Manchester United 3, Crystal Palace 2
With a great ambiance
at the colossus of Southeast London, Selhurst Park, showing off its best galas
with a sold out and loud signing fan base uploading in high chorus a famous 60’s
tune and waving a sea of red and blue balloons.
By celebrating their Monday
night match, Premiership was to close week 29 between the hosts Crystal Palace
Eagles and their guests the Red Devils of Manchester United.
As the Glaziers in
the campaign lacking certain notable players due to injuries and so far in a
negative skid with back to back losses, today’s match the locals were
determined for everything and looking
forward to deliver an upset over Mou and company.
For the Portuguese
looking forward for the win and with the foe looking a bit easy, still his strategy
and game plan was one not to allow the locals any liberties. Unfortunately he
and his Boys had to put a on a fight until the end.
The locals fight paid
off in the 11 minute when a combination between Christian Benteke contributing
with the assist to Andros Townsend, Crystal Palace initial eleven was putting
on a show of force to its guests and sending this venue into a frantic state of
support.
As their dominance over
the second place Manchester United Boys, considered as a feat with minutes
passing and the game going into halftime and the locals sporting a one-goal
lead, and showing up these having the upper hand.
Second half under way
once again, the locals were showing off their home field advantage in their
favor, three minutes passed by when Palace Jeffrey Schlupp passed to a well-positioned
Patrick van Aanholt in the 48 minute.
Shooting a ball past
United keeper David De Gea for the lead and to the dismay of a furious Jose
Mourinho, not believing his eyes and seeing his squad near collapsing to a
momentum riddled Crystal Palace.
Putting the local’s ahead
in the scoreboard with a 2-0 lead, looking invincible for 54 minutes, until the
Manchester Boys started their reaction and furiously these generated their
first goal via an Antonio Valencia pass to a well-placed Chris Smalling heading
the first goal in the 55.
That put the visitors
on the scoreboard and with plenty of time in the clock, Jose Mourinho after
seeing that goal he started rallying his troops and making his signature moves,
at the end these paid off.
Still as United was
trailing on the scoreboard, then came a fighting Lukaku that after his first
try he missed and to get the ball and finish the play he started by beating the
Glaziers keeper in the 76 to put the score even at 2-2.
However, the locals
still had a lot of energy and desires of not letting this match slipped away, it’s
when the whole of Selhurst almost chorus a goal with Christian Benteke play
being stopped cold by United’s keeper David de Gea.
As the game official awarding
injury time on the clock, it was on the 91 minute when Nemanja Matic sent cannon
of a shoot, sealing the match for Jose Mourinho and his Manchester United siting
pretty in second place.
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