Burnley v Manchester United: Premier League – Live! | Football

39 minutes: A corner of United. Barnes is marking Bailly, and when the ball is about to be caught, he falls. The first corner is very good, descending dangerously towards the first post; the retaken corner is not that big. Still no goals.

38 minutes: I think it was a very charitable decision. Pieters was never going to win that header, not where he was standing and without jumping, but Maguire couldn’t win it without crashing into him.

36 minutes: A fabulous cross from Shaw and an excellent header when Maguire jumps over Pieters at the far post and heads. But the referee thinks he fouled the defender before winning the header, and disallows it!

34 minutes: I’m not sure I’ve ever seen a VAR check from this-side-gets-a-red-card-if-that-side-doesn’t-get-a-red-card before. Given the circumstances, I have to be a bit disappointed that it somehow ended with neither side getting a red card.

33 minutes: And finally the free throw is taken, huddled over a crowded six-yard box and out for a goal kick.

32 minutes: Burnley tries to take the free kick quickly, before United’s defense is established, but the fast pass is for a player who is offside! However, their blushes are saved because the referee wants to reserve Shaw before play restarts.

32 minutes: It’s a free kick for Burnley! Brady’s yellow card has been canceled!

31 minutes: I think Shaw just catches the ball, before he puts his cleats on Gudmundsson’s shin.

28 minutes: They’re checking out Shaw’s challenge to Gudmundsson. Brady could be sent off for denying a scoring opportunity if the VAR believes it is not a foul. And there is a possibility that the VAR thinks it is a red card. It is quite possible that someone will go here, but who?

27 minutes: Action at both ends! In one, Gudmundsson appears to win the ball ahead of Shaw and falls. The home team wants a free kick but can’t get it, United break, Mee misjudges and Cavani comes out clean. He controls his right foot, at which point Brady eliminates him. The referee shows yellow, but the VAR will look again.

25 minutes: Matic intercepts the ball in the center of the field and finds Martial with an excellent pass to the first. The Frenchman elbows Lowton and shoots with his left foot, but it curls really well!

23 minutes: The referee calls Maguire and tells him to tell Cavani to stop bothering everyone. “I understand Richard Hirst’s point of view, but much worse is when you join in one of those tipping games,” writes Malcolm Shuttleworth. “I am (as a Manchester United fan) willing for teams like Manchester City or Liverpool to score a late winning goal, so I can get some points. When it happens, it’s like watching your mother-in-law drive off a cliff in her new car. “

22 minutes: Fernandes gives the ball away and Burnley made a lovely little move to set Wood up for a shot, from inside the box, that hits the slippery Bailly in the chest.

20 minutes: A nice dribble from Rashford, who passes to Fernandes, and from his center Martial attempts a decent-looking overhead but hits a defender.

17 minutes: Shooting! Shaw rolls the ball over the edge of the box, and Fernandes’ first effort is too close to Pope. Meanwhile, this stat of touches in the opposition penalty area is something:

15 minutes: Another goal in Molineux, where Wolves is now 1-1 Everton, Ruben Neves with the tie.

14 minutes: Cavani and Mee go for the same high ball. Mee reaches out to contain his rival, who lands on the Uruguayan’s neck. Cavani falls clutching his face.

13 minutes: The ball falls kindly to Mee, who hits a wildly deflected shot from a distance.

10 minutes: Burnley has made all the important attacks in the early stages, and it seems his plan is to put Wan-Bissaka under maximum pressure with high balls on the left flank.

7 minutes: Gudmundsson’s high ball in the box is knocked down and almost falls to Barnes, who crushes Maguire in desperation to reach it and concedes a free kick.

5 minutes: “I am deeply in conflict tonight,” writes Richard Hirst. “As a Fulham supporter, I urgently need Burnley to lose, but as a paid member of the Anyone But United squad I can’t support them either. I look forward to a 0-0 draw with a massive fight leading to both clubs having points deducted for not controlling their players. At least that would warm up a cold night! “One of the worst things about supporting football is when it leaves you wanting both sides to lose a game you’re watching.

