Without punching in the entire first part, the Manchester United succumbed in the second half against the changes of Julen Lopeteguithe reaction of West Ham and a debatable penalty, which rewarded the reinvention of the London team and punished the irregularity of the visiting team, relegated to fourteenth position (2-1).
Closer to relegation than to first place, the group led by Erik Ten Hag He did not take advantage of his moment in the match, much better in the first half than his opponent, whom he overwhelmed and then committed to a survival exercise on the edge of the precipice, sustained by the stops of Fabianskibut, above all, because of United’s alarming lack of effectiveness, reflected in Alejandro Garnacho o Sharing.
The Portuguese full-back missed a very clear chance, amid the frustration of his team, when he created not only enough opportunities to win at half-time, but even to score a goal, but was left to zero, with an evident superiority on the field of play that is not valid for nothing if you don’t transform it into the result. United didn’t do it… And they paid for it later.
Because the offensive margin that the West Ham It was much smaller later. Not only that, but the London team went further, took control of the duel and moved all the real action to the Los Angeles field. Red Devilswho went from their attack in the first half to their defense in the second, increasingly on the edge of the goal against.
A fact in the 74th minute, when Crysencio Summerville beat Onana at the far post to tell United that they needed much more to come out with some points from there.
And there, suddenly, the team Ten Hag reacted again, appeared with constancy on the opposite area and tied through Casemiro, after a header from Zirkzeejust entered the field. The Brazilian’s header, in the small area, was the answer: 1-1.
The way in which they got up from 1-0 and the pace at which they played until then, invariably facing each other, they leave Manchester United in a bad placewho, apart from the first half, only showed ambition when he saw everything lost, when the defeat by a goal against forced him to expose and propose much more. He tied… And then he lost, with the controversy of a dubious penalty by De Ligt on Danny Ings. There could have been a previous hand.
The desperation of De Ligt, the doubts of Bruno Fernandes and the gestures of disbelief in the visiting block expressed their disagreement with this event inside the area, already in the final moments. Jarrod Bowen transformed it perfectly in the 92nd minute for the defeat of United, who also lost Mazraoui, injured in his right knee in a fight with a rival, awaiting medical tests to determine the extent of his injury.
RGS
