Manchester United boss Erik ten Hag will discover himself underneath early-season scrutiny as soon as once more after he watched his facet succumb to a ninety fifth minute aim from Joao Pedro in a 2-1 defeat at Brighton.
After United didn’t clear a nook, Pedro was readily available to move dwelling a cross from Simon Adingra to safe a second straight victory for Brighton on Saturday at the beginning of the season underneath new coach Fabian Hurzeler.
It is a end result that can be additional powerful for United to take because the guests had a possible winner dominated out within the seventieth minute for an nearly comical offside.
Alejandro Garnacho’s shot from a good angle was heading into an empty web when it deflected off the knee of the sliding Joshua Zirkzee simply earlier than it crossed the road – inflicting the aim to be dominated out because the Dutch striker was offside.
Zirkzee had come on as a sub to attain an 87th-minute winner towards Fulham in United’s season opener and the summer season signing was as soon as once more on the bench at Brighton, with ten Hag enjoying Bruno Fernandes as a false 9 as a substitute.
It was a former United ahead who opened the scoring, as Danny Welbeck was readily available to fit in a cross from Kaoru Mitoma within the thirty second.
Welbeck almost doubled Brighton’s lead when his header from a nook hit the crossbar within the 58th, and United equalised from a fast counter-attack simply two minutes later.
Amad Diallo minimize in from the suitable and noticed his shot deflected into the online by the sliding Jan Paul van Hecke.
