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Manchester United as soon as once more let their lead slip in added time, succumbing 4-3 to Chelsea of their Premier League recreation at Stamford Bridge on Thursday.
The guests have been main 3-2 until the ninth minute of added time, earlier than Diogo Dalot conceded a penalty which Cole Palmer slotted in to equalise.
It was a tender penalty which VAR ought to have overturned however by the point the penalty was scored, the Portugal worldwide appeared his lose his head.
Then from one other poor piece of play from the Portuguese, the Blues earned a nook and scored by means of the identical participant to seize all three factors.
The total-back began on the left for the sport after Aaron Wan-Bissaka had began in that place for the final couple of video games.
Dalot’s poor recreation
This positional rotation didn’t work this time round with the previous Manchester Metropolis star getting the higher of the previous Porto man all through the 90 minutes.
Dalot received solely 41 p.c of his duels on the evening and misplaced possession 11 occasions. He additionally gave away 5 fouls.
Often an excellent passer, the 25-year-old was removed from safe as he completed the sport with 30 of 37 passes discovering a teammate with a passing accuracy charge of 81 p.c.
None of his lengthy balls discovered their meant goal however Dalot did choose up an help for Bruno Fernandes’ equaliser nevertheless it was his defending that permit the staff down.
He was rated the bottom amongst all United gamers by Sofascore, who gave him a 6.2. Dalot has arguably been one of many higher performers this season however stays error-prone defensively.
Each Raphael Varane and Jonny Evans hobbled off and with their in-form defender having a nightmare, that is unhealthy information for Ten Hag forward of the Liverpool recreation on Sunday.
EtH in hassle
Erik ten Hag’s chaos ball as soon as once more did not work with the hosts having the liberty of the whole midfield to counter by means of again and again.
The Blues had 28 pictures, and the supervisor had indicated he doesn’t care an excessive amount of about this statistic and it certainly is regarding to say the least.
With Sir Jim Ratcliffe in attendance, United let their lead slip once more and after what transpired towards Brentford, this was the worst attainable approach to finish the sport.
INEOS have been reportedly not impressed with Ten Hag’s fashion of play final weekend and each events appear to be heading in direction of a summer time cut up.
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