The Pink Devils suffered an sudden defeat towards their 14th-placed opponents.
Aston Villa defeated Manchester United 3-1 of their Premier League recreation on Sunday. A composed show from the hosts noticed United undergo their first defeat in ten video games at Villa Park.
Ronaldo captains Pink Devils!
Much like Man Utd’s final two video games, Erik ten Hag began Cristiano Ronaldo up entrance. The Portuguese celebrity additionally wore his facet’s armband because of the absence of his country-man Bruno Fernandes.
United’s midfield line, nevertheless, didn’t impress with out Fernandes. Daniel van de Beek was hardly ever efficient behind Ronaldo, whereas Casemiro struggled to seek out his ft within the recreation early on.
Leon Baily opened the scoring for the hosts solely the seventh minute into the sport earlier than Lucas Digne made it 2-0 shortly after.
Digne’s sensible free-kick put extra stress on the company to push for a objective earlier than half-time. The Pink Devils lastly obtained again into the sport by way of Jacob Ramsey’s personal objective simply earlier than the break.
Following a poor clearance from Ramsey, Luke Shaw rifled a robust shot which discovered the again of the online after a big deflection off Ramsey’s physique.
United pushed arduous to flee the defeat within the second interval. However Villa held them at bay by showing an increasing number of harmful within the counter-attacks.
The victory marks an ideal return to the Premier League for Unai Emery, who took cost at Aston Villa earlier this week.
The 2 sides will lock horns once more after they lock horns in a Carabao Cup conflict at Previous Trafford on Thursday.
