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Manchester United returned to Premier League motion with a 0-1 defeat by the hands of Nottingham Forest on the Metropolis Floor on Tuesday.
The house facet did the double over the Crimson Devils for the primary time with former Carrington graduate Anthony Elanga scoring the winner.
The guests created plenty of possibilities, had thrice as many pictures as Forest with Diogo Dalot hitting the put up whereas Harry Maguire’s effort was scrambled off the road but it surely was to not be on the night time.
The dearth of cutting-edge up high was accountable whereas Ruben Amorim’s resolution to modify issues up by overlooking in-form stars made zero sense.
Indecisive from Mazraoui
Whereas the top coach will possible level to his staff’s deficiencies in assault, his weird resolution to play Noussair Mazraoui because the left-sided centre-back as a substitute of Leny Yoro finally value the 20-time English league champions the sport.
The Moroccan, who was the final man standing for a lot of of Forest’s counter-attacks, saved backing off and allowed Elanga a free run at aim.
He was indecisive lots of the instances and he lacked the tempo Yoro has and the Frenchman was a revelation on the left earlier than his harm. In actual fact, Yoro ought to the way it was executed with a superb last-ditch sort out to cease the pacey Swede.
And after a superb previous couple of weeks, the previous Bayern Munich man seemed a legal responsibility as he allowed Forest attackers to dribble previous him 4 instances.
His mistake led to the aim
The 27-year-old received solely 40 p.c of his duels, profitable solely seven out of 15 floor duels and one among 5 aerial battles. He additionally misplaced possession a mammoth 12 instances.
The ex-Ajax ace gave away two fouls and accomplished solely 50 p.c of his long-ball makes an attempt. He made three clearances, and accomplished two interceptions.
On the ball, the Morocco worldwide ended the sport with a 89 p.c passing accuracy and had one key go and accomplished one out of three dribbles (all stats through sofascore).
Hopefully, Amorim is not going to unnecessarily change issues within the video games to come back and permit Mazraoui to play because the right-sided centre-back, a place by which he’s way more comfy.
Characteristic picture Michael Regan through Getty Photographs
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