alternate start, Cristiano Ronaldo waved his arms to encourage his teammates when the Man Utd conceded 0-1 Brighton and Lucas Gross, who scored 0-2 before the break and portrayed Erik Ten Haag’s team, a defensive bargain and a minor team in their strange present, beyond the subsequent reaction with the departure of the Portuguese star and 1 -2 that Mac Allister scored in his own door.
In the first half, Brighton were better in each and every one of the aspects that define the difference on the pitch, in aptitude and attitude, in order, ambition and transition, in attack and in defence; in the second, United awoke from the imagination of Christian Eriksen and the presence of Cristiano Ronaldo, who entered the field in the 53rd minute, but was unable to level the match, among other things because Rashford missed his chances.
The substitution of a scorer like the Portuguese star, perhaps explained by his intention to leave or his late arrival in the preseason, is an unaffordable concession for Manchester United today, a vulnerable team in every sector of the pitch and a insubstantial block in its collective, which is entrusted to a collection of individualities that give off a level that today does not have as a whole. And there are few like Cristiano Ronaldo, very few, no matter how much he is already 37 years old or wants to leave.
The official staging of the Ten Haag era was a fiasco. His first Sunday halftime at Old Trafford cannot be described in any other way, which described a team overwhelmed by the high pressure of its opponent, misplaced in the withdrawal, overwhelmed when it had to contain in its rearguard, irrelevant when it had to create its attacks in the other area and that in just 10 seconds he had already given his rival the first chance. To Trossard.
When Brighton pressed him up, he took the ball out as an insoluble hieroglyph. He needs a lot more work. His goleada in the first duel of the summer against Liverpool was a mirage of which there is no trace. Atlético de Madrid demonstrated it a week ago, disarming it with two weeks less preparation. Or the Lightning. The beginning of the competition corroborated all the problems that were appreciated in United.
On the verge of half an hour, the scoreboard reaffirmed its disappointing present, when Brighton dismantled it with a simple uncheck by Danny Welbeck. It was undetectable for Lisandro Martínez and Harry Maguire, pictured in action. The striker, between the two, fell to the right wing to receive Trossard’s pass and completely alone gave continuity to the combination with the pass to the area that Pascal Gross (0-1) clinched, alone.
Contemplative, the United defense was unaware of any of those moves, but neither did they show the tension, focus or intensity required in the first half or at 0-2 ten minutes later, when March entered the opponent’s box as if out his to unleash a low shot with the right. De Gea put out his hand to clear it to the side, where he was waiting for Gross again to push the 0-2. Everything was a mess.
Hardly anyone was spared from the noisy shipwreck of the first half. Perhaps Eriksen, the only protagonist of United’s only occasion in the first act, with a loose shot at the goalkeeper’s hands. Ten Haag did not wait any longer. Planned -it doesn’t seem like it-, coincidence or necessity, the coach ordered Cristiano Ronaldo to warm up just after the 0-2. He did not use it at intermission, from which his team left amid the anger of his followers.
Yes later. Six minutes after the break, with only half a game in this preseason, the coach turned to him. In the 52nd minute. Acclaimed when he entered the game he transmitted the dimension of him to his teammates. His first pass was an express gift for Marcus Rahsford’s 2-1, had it not been for the formidable intervention of Spaniard Robert Sánchez, whose miraculous left arm parried United’s goal. A fantastic stop.
A light, still dim, in the tunnel through which United had passed throughout the first half, as was the next chance for Rashford, who badly finished off Bruno Fernandes’s shipment, while the clock counted down minutes, although it was already something else, although the sensations were radically different from the entire previous stretch, and Robert Sánchez was running as a figure in Brighton’s goal, one shot from Eriksen… until he failed at 1-2. He failed to clear a corner, perhaps due to Dalot’s effect, and the ball ended up in the net, due to Mac Allister’s involuntary push against his own goal. It was the 67th minute. United did not give it any more, whose debut confirmed the decline of recent times.
THE PREVIEW OF THE MATCH
The big question regarding the official debut of coach Erik Ten Hag is knowing what role Cristiano Ronaldo will play at the start of the new season. The Portuguese striker missed much of the preparation stage and barely played 45 minutes against Rayo Vallecano. The team played a further five friendlies on their tour of Australia, Malaysia and Norway.
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Cristiano Ronaldo’s situation is particular, since he spent a large part of the transfer market looking for a way out of Manchester United to a club that offers him the Premier League. Despite this, the local media indicate that the scorer should be summoned due to the forced absence of Anthony Martial due to injury.
On their side, Brighton had a preseason with a positive balance: three wins, one draw and one loss. However, manager Graham Potter believes it will be a difficult course: “We need to adjust, but as I said before, we have to remember that we are in the Premier League, we fought very hard and for a long time to be here.he pointed.
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To watch the online broadcast of the match between Manchester United and Brighton you can do it through four signals. If you are in Spanish territory you must follow this match via Movistar Plus and DAZN. If you live in Mexico you can follow this great game through the Paramount Plus online signal. Finally, if you are in South America you can follow it on Star Plus.
Manchester United vs. Brighton: possible match line-ups
Manchester United: De Gea; Dalot, Varane, Maguire, Malacia; Lisandro Martinez, Eriksen; Fred; Sancho, Bruno Fernandes, Rashford.
Brighton: Sanchez; Veltman, Dunk, Webster; Lamptey, Mwepu, Gross, March; MacAllister, Welbeck, Trossard.
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