Man Utd's penultimate pre-season fixture ended in defeat after Joao Felix's past due aim for Atletico Madrid in Oslo. Erik ten Hag's men were the higher facet in the contest, but didn't convert several possibilities. In the final degrees, Joao Felix became performed in Alvaro Morata and he made no mistake beyond De Gea. United's afternoon led to frustration as Fred became disregarded for a 2nd yellow for kicking out at Morata.
The Dutchman fielded a full power crew for this one except for Cristiano Ronaldo and United got off to a quick start which noticed them dominate the opening 15 mins. Rashford examined Oblak at his near submit after which Martial should have scored after five mins after a misjudgement from Gimenez, however he hit over the bar. However, the game steadily modified.
Chances started to dry up and Diego Simeone's men picked up. In the fifteenth minute, Yannick Carrasco's loose-kick became no longer dealt with and Angel Correa did not hit the target. That stated, there had been only a few goalscoring possibilities within the first 45 and tensions were going for walks high. After McTominay charged into goalkeeper Jan Oblak, there has been a fight which caused each players seeing yellow.
The half of ended with Elanga being denied by way of Oblak after being performed in via Rashford at the same time as Kondogbia headed a nook huge at the opposite quit, however zero-0 was a very honest rating.
In the second half of, it did not look like there would be intention early on. Atletico changed almost their complete team inside the sixtieth minute except Oblak and Reinildo while Man Utd simply made slow changes on occasion. Eriksen, Malacia and Van de Beek came on for the final 20 minutes and that made United a whole lot extra dangerous.
Malacia ran ahead in the 74th minute and got into the box before firing narrowly over the crossbar at the same time as Harry Maguire inexplicably headed huge an Eriksen nook from six yards out in spite of being completely unmarked. With seven mins to go, Rashford and Pellistri both had opportunities to score and Man Utd's wastefulness ended up being punished.
Man Utd misplaced the ball of their very own half of, Atleti countered at velocity thru Morata and he laid off for Joao Felix who beat David de Gea to his right. It changed into a lead Atletico Madrid did now not deserve, however Man Utd had plenty of probabilities to win the sport in advance. The purpose become a bitter blow to United and frustration got the better of them in stoppage time as Fred, who had already visible yellow, was sent off. He kicked Alvaro Morata two times from in the back of after which jumped at the Spaniard's chest with his studs showing in a clear act of violent conduct.
Norwegian referee Espen Eskas determined just to punish the first offence and Fred changed into given his matching orders for a 2nd bookable offence. It changed into a disappointing result for Erik ten Hag's men who will need to improve in the front of purpose once the Premier League campaign begins. However, there had been positives to take from the sport, mainly the performances of Tyrell Malacia and Christian Eriksen. Erik ten Hag's guys have one final friendly on Sunday against Rayo Vallecano and Cristiano Ronaldo might be the big name enchantment at Old Trafford.