1 minute: The first shot of the game comes within the first 20 seconds, when a long ball from right to left bounces towards Brady, who hits a high southpaw from the edge of the area.

1 minute: Peeeeeeep! The whistle blows, Ashley Westwood starts off, realizes everyone else is on one knee, so he does too, and shyly starts again a few moments later.

“In case of some strange twist of fate Man Utd gets a shame tonight, is there any narrative / case that can be made that the abrupt leap of whoever will take it constitutes “unchivalrous conduct” and should be trampled on like a Monty Python foot? ”

I don’t think so, as it doesn’t stop. United received 14 penalties last season, twice as many as the fourth most penalized team in the division and three ahead of No2, but are only second in this season’s penalty table with six, four behind Leicester and tied. with Brighton.

“Big call from Ole to play Maguire IMO, ”writes Peter Kingsnorth. “He is one yellow card away from a one-game suspension. Liverpool would tear apart a Bailly-Lindelof couple. Could have gone today with Tuanzabe on the left CB. Decisions, decisions … who would be a manager, eh? In fact, this is a risk. For what it’s worth, Bruno Fernandes, Fred and Luke Shaw are two reserves away from a ban (although they would have to get both reserves in the next three games, including this one, after which they can get another five reserves before they are banned) . Burnley’s most reserved players, Jay Rodriguez and Ashley Westwood, are also two cautions away from a ban, and have four more games before the mini yellow card amnesty begins.

Here is photographic evidence that Manchester United players have arrived at Turf Moor. It seems like everyone has to show a photo ID on their phones and have the correct QR code before being let in.

Four changes for Burnley, They bring in Westwood, Pope, Brownhill and Lowton and eliminate Cork, Norris, Stephens and Bardsley. United made many changes to the team that beat Watford, including De Gea, Maguire, Shaw, Pogba, Matic, Rashford, Bruno Fernandes, Martial and Cavani, but the only changes to the team that started their last Premier League match League are Fred. and McTominay leave and Matic and Cavani enter.

Team tokens have been submitted, and tonight’s codenames are these:

Burnley: Pope, Lowton, Tarkowski, Mee, Pieters, Gudmundsson, Brownhill, Westwood, Brady, Wood, Barnes. Subs: Cork, McNeil, Stephens, Rodríguez, Norris, Bardsley, Vydra, Long, Benson.
Man Utd: De Gea, Wan Bissaka, Bailly, Maguire, Shaw, Pogba, Matic, Rashford, Bruno Fernandes, Martial, Cavani. Subs: Mata, Greenwood, Fred, James, Henderson, Alex Telles, van de Beek, Tuanzebe, McTominay.
Referee: Kevin Friend.

Manchester United has won eight and tied two of their last 10 games. They may not have spent much of the season looking like a title-winning team, but that’s the title-winning way, and they start the night second in the table, behind Liverpool on goal difference with this game in hand. Anything but defeat and they’ll sit alone at the top of the league before bed, and the last time they led the league this late in a season like this was eight years ago, Sir Alex Ferguson’s final campaign to win the title. .

“We need to score points against Burnley before anyone can say that you’re at the top of the table, but that’s a position we’ve put ourselves in,” says Ole Gunnar Solskjaer. “So I would like to think that we go to this game without thinking about where we will finish tomorrow night at the table, but where we can finish at the table in May. That’s what matters. You rack up the points throughout the season, so if at one point you think ‘Oh, we’ve done it now, we’ve worked it out’ and you relax, that’s when it will hit you back. So we are very focused. “

Burnley has won four of his last eight and it’s a different perspective than the team that started the season so badly. “I don’t think anyone has doubted [United’s] skill for a long time is to get consistency in the team and win games, ”says Sean Dyche. “They’re showing much stronger signs of that obviously in the last series of games. The main thing is our performance levels, and I think they have strengthened as the season progresses. We ourselves are on a roll. ”

An interesting night potentially awaits, or as interesting as nights involving Dyche’s Burnley ever are (sorry Burnley fans, but I’ve been burned too many times). Let’s share it, shall we?