Ruben Amorim and Manchester United had been left with a well-recognized sinking feeling as Bruno Fernandes missed a second-half penalty in a 3-1 defeat at Brentford.
Bryan Mbeumo made his return to west London following his transfer to United within the switch window, nevertheless it proved to be an sad one, with a 20-minute double from Igor Thiago placing Brentford in command.
Benjamin Sesko’s first purpose for United within the twenty sixth minute gave the Crimson Devils hope and so they appeared primed to stage once they had been awarded a 71st-minute penalty. Nonetheless, his 12-yard effort was tame and simply saved, and substitute Mathias Jensen’s elegant strike from the sting of the world in stoppage time made certain of the factors for the Bees.
Any constructive momentum from their 2-1 win over Chelsea extinguished, United drop to thirteenth within the desk, with Brentford shifting above them into eleventh.
Brentford v Manchester United
United confirmed some solely promising indicators going ahead however had been caught chilly by Thiago, who managed to remain onside as Harry Maguire stepped up whereas enjoying a really excessive line of defense and latched onto Jordan Henderson’s lengthy ball ahead earlier than lashing a vicious effort past Altay Bayindir and into the top-left nook.
Brentford piled the stress on thereafter, with Bayindir required to maintain out close-range headers from each Henderson and Nathan Collins after Matheus Cunha had fired vast on the different finish.
But there was nothing Bayindir may do as Thiago doubled his tally, turning residence after the United goalkeeper had turned Kevin Schade’s low cross from the left into his path.
United, although, discovered a method again into the competition by way of Sesko, who pounced on Patrick Dorgu’s excessive ball into the field and transformed on the third time of asking following successive saves from Caoimhin Kelleher.
Possibilities had been much less plentiful within the second half, although Bayindir wanted to provide a fantastic save to stop Dango Ouattara from restoring Brentford’s two-goal benefit within the 63rd minute following extra good from the work from the spectacular Schade.
Eight minutes later United had been gifted a golden probability for an equaliser when Collins pulled again former team-mate Mbeumo and Craig Pawson finally pointed to the spot.
However the delay in VAR confirming the choice and deciding if Collins’ yellow card needs to be upgraded had an hostile affect on Fernandes, whose poor low penalty was repelled by Kelleher.
Amid United’s desperation to discover a leveller, they had been caught by the sucker punch, with Jensen’s sensible bending shot leaving Bayindir with no probability.
