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Key occasions
29 min Kerkez, racing to the byline, wins a nook off Mazraoui.
27 min Casemiro will get away with a excessive boot in midfield after which, somewhat like Adams, redeems himself with a superb perpendicular ball to Hojlund. Nothing comes of it, nevertheless it does really feel as if United have a purpose in them right here. The issue is that it feels as if Bournemouth may simply get three.
26 min Effectively, United do prefer to concede first. Apparently it’s the twenty first time they’ve executed it this season.
24 min Adams received the ball again on the correct wing and located Evanilsen within the center. He made a neat lay-off again to Semenyo, who blasted a left-foot shot previous Onana.
GOAL! Bournemouth 1-0 Man United (Semenyo 23)
There it’s! And certain sufficient, it was United attempting to play out from the again.
22 min The VAR is taking a look at it… however agrees with the ref.
21 min Garnacho, monitoring again now, goes down in ache as Tyler Adams flies right into a sort out. That’s a yellow card for Adams, for the third sport in a row.
20 min Kerkez, so good at each ends of the sector, places a cease to a run from Garnacho.
18 min Free kick to United on the left. Fernandes slips it to Shaw, whose cross is an effective one, choosing out Maguire on the correct. He goals a header into the combination nevertheless it’s simply cleared.
16 min Probability for Garnacho! He begins the transfer on the counter and virtually finishes it, however his shot from the D curls broad of the far submit.
14 min Casemiro performs an terrible move, straight to the closest man in black-and-red, however once more Bournemouth’s speedy forwards can’t capitalise. It feels as if there’s a purpose coming, and never for United.
12 min Patrick Dorgu made a pleasant run down the left simply now, ending with a neat backheel to Granacho that was a uncommon second of rapport between these two younger gamers. However now Dorgu provides away a pointless free kick, and is relieved to seek out the whistle coming to United’s rescue because the ball bobbles round their field.
10 min Probability for United! Mainoo wiggles down the inside-left channel, evades a sort out or two and shoots – straight at Kepa.
8 min André Onana goes quick and dwelling dangerously.
“Good level about Liverpool and Man Utd being comparable,” says Tim Woods. “United’s present plight jogs my memory of our fallow 90s/00s years when the odd cup failed to cover an period of mediocrity. So agreed, there’s a nice deal in frequent (apart from European Cups, the place we have now twice as many).”
6 min Kobbie Mainoo is enjoying within the pivot with Bruno Fernandes additional ahead, although Amorim has been vital of Mainoo’s defensive skills. We’ll see the place they find yourself: Fernandes seldom finishes a sport the place he begins it.
4 min A ghost of an opportunity. Ouattara, on the left, curls in a stunning cross which Evanilsen can’t fairly attain together with his tried poke.
3 min United’s flip to get ahead. Garnacho slips a move inside to Fernandes, whose cross is unusually poor.
2 min Bournemouth make it into United’s space, however the ball goes out for a purpose kick.
1 min Bournemouth kick off and get ahead down the correct.
The groups stroll out into the sunshine. Bournemouth are of their Stendhal stripes, United in all-white, like a poor man’s Actual Madrid.
As United go into their huddle, Luke Shaw appears to be giving the pep discuss, which is a pleasant contact. Shaw is at left centre-back, so the wing-backs are Mazraoui and Dorgu. Amorim does prefer to have three full-backs on the sector always.
“Rob Hisnay requested why there isn’t outrage in the direction of Omorim about his document,” says Paul Hinson. “The reason being apparent to most. He’s nonetheless primarily caught with Ten Hag’s gamers and till the clearout begins in the summertime the outcomes would be the similar. He wants his personal workforce earlier than he may be judged.” Effectively, up to some extent. If that was the rule, no person could be praising Arne Slot for what he’s executed this season. Managers have to have the ability to work with gamers they inherited, don’t they? Their job is to get the most effective out of the squad.
“Yesterday,” says Bruce Crawford, “was half a century to the day since United obtained the Division 2 trophy on promotion again to the First Division. I used to be there, aged 15, with my silent cine digital camera.
“A joyous event of the kind we’re sorely starved of now. We knew we had a very good workforce and the joy of the Tommy Docherty period remains to be cherished by followers from that point.
“I ponder what United followers 50 years therefore will likely be trying again on…?”
Ha, nicely, it may very well be their triumph within the Europa League, the one competitors wherein Amorim hasn’t made them worse. However Athletic Bilbao are a formidable foe.
