Manchester United (MU) failed to continue its positive trend after losing to Fulham in the 26th week of the 2023-2024 Premier League.
Taking place at Old Trafford, MU was forced to bend the knee with a score of 1-2 to Fulham on Saturday (24/2/2024) evening WIB.
Fulham took the lead first through Calvin Bassey via a corner kick (65').
Meanwhile, MU equalized through Harry Maguire's feet with a rebound (89').
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In injury time, Fulham surprisingly managed to reverse the position to 1-2 through Alex Iwobi (90+7').
With this result, MU is still stuck in 6th position with 44 points.
On the other hand, the positive trend of the Red Devils' four consecutive wins in the Premier League broke at the hands of Fulham. This is MU's first defeat in 2024.
Meanwhile, Fulham, even though they got 3 points, they have not been able to move from 12th place with 32 points.
MU vs Fulham statistics
Final Result: MU 1-2 Fulham
Ball Possession: MU 57-43 Fulham
Shots on Target: MU 9-5 Fulham
Corner: MU 10-9 Fulham
Yellow Card: MU 2-5 Fulham
The course of the match
Looking at the formation of the two teams, both MU and Fulham are compact by using 4-2-3-1.
On the MU side, in the absence of Rasmus Hojlund, Erik ten Hag put Marcus Rashford as his spearhead.
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The same thing can also be seen from MU's left back, Victor Lindelof, who had to fill the vacancy in this position after several of his colleagues suffered injuries.
Five minutes later, Fulham as the visiting team appeared to put pressure on MU's defense.
Continuing to attack, Fulham's first golden opportunity finally appeared in the 18th minute.
Alex Iwobi created a good opportunity for himself to score from mid-range, unfortunately his shot hit MU's left post.
Fulham had their second chance again in the 21st minute. However, Rodrigo Muniz's header was saved by Andre Onana.
The first yellow card came out in the 25th minute after Tosin Adarabioyo brought down his opponent on purpose.
In the 27th minute, it was MU's turn to get a golden opportunity. Unfortunately, Alejandro Garnacho's hard kick from outside the penalty box was blocked by a Fulham player.
Again, MU got a chance from a long distance kick in the 32nd minute. Now it's Diogo Dalot's turn to try his luck.
However, Dalot's kick still hit Fulham's right goal post.
Harry Maguire received a yellow card after stepping on the opponent's foot (36').
In the 39th minute, Andre Onana made a brilliant save by successfully parrying Andreas Pereira's kick.
Bernd Leno performed brilliantly by parrying Garnacho's kick (41').
There was no chance of the 0-0 score remaining until halftime.
In the second half, both teams were still comfortable with their line-ups.
However, after a few minutes, MU was seen making two substitutions.
By withdrawing Casemiro and Forson and including Scott McTominay and Eriksen (53').
In the 64th minute, Onana performed brilliantly by parrying the ball and resulting in a corner kick.
Fulham didn't waste the corner kick, Calvin Bassey, who was standing free, got the ball and managed to tear the MU goal.
Behind 1-0, MU tried to recover by pressing Fulham's defense.
Sure enough, Harry Maguire managed to equalize the score at 1-1 in the 89th minute.
Unfortunately, in the minute of injury time, Fulham managed to reverse the position through Alex Iwobi's feet (90+7').
There was no chance of creating a 1-2 score for Fulham's advantage to last until the match was over.
Lineup
United (4-2-3-1)
Onana; Varane, Maguire, Lindelof, Diogo Dalot; Casemiro, Kobie Mainoo; O. Forson, Fernandes, Garnacho; Rashford.
Fulham (4-2-3-1)
Bernd Leno; Adarabioyo, Castagne, Bassey, Robinson; Lukic, Reed; Pereira, Wilson, A. Iwobi; R. Muniz.