{"id":47126,"date":"2025-10-25T20:14:42","date_gmt":"2025-10-25T20:14:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/?p=47126"},"modified":"2025-10-25T20:14:44","modified_gmt":"2025-10-25T20:14:44","slug":"premier-leaguebrighton-2-4-manchester-united","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/2025\/10\/25\/premier-leaguebrighton-2-4-manchester-united\/","title":{"rendered":"Premier League:Brighton 2-4 Manchester United"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A Ruben Amorim pirouette and revolving fist-pump greeted Bryan Mbeumo putting Manchester United<\/a> 3-0 up and told the tale of how precious this third consecutive league victory is.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yet the goal came on 61 minutes and still United found themselves clinging on at 3-2 deep into added time before Mbeumo smashed home his second. Almost instantly Anthony Taylor blew for time and \u201cGlory, Glory Man United\u201d blared out at Old Trafford.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So Brighton, winners of three of the last four meetings, motor back to the south coast defeated and Amorim\u2019s team are starting to build some momentum.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Portuguese was not happy at the late near-capitulation but can be content with how his tactic of having Luke Shaw move up from left centre-back to harry Georginio Rutter led to Mbuemo\u2019s first strike having already played a part in Casemiro\u2019s goal. Shaw certainly looked to have fouled the No 10 in the build-up but, with the video assistant referee uninterested, Mbeumo raced on to a cute Benjamin Sesko pass to fire a 20-yard finish which went through Lewis Dunk\u2019s legs and beat Bart Verbruggen to the goalkeeper\u2019s left.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cut to the head coach\u2019s celebration and verses of \u201cRuben Amorim, Ruben Amorim\u201d from the ecstatic home fans, who heralded at the close, too, a third consecutive Premier League<\/a> win in the same season for a first time since February 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Danny Welbeck (left) watches his free-kick clear the Manchester United wall for Brighton\u2019s first goal. Photograph: Oli Scarff\/AFP\/Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

But this was confirmed only after Patrick Dorgu\u2019s pulling down of Yankuba Minteh precipitated United conceding twice. First, Danny Welbeck blazed a free-kick beyond Senne Lammens, the United goalkeeper surely disappointed not to deal with it better as the ball went at him rather than for a corner. In added time James Milner\u2019s corner from the right caught United slumbering and the unmarked Charalampos Kostoulas headed in.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In all this were signs of the project in progress United still are, but it finished as a good day\u2019s work that began with two penalty shouts being turned down by Taylor. An Amad Diallo jink past Maxim De Cuyper caused the left-back to clip him but the referee was unmoved \u2013 to home ire. Further fury followed when Dunk seemed to grab Mbeumo in the area.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Amorim spoke of attitude being key and his men kept on and got their reward. The ball dropped to Bruno Fernandes, whose instant no-look pass to Casemiro was a moment to grace a 300th United appearance. The Brazilian tapped the ball left to Matheus Cunha and a touch to tee it up was followed by a superb curling finish that skimmed past Verbruggen\u2019s fingertips into the bottom left corner.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This was the \u00a362.5m summer signing\u2019s first goal, in his 10th appearance. If \u201cabout time\u201d is a fair call on the strike\u2019s arrival, United\u2019s delight soon doubled as Amorim\u2019s deployment of Shaw as a pickpocket hit the first jackpot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Amad Diallo hitches a ride on Casemiro after the latter scored Manchester United\u2019s second goal. Photograph: Martin Rickett\/PA<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

A Jan Paul van Hecke pass aimed for Rutter was nicked from him by Shaw. Casemiro took aim from 25-yards, the ball deflected off Yasin Ayari, left Verbruggen stranded, and in rolled United\u2019s second.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

United were cruising and it should have been even better by the break. Slick interplay involving Fernandes put Sesko in but he slice wildly off target from only yards out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Rutter did the same at the other end, though he may have been hurt moments before, impeding his movement. There was, though, zero excuse for the amateurish effort Carlos Baleba ballooned over as the second half began \u2013 hardly a prime advert for a player wanted by United in the previous window.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Seconds later, Fernandes showed Baleba how it should be done. Cunha found Diallo deep in Brighton\u2019s area, he picked his captain out, and Fernandes\u2019s pile-driver stung Verbruggen\u2019s palms. The Brighton keeper made another routine save from Sesko while Lammens had to be far more alert when a curving Minteh cross missed everyone and was sneaking into the right corner before the keeper tipped it out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So United\u2019s only home outing in a period of 50 days, with no fixtures at Old Trafford until 24 November, ended in victory: a fine way to sign off<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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