Key occasions
78 min Jimenez goes shut! Fulham can odor blood.
75 min Time for a look on the mail. “Would the MBM ever put up an e mail that has positives about United?” requested James Kelly, once they had been 1-0 up. “Gained’t maintain my breath.” The principle criterion is whether or not it’s a great level, not what facet it comes down on.
74 min Emile Smith Rowe scored after being on the sector for a minute and a half. It was a purpose made at Arsenal.
GOAL! Fulham 1-1 Man United (Smith Rowe 73)
Immediate influence! Help by Iwobi, neat volley by Smith Rowe … errors by Dalot and De Ligt.
71 min Extra Fulham subs! Jimenez for the unlucky Muniz, Smith Rowe for the promising Josh King.
70 min “Ruben Amorim,” sing the travelling followers, in recognition of the truth that he bought away with quarter-hour with out a defensive midfielder.
69 min After Fulham’s thirty seventh nook, Iwobi comes shut with a shot from the sting of the field. Plenty of swazz on it, however not fairly sufficient. And right here is Ugarte, changing Mount.
67 min Iwobi sees that gaffe and replicates it. However Amorim absolutely must put Ugarte or Mainoo on to cramp Iwobi’s type.
65 min Good work from Dalot on the United proper as he finds Sesko, who tries a fast flick to Dorgu … which works straight out.
62 min Replays present that Yoro’s header was really going huge, so he doesn’t have a PL purpose, and Muniz (og) goes on the scoresheet as an alternative.
62 min Fulham subs! Antonee Robinson takes over from the exemplary Sessegnon, and Harry Wilson replaces Timothy Castagne, who was a shock decide on the fitting facet of midfield.
60 min So United have lastly scored after 150 minutes of this season. If the purpose is credited to Yoro, will probably be his first within the Premier League. And he had simply saved the day on the different finish.
GOAL! Fulham 0-1 Man United (Yoro 58)
And the peak has it! Leny Yoro, within the six-yard field, will get a neat agency header which picks up a deflection on its method into the web. Not not like Martinez final 12 months … however did Yoro give Bassey a bootleg push…? No, says the VAR.
57 min We now have a collector’s merchandise: a United nook, gained by Dalot with a left-foot cross. Neville notes that United have extra peak now, with Dalot and Sesko.
55 min I’m attempting to work out who’s taking part in the place for United. I feel Mount has dropped again to hitch Fernandes in centre-mid, which absolutely means United might be much more open than they had been with Casemiro. Cunha has moved to inside-left, which is his pure habitat, and Sesko is up prime, questioning what sort of membership he has simply joined.
54 min Josh King is nearly via … however Leny Yoro does simply sufficient to win the ball with out getting a pink card. One gifted teenager coping with one other.
53 min United subs! Dalot for Amad, to repair that leak at right-back; and Sesko for Casemiro. That’s an fascinating one.
52 min One more Fulham nook. Lukic curls it in and Andersen heads huge, earlier than going mad as a result of the ref hasn’t noticed a deflection from Luke Shaw.
50 min Sessegnon and Iwobi are giving United some extra grief. Marco Silva might have talked about at half-time that United have two left-backs and no right-back.
48 min Higher from Fernandes, who covers many of the subject taking part in give-and-go with varied staff mates. Dorgu wins a nook which finally ends up with a shot from Amad – left foot from the fitting, saved by Leno.
46 min United kick off and enterprise ahead with out attaining a lot. Sessegnon, so purposeful within the first half, retorts with a run down the left and a relatively wayward cross.
“United have began the season,” says Justin Kavanagh, “with keepers they most likely gained’t maintain; a system that has failed them systemically; and an open audition for a false 9, regardless of signing an €85m striker who’s at present homeless, it appears. It’s additionally starting to appear to be they could have a supervisor who can’t handle.”
