Sancho draws a brilliant play to score the first. Photo: AFP
Casemiro’s arrival in Manchester brought luck to the Dutchman’s team Erik Ten Hag what rHe played his best game of recent times. It is that, before the eyes of the former Real Madrid who saw everything from the stalls of Old Trafford, the Red Devils have returned to victory and won the classic against Liverpool.
With Lisandro Martínez from the start and with just five minutes of Cristiano Ronaldo, United started with everything and took the place of Klopp’s men. Sancho opened the score with a great goal and Rashford scored the second. Later, Mohamed Salah woke up Liverpool which ultimately cornered Manchester.
He played eight games without losing against Manchester United and Liverpool. Five wins and three draws summed up the recent head-to-head between the two. The Old Trafford box came out blushing every time the reds were measured, intractable. Paradox of fate, the locals took advantage of the visit of their main rival to take off and transfer the doubts to the opponent who was at the bottom of the ranking.
It looked like the eleven established by Erik Ten Hag, without Neither Cristiano Ronaldo nor central Harry Maguire, who paid for the broken pots for the win against Brentfordwanted to surprise Luis Henrique Casemiro, installed in the box of his new stadium after walking around the pitch in the preamble to greet his new fans.
It is that those of Ten Hag went to eat Jurgen Klopp’s team that did not have in their ranks the Uruguayan Darwin Núñez, suspended, the Portuguese Diogo Jota or the Spanish midfielder Thiago Alcántara, injured.
Accumulated opportunities in the Liverpool area. Young Swede Anthony Elanga was a stormy one in his lane, the left, and it was there that he found a good option. After ten minutes, United managed to score in a split ball on the edge of the area that Bruno Fernandes reached early to give it to Elanga, who shot at the post with Alisson beaten.
And six later came the first goal. It is Elanga who remained alone on the left and sent the ball into the heart of the area. There was Jadon Sancho who showed all his talent to finish perfectly. He stopped the ball and James Milner fell to the ground before the attacker’s threats. Virgil Van Dijk does not react and the local player shoots for the goal.
No news from Liverpool. Mohamed Salah had disappeared. Luis Díaz and Roberto Firmino also did not take the ball. A lateral foul from Christian Eriksen could have been second for the locals, but Alisson was careful.
Klopp’s team woke up in the final stretch before the break as Manchester United began to feel the strain of all its intensity. He was able to tie in a bad carom. A bad pass from Bruno Fernandes that was avoided by the Argentine Lisandro Martínez when he took the ball on the goal line.
Ten Hag refreshed his attack and moved the bench during the break. He removed Elanga, one of the most important. But he didn’t turn to Cristiano. He eliminated Anthony Martial who at the first opportunity led to the second goal for the Red Devils. He assisted Rashford in space, who went on the break and beat Alisson again.
The party went crazy. United managed to sign the third, inspired as Liverpool and their manager were overwhelmed, without resources, without solution. He pushes only by inertia, without sense and without expecting David De Gea until the 82nd minute when he suffers a goal from Mohamed Salah who takes advantage of a rebound from a great save from a shot by Fabio Carvalho.
This changed the landscape. Liverpool have grown and United have suffered. Ten Hag turned to Cristiano Ronaldo who entered the field in the 86th minute alongside Aaron Wan-Bissaka and Donny Dan de Beek to contain the desperate push of the guests and finish the job against any space.
It went well. You contained the thrust and secured victory. Manchester United are breathing and Liverpool are sinking.
With information from EFE
Source: Clarin
