Manchester United staged a second-half turnaround as goals from Anthony Elanga, Mason Greenwood and Marcus Rashford earned a 3-1 win at Brentford to boost the team's top-four ambitions in the Premier League 2021-22.(More Football News)
It was another less-than-convincing display from Manchester United on Wednesday, though, with Cristiano Ronaldo ostensibly far from impressed at being substituted with 20 minutes left.
Elanga, a 19-year-old winger starting only his fourth Premier League match, broke the deadlock in the 55th minute by latching onto Fred's pass behind Brentford's defense and then nodding the ball into the corner. Brentford, by then, had wasted a host of chances to take the lead in the first half.
Greenwood then notched his first Premier League goal since October, tapping in from Bruno Fernandes' pass, to make it 2-0 in the 62nd. Rashford climbed off the bench to add the third 바카라 again off a pass from Fernandes 바카라 in the 77th for a first league win of 2022.
바카라First half was not good in all aspects of the game,바카라 Manchester United manager Ralf Rangnick said. 바카라In the second half, we were more urgent, attacking higher up the pitch and taking the right decisions in the counterattack and we scored, which is the big difference.바카라
It was incredibly hard on Brentford, which had dominated the first league meeting between these sides since 1946 but only had Ivan Toney's late scrambled consolation to show for it. 바카라Unbelievably proud of my team," Brentford manager Thomas Frank said.
바카라We are the smallest club in the Premier League, Manchester United the biggest. We destroyed them in the first half. They didn't have a sniff, three huge chances and there could only have been one winner of this game. They are unbelievably lucky.바카라
Manchester United stayed in seventh place, but is only two points behind fourth-place West Ham in the race for Champions League qualification. Ronaldo, who had missed United's last two games because of a hip injury, walked off the field slowly after the board flashed up to show he was being replaced by Rashford in the 70th minute.
He muttered to himself and was seen throwing his arms up in apparent disgust. Rangnick played it down. 바카라That is normal 바카라 a striker wants to score,바카라 Rangnick said. 바카라But he has come back from a little injury and it was important to remember we have got another game coming up.바카라
