DBasia.news – Manchester United lost to Watford with a score of 1-4 in the Premier League match at Vicarage Road, Saturday (20/11).
This is United’s biggest defeat at the hands of a promoted club since September 1989. At that time MU lost 1-5 at the hands of Manchester City at Maine Road.
Since the beginning of the match, the wind blew into Watford. When the game had just been running for a matter of minutes, Watford had already received a penalty. But Ismaila Sarr missed the opportunity to make two penalties which were executed by him.
In the first opportunity, Sarr’s shot was denied by De Gea and Kiko had a wild ball thrown in. The referee then decided to repeat the penalty as the Watford player had entered the penalty box when the ball was kicked.
Sarr repeated the penalty, but De Gea was able to save it again.
Watford finally took the lead after Joshua King rattled the Man Utd goal in the 28th minute following a pass from Emmanuel Dennis.
Watford doubled their lead in the 44th minute through Sarr. After receiving the ball from Kiko, Sarr fired low.
Behind two goals, Ole Gunnar Solskjaer decided to field Donny van de Beek and Anthony Martial in the second half. Van de Beek could score a reply in the 50th minute after continuing Ronaldo’s header.
The Red Devils’ efforts to equalize the score got heavier after Harry Maguire was shown a red card in the 69th minute. Maguire received a second yellow card seven minutes from the first.
Watford scored a pair of goals at the end of the match. Joao Pedro was able to beat De Gea through a hard shot after receiving a through ball from Dennis.
Pedro’s goal was followed by Dennis at the end of the match. Watford closed the game with a 4-1 win over Man Utd.
Lineup:
Watford (4-1-4-1): Ben Foster; Kiko, Craig Cathcart, Nicolas N’Koulou (William Troost-Ekong 64), Adam Masina; Moussa Sissoko; Ismaila Sarr (Juan Hernandez 68), Imran Louza (Joao Pedro 77), Tom Cleverley, Emmanuel Dennis; Joshua King.
Manchester United (4-2-3-1): David de Gea; Aaron wan-Bissaka, Victor Lindelof, Harry Maguire, Luke Shaw (Diogo Dalot 85); Scott McTominay (Donny van de Beek 46), Nemanja Matic; Jadon Sancho (Jesse Lingard 90), Bruno Fernandes, Marcus Rashford (Anthony Martial 46); Cristiano Ronaldo.