Post Match report for the Man Utd game - Sunday, 19th January 2025

PREMIER LEAGUE 24/25: Manchester United V Brighton - 19/1/25 P22


* * * * * DEVILS IN THE DETAIL * * * * *


RESULT: 1-3 ~ Minteh Mitoma Rutter . (h-t 1-1)


VENUE: Old Trafford, Manchester - twelfth away match of 22 fixtures to date . Sun 2:00pm.
BEFORE KICKOFF: Brighton fans liked going up to see bright lights of each northwest metropolis and also sup thy broth in local hostelries from early lunchtime.
At this juncture southern softies were on their third trip in little over a week having previously enjoyed various watering holes of East Anglia.
Respects were paid to twentieth-century Man Utd & Scotland goal-scoring icon Denis Law.
WEATHER: mild . GATE: 73,758 . KIT: b&w . ATMOSPHERE: big place, bigger noise & biggest emotions

FABIAN HURZELER had previously dreamed of being in the technical area at huge stadiums and once again it came true.
FH also consulted his squad wish-list and found enough options to field a regular eleven.

INJURED: 6 Milner 8 Gruda 24 Kadioglu 27 Wieffer 28 Ferguson 33 ORiley 41 Hinshelwood
SQUAD: 15 Moder. REHAB: 3 Julio . LEFT: Samuels
STARTING SHAPE: 4-2-3-1


TEAM . . . . . . . . . 1 Verbruggen
. 34 Veltman 29 van Hecke 5 Dunk 30 Estupinan
. . 17 Minteh 20 Baleba 26 Ayari 22 Mitoma
. . . . . . . . 9 Pedro . . . 18 Welbeck

SUBS: 7 March (69), 14 Rutter (69), 2 Lamptey (84), 25 Gomez (95),10 Enciso (95)
BENCH: 23 Steele (gk) 4 Webster 11 Adingra 44 McConville


GOALS:
0-1 - 5 . MINTEH nets a ball from Mitoma after a simple long pass up field by Baleba.
1-1 - 23 . hosts equalise from the penalty spot and Baleba receives a card.
1-2 - 60 . MITOMA finishes a Minteh assist in a progressive foray from another pacy attack.
1-3 - 76 . RUTTER takes advantage of a parry by the keeper to slot into an empty net.


YELLOWS: Baleba 21, Minteh 43, March 98

CHANGES: 69 March & Rutter forMinteh & Welbeck
84 Lamptey for Estupinan . 95 Enciso & Gomez for Pedro & Baleba


FIRST HALF: Seagulls open scoring very early but immediately retreat and soon allow Reds pressure to overwhelm.
Visitors labour to encroach into Utd third and ponderous forward motion is perpetually turned sideways.
SECOND HALF: from turn-around controversy follows after VAR send Ref to the monitor when Albion net.
On the hour mark Seagulls do score a second.
And later are gifted a third goal.

IN THE END: goals win games but so does solid defence in otherwise a fairly even contest.

NUMBERS: poss 51%-49%, on target 1-3, off target 9-3, corners 4-2,
fouls 13-12, yellows 3-3, subs 4-5, shape 3421-442 . . . . . gd5 pt34 po9

FS


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