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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 lots of possibilities, had 3 times as many photographs as Forest with Diogo Dalot hitting the publish whereas Harry Maguire’s effort was scrambled off the road nevertheless it was to not be on the night time.
The dearth of cutting-edge up prime was responsible whereas Ruben Amorim’s determination to modify issues up by overlooking in-form stars made zero sense.
Indecisive from Mazraoui
Whereas the pinnacle coach will seemingly level to his group’s deficiencies in assault, his weird determination 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 reality, Yoro ought to the way it was accomplished with a superb last-ditch sort out to cease the pacey Swede.
And after a superb previous few weeks, the previous Bayern Munich man regarded 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, successful solely seven out of 15 floor duels and certainly one of 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 by way of sofascore).
Hopefully, Amorim won’t unnecessarily change issues within the video games to return and permit Mazraoui to play because the right-sided centre-back, a place during which he’s much more comfy.
Function picture Michael Regan by way of Getty Photographs
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