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Townsend celebrates Crystal Palace’s opening goal – Photo: REUTERS
Before Man Utd was much more appreciated, Crystal Palace actively played a defensive counterattack early on and the visitors surprised with the opening goal very early.
At 7 minutes, from a quick ball down the left wing, Jeffrey Schlupp accelerated to catch his teammate’s slit and then crossed to the penalty area.
Defender Man Utd made a mistake on the fixture, giving Andros Townsend a chance from behind to hit De Gea’s cross corner kick, giving Crystal Palace a 1-0 lead.
After the goal, Crystal Palace continued to play well with a defensive counterattack stance. Even if Jordan Ayew, Wilfried Zaha … had a better finish the next few times, the visitors had a double goal in the first half.
Zaha celebrated the goal to increase the score to 2-0 for Crystal Palace – Photo: REUTERS
Meanwhile, despite continued attack and full control of the game after being awarded, the day stars Paul Pogba, Marcus Rashford, Anthony Martial … all played below the Man Utd attack line. Deadlock and failure to overcome Crystal Palace’s massive defense.
Not only playing in stalemate, Man Utd was also unlucky with VAR. In the 70th minute, receiving the signal from the VAR referee team, referee Martin Atkinson stopped the game to review the slow motion. And he gave the visitors a penalty for touching the ball into midfielder Victor Lindelof’s penalty area.
At the end of the 11 meters, goalkeeper De Gea shone by successfully blocking Jordan Ayew’s shot. However, when the Man Utd players were still not happy, the VAR spoke again when it caught the first play from goalkeeper De Gea and referee Atkinson sanctioned the Crystal Palace players.
Van de Beek scored on debut but still couldn’t save Man Utd – Photo: REUTERS
This time, forward Wilfried Zaha took over the free kick and easily defeated goalkeeper De Gea at the 11-meter mark, making it 2-0 for Crystal Palace.
With nothing to lose, Man Utd put all his strength to attack in the remaining minutes. Hope shone for the home team when rookie Donny van de Beek took a quick shot to cut the score to 1-2 for Man Utd after an error by the visiting defense in the 81st minute.
However, with poor defense, Man Utd had to collect the ball for the third time right after in a simple attack from the visitors.
The joy of the Crystal Palace players after Zaha increased the score to 3-1 – Photo: REUTERS
In the 81st minute, from the left wing, the ball went through the center for Wilfried Zaha. Midfielder Victor Lindelof made a mistake in the blocking situation, giving Zaha a chance to win the ball and then fired the ball into the near corner of goalkeeper De Gea, setting up a 3-1 victory for Crystal Palace.
By losing a blow to a weak opponent at home in the opening match (Man Utd’s first round has not kicked), coach Ole Gunnar Solskjaer proved he has a lot of work to do to help Man Utd compete for the championship with rivals Liverpool, Manchester City, Chelsea …