“United having tons of possibilities and lacking the lot is one thing us Arsenal followers can positively relate to,” says Kieran McKintosh. “The treatment? A striker. This sport has a 1-0 win, Sesko scoring the one purpose, written throughout it. (Thoughts you, I wouldn’t be shocked if he misses an opportunity, Fulham go up the opposite finish and end the job both.)
“Would even be good to see Mainoo get an opportunity for as soon as. He’d positively be a bit more energizing than Fernandes.”
“United appear to be asking the query: can soccer be performed with out a midfield?” says Norrie Hermon. “They’re both attacking or being attacked!
“They appear to be essentially the most open staff within the Prem, and a great wager each to concede and rating fairly a couple of this 12 months.”
“How is {that a} penalty?” says Shaun T. “I imply, if Mount doesn’t run into him first, truthful sufficient – however he does, so the defending lad [Bassey] throws him off.
“There’ll be 10-20 penalties per sport in the event that they stick with issues like that.”
“Informal sports activities fan from the States,” says William Terzin. “By no means thoughts their historical past. United is a joke of a membership. I’m from Cincinnati [Bengals/NFL]. I do know a joke after I see one.
“Please, punish the homeowners in a method American soccer won’t ever be capable to. Relegate United!!”
Time for an e mail. “I started watching the PL a decade or 2 in the past,” says Mary Waltz, “and was mentored by a Bit expat who was an enormous MU fan. They’d signal Pogba-style gamers and I might say absolutely a title is coming. He would grimace and say ‘No. Our midfield sucks.’ He nonetheless is singing the identical track.”
Half-time! Fulham 0-0 Man United
As nil-nils go, it’s been entertaining. United bossed it for the primary quarter-hour however since then it’s been principally Fulham, controlling the midfield and successful one nook after one other. Fernandes’ terrible penalty sums up United’s season thus far: they only can’t discover the web.
45+2 min United’s flip for a set piece. Fernandes lobs it in however can’t discover a pink shirt. He has had a half to overlook.
45+1 min The nook unsettles Altay, once more, and Fulham have a pair extra pictures so as to add to their assortment. They now lead that desk by 8-6.
45 min There might be two extra minutes, when there needs to be at the least 5.
43 min Fulham win a free kick on their proper wing. Lukic sends it sideways to Muniz, whose bicycle kick could be spectacular if he really related with it.
43 min Fernandes, on the ball, is so busy waving his arms to present instructions to the United forwards that he permits his pocket to be picked. Amorim might should do the unthinkable, a while within the second half, and take him off.
40 min Abruptly it’s all taking place once more. United pile ahead and Casemiro will get a yellow card, for causes that aren’t clear. Then Fulham barrel into the field and Sessegnon forces Altay to punch the ball behind. On the nook, Altay appears as feeble as he did in opposition to Arsenal.
39 min That was a shocker. Ruben Amorim couldn’t bear to observe:it was virtually as if he’d seen it coming. It was so not like Fernandes, who deserted his hop, skip and funky go into the nook.
Fernandes misses the penalty!
Bruno Fernandes goes excessive, huge and ugly!
Penalty to United!
The ref takes his time… and offers a pen.
34 min United can’t do something with the ensuing nook, although the VAR is taking a look at a possible foul by Bassey, who bundled Mount to the bottom… and the ref is shipped to the monitor!
33 min Higher from United as Mount sends Fernandes into the field. His cross is properly blocked by Bassey.
32 min No sooner have I mentioned that than Lukic performs a easy go straight out of play.
30 min The sport is one-third over and Fulham are actually wanting the extra comfy of the 2 sides, with their midfield in management, though United have been harmful on the break.
29 min Shaw and Dorgu get in one another’s method close to the half-way line. Amorim’s ploy of taking part in two left-backs and two right-wingers has not been a roaring success thus far.
28 min For his subsequent trick Fernandes tries a giant change to Dorgu, which sails out, a lot to the delight of the house followers.