Thanks for the cine footage, which could be very evocative.
“I noticed this stat,” says Rob Hisnay. “‘Manchester United have averaged 1.05 factors per sport underneath Ruben Amorim – solely the underside three and Tottenham have a decrease determine since his appointment.’ The place’s the outrage about this from United followers?
“Throw in two years of Ten Hag throwing cash at ineffective gamers whereas promoting quite a lot of academy graduates. With Ratcliffe retaining Amorim, I concern we’re in serious trouble.”
Ruben Amorim admits that letting Marcus Rashford and Antony go may need value United 10 targets. That’s as many as this once-attacking membership have scored of their final eight league video games. However he thinks it’s value it, as Jamie Jackson reviews.
That is Bournemouth’s three hundredth sport within the Premier League. In seven full seasons to date, their greatest end was ninth in 2016-17. In the event that they win as we speak, they are going to be eighth, however their subsequent three fixtures are all towards groups above them – Arsenal away, Villa house, Man Metropolis away. They end with what appears like a much less daunting project, at house to Leicester, though humorous issues do occur on the ultimate day.
Groups in full
Bournemouth (possible 4-2-3-1) Arrizabalaga; Smith, Zabarnyi, Huijsen, Kerkez; Scott, Adams; Semenyo, Kluivert, Ouattara; Evanilson.
Subs: Dennis, Araujo, Senesi, Soler, Hill, Cook dinner, Brooks, Tavernier, Jebbison.
Man United (possible 3-4-2-1) Onana; Mazraoui, Maguire, Yoro; Dorgu, Casemiro, Fernandes, Shaw; Garnacho, Mainoo; Højlund.
Subs: Heaton, Lindelof, Fredericson, Evans, Amass, Ugarte, Eriksen, Mount, Obi.
Groups in short: Bournemouth unchanged
It was one other disappointing consequence for Bournemouth final weekend, 0-0 towards ten males at Crystal Palace, however Iraola sees no motive to alter a drawing workforce.
Groups in short: Shaw begins
Luke Shaw, who has had such a troublesome time with accidents, makes his first begin underneath Amorim, his first this season, his first since he performed for England within the Euro last, and his first for United since they confronted Luton 14 months in the past.
Whether or not he’s at centre-back or wing-back stays to be seen: Amorim prefers him to remain central, however Diogo Dalot’s damage means there’s a emptiness at wing-back. It should both be stuffed by Noussair Mazraoui with Patrick Dorgu remaining on the left, or by Shaw with Dorgu switching to the correct. Shaw could be the extra artistic choice.
Preamble
Afternoon everybody and welcome to a contest that might have been a cracker. Bournemouth, who had been fifth at Christmas, ought to nonetheless be within the fascinating tussle for Champions League locations. Manchester United, who had been solely 4 factors off the highest three when Ruben Amorim arrived, needs to be there or thereabouts too. As an alternative this sport pits tenth towards fifteenth, and the principle curiosity lies in seeing whether or not Bournemouth can do the double over United. That is changing into a well-known feeling for Amorim – Newcastle did it, Forest did it, even Ange’s Spurs did it – however could be a primary for Bournemouth.
On kind you may anticipate each these groups to lose. For the previous three months, they’ve been as unhealthy as one another within the league. Each have performed 10, received 2, drawn 3 and misplaced 5. Each have conceded 14 targets throughout that run, whereas Bournemouth have scored 11 and United 10. Solely the relegated golf equipment have executed worse.
Opta makes Bournemouth heat favourites to win as we speak, with a 54pc probability to United’s 22. Within the reverse fixture Bournemouth received 3-0, although, in keeping with xG on fbref, United had barely the higher possibilities (2.2-1.6). “The sport was fairly stage,” Andoni Iraola stated on Friday. “It was not a 3-0 sport.” But when anybody can get his workforce out of their hunch, it’s United. Bournemouth are simply the type of opponents – mid-table, nicely drilled, medical on the counter – that Amorim’s again 5 can’t deal with.
For the travelling followers, as in the event that they didn’t have sufficient sorrows already, there’s a bitter piece of historical past beckoning on the lengthy journey house. With Liverpool enjoying straight afterwards, that is in all probability the final time United will take the sector as the one English workforce with 20 league titles. When Virgil van Dijk lifts the Premier League trophy, it’ll deepen the curious resemblance between the 2 golf equipment. They’re like a pair of brothers who’re so busy shouting at one another that they will’t see how comparable they’re.