptey & Alzate for Trossard & Gross . 70 Welbeck for Maupay.


FIRST HALF: having more possession, containing locals attacks and reducing them to one shot on target ensured a clean sheet.
But visitors could not take advantage by scoring from real chances that duly arrived during a goalless 45mins.
SECOND HALF: going behind soon after turnaround and quickly thereafter losing their captain gave Seagulls a huge task to obtain anything from this contest with ten men.
Potter made necessary alterations in what was now a salvage operation.
The single goal within 90mins was hardly a typical score from unusual happenings up to and over ninety minutes plus.


NUMBERS: poss 50%-50%, on target 7-3, off target 12-7, corners 10-2,
fouls 8-10, yellows 3-1, red 0-1, subs 3-3, shape 4231-41212 . . . . . gd1 pt33 po9

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