Manchester United had to it Brighton’s superiority with a score of 1-3 in the 2024/2025 Premier League week 22 match held at Old Trafford, Sunday (19/1/2025).
Brighton’s three winning goals were scored by Yankuba Minteh, Kaoru Mitoma, and Georginio Rutter. Man United had equalized the score through Bruno Fernandes’ penalty execution.
Thanks to this result, Man United is now ranked 13th in the standings with 26 points. Meanwhile, this victory made Brighton rise to ninth place with 34 points.
The match had only been going on for five minutes, Man United was surprised by the goal scored by Brighton. Mitoma escaped the offside trap and gave a which was easily completed into a goal by Minteh.
In the 23rd minute, Man United got a penalty after Joshua Zirkzee was fouled by Carlos Baleba. Fernandes became the executioner and successfully defeated Bart Verbruggen.
Man United and Brighton both created dangerous opportunities. However, no additional goals were scored until the first half ended. The score was 1-1 as the interim result entering the halftime break.
Returning from the locker room, Joao Pedro had scored a goal in the 53rd minute. However, VAR disallowed this goal because Jan Paul van Hecke was deemed to have fouled Manuel Ugarte first.
Brighton finally took the lead again in the 60th minute after Mitoma at the far post successfully won a duel with Noussair Mazraoui and converted Minteh’s cross into a goal.
Man United’s suffering worsened after Andre Onana made a blunder in the 76th minute. The ball he had caught actually slipped and was used by Rutter to score the third goal.
No additional goals were scored in the remaining time. The score of 3-1 for Brighton’s victory over Man United was the final result of this match.
Manchester United manager Ruben Amorim itted that the squad he is currently handling is the worst team in the history of the club.
The defeat to Brighton was Manchester United’s 10th defeat this season in the Premier League. United have now suffered four defeats at home from the last six matches since Erik Ten Hag was replaced by Ruben Amorim.
The negative result also recorded another bad record. This is the first time since the 1894-94 season that United have lost six of 12 matches at home in one season.
For the record, at that time United were still using their old name. At that time the Red Devils were recorded as Newton Heath.
After the match, Ruben Amorim spoke frankly about the Manchester United squad. He was not ashamed to it that the current MU squad is indeed rotten.
He was also not ashamed to it that his current team is the worst team in the history of Man United. Amorim then hopes that the Red Devils can quickly recover from this negative episode.
“I’m not naive. We are probably the worst team in the history of Manchester United. We have to it that and change it,” Amorim was quoted as saying by Goal.
“In 10 games in the Premier League, we won three, I know that. Imagine this for Man United fans, imagine this for me,” he said.
“You get a new manager who has lost more than the previous manager. Imagine that. We have to survive in this moment. I know that,” Amorim exclaimed.
