Astana 2-1 Manchester United: Humiliated by the New Club from Kazakhstan

DBasia.news –  The Kazakh club, FC Astana, defeated Manchester United or MU 2-1. Astana conquered the red demons in the European League continuing match which was held at Astana Arena, the turf of FC Astana, Thursday, November 28, 2019, local time.

Astana has originally been defeat in six Europa League matches with a 17-1 aggregate goal. Not only that, Astana also stopped the pace of undefeated to Man United in the Europa League at the amount of 15.

Ole Gunnar Solskjaer changed 11 Manchester United players from the team that previously drew 3-3 against Sheffield United. Lee Grant, Ethan Laird, Di’Shon Bernard, and Dylan Levitt came down to play. Jesse Lingard captained the match.

Man United was immediately ahead when the game ran for 10 minutes. Luke Shaw provided an assist to Jesse Lingard who converted it into a goal. Although Lingard’s first touch was not so good, however, there was a gap between Astana’s defense and Lingard made good use of it. 1-0.

Man United played well for the first 20 minutes. But afterwards, Roman Hryhorchuk’s Astana started to come out to attack and created a number of opportunities. Unfortunately, Astana was not clinical in converting these opportunities.

There was one chance from Dorin Rotariu, Astana midfielder, but his shot was wide of the United’s goal that was guarded by Lee Grant. The first round, plus an additional two minutes to end, Astana 0-1 behind Manchester United.

In the second half Astana tried to increase the intensity of the attacks to catch up. Their patience paid off through an equalizing goal on the 55th minutes. Roman Murtazayev provided an assist that was converted into a goal by Dmitriy Shomko. 1-1.

Di’Shon Bernard and Axel Tuanzebe did not quickly close Man United’s defense when the goal was created. Utilizing that momentum, Astana scored again in minute 62. This time through an own goal by Bernard who tried to block the ball crossed by Astana senior player, Antonio Rukavina.

The ball was deflected by Bernard and Lee Grant couldn’t do much to prevent the goal. Astana were back in the lead with a score of 2-1.

The flow of the match has changed. Astana is no longer aggressively attacking and tried to maintain excellence to seek a historic victory. Sure enough, this time Astana’s defense was hard to break.

Solskjaer has included all substitutions by playing Largie Ramazani, Ethan Galbraith, and D’Mani Bughail-Mellor. But until four minutes of the added time expired, no more goals were created. Astana won 2-1 over Man United.