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Manchester United U21s hosted Brighton & Hove Albion on Monday evening at Leigh Sports activities Village as they made their return to motion after the worldwide break.
The match began off slowly with neither facet bringing an excessive amount of power to the sport.
Some intricate play on the fringe of Brighton’s space opened up area for Zach Baumann on the left facet to shoot but it surely was blocked and it fell to Harry Amass whose try flashed broad of the put up.
Their was little to be aware of within the first half and fittingly the match’s opening purpose got here from a scrappy personal purpose within the forty first minute.
Amass overlapped Sam Murray on the left wing and delivered low into the field for Brighton captain Ruairi McConville to steer into his personal internet to make it 1-0 to United heading into the break.
Within the second half, Charlie McNeill was performed in down the appropriate channel by Rhys Bennett who then went down within the field however his penalty appeals have been rapidly waved away.
Amass was wanting essentially the most harmful for United as he received the ball excessive up the pitch after which dribbled by way of three Brighton defenders however the left again couldn’t maintain his proper footed effort heading in the right direction.
Ethan Wheatley and Amir Ibragimov have been launched by Travis Binnion simply earlier than the hour mark and the 2 mixed properly to feed Ibragimov within the field with the 16-year-old’s strike blocked by the Brighton defence with McNeill’s observe up try additionally blocked out for a nook.
1-0 Man Utd
HARRY AMASS’ CROSS IS TURNED IN BY THE BRIGHTON DEFENDER FOR AN OG!! pic.twitter.com/zxhowo4lAx
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Brighton lastly got here alive late on although and equalised within the 72nd minute.
Poor defending from United from a nook allowed Brighton’s McConville to make amends for his personal purpose by rising free within the field to move down at purpose which was initially blocked by Ashton Missin however McConville was the one one alive to the rebound to smash previous Dermot Mee.
For all of United’s possession they did little to threaten Brighton’s purpose for a winner and it was the guests who seemed the extra possible to take action.
Within the 89th minute, Brighton countered with blistering tempo to drive two improbable saves from Mee earlier than Jacob Devaney blocked the third try at purpose to make sure United at the very least received one level from the sport.
The draw leaves United in twelfth place, the minimize off for qualification to subsequent season’s Premier League Worldwide Cup and 4 spots above the cut-off for the end-of-season play-off {qualifications}.
United: Mee, Ogunneye (Missin 46), Bennett, Aljofree, Murray, Amass, Baumann (Devaney 78), Curley (Ibragimov 59), Oyedele, Ennis (Wheatley 59), McNeill
Unused subs: Wooster
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