Burnley v Manchester United: Premier League – as it happened | Premier League
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Aha, Jamie Jackson’s report is with us.
That means we’re done here, so thanks for your company and comments, sorry I couldn’t use them all. But otherwise, peace out.
Premier League table
Tonight’s results
Bournemouth 3-2 Spurs
Brentford 3-0 Sunderland
Crystal Palace 0-0 Aston Villa
Everton 1-1 Wolves
Fulham 2-1 Chelsea
Man City 1-1 Brighton
Burnley 2-2 Man United
Newcastle 4-3 Leeds
There’s been a development at St James’ Park!
It’s now 3-3 at St James’.
I said it was a good point for Burnley and, in terms of the relative league positions, it was. But it won’t help them stay up, I don’t suppose, while United are now sixth having missed another chance to cement themselves in the Champions League positions. The state of the teams around them means they’ve still got a decent chance of making fifth, but there are rubber pants with more killer instinct.
FULL-TIME: Burnley 2-2 Manchester United
A good point for Burnley yet another annoying one for United, who played some good stuff but don’t know how to keep clean sheets.
90+5 min Goodness, Lacey fancies this! Again, he comes in off the right, lashing another vicious shot that flies just high and just wide of the top corner. That left foot is a problem.
90+4 min Burnley get the ball to the corner and consume a good minute as United struggle to clear. Foster is then booked for timewasting, and the game is nearly over.
90+2 min Change for Burnley, Sonne replacing Edwards – who’s had a good night.
90+1 min Mainoo does well to hold off Ugochukwu, the kind of strength he needs to show more of it he’s to re-establish himself. Then Mount lofts a ball over the top, but shaw can’t quite read the bounce, knocking it out for a goalkick.
90 min We’ll have five additional minutes. Has any side ceded points to Burnley, West Ham and Wolves this season?
89 min United have had so many chances to move into the top five, and have spaffed every one, failing to beat luminaries such as West Ham, Everton and Wolves. This looks like being another, and the fixtures will soon get harder; meantime, Scott Parker is booked, presumably for a surfeit of pashun and pride.
87 min United now have Mainoo and Mount in the doble-pivote, but when the ball breaks to the edge, the former smashes an effort over the top, Ugarte-style.
86 min “Your draft excluder suggestion made me chuckle,” says Justin Kavanagh. “If it ever happens, I hope the ref joins in the comedic capers by tracing a murder-scene bodily chalkline around the clattered prone player with his foam.”
If only the hilarious Roger Milford was still at it.
85 min And here comes Lacey now, 20 yards out, right-hand side. He dips infield, measures a curler, it shrieks, rips and hisses towards the roof, Dubravka beaten … and cannons the bar before bouncing out! What an effort that was!
84 min Another change for United, Lacey replacing Ugarte in a move that feels almost like a rebuke for Amorim: risking defeat to chase a win.
82 min Martinez, culpable for Burnley’s equaliser, heads clear, Mainoo looks for Sesko and, though the ball doesn’t make it through, United again have Burnley boxed … until Dorgu trips over himself. You don’t believe me, but it’s true.
81 min If United can find a winner, they’ll go fourth, above Brentford and Liverpool – the latter, who play Arsenal tomorrow, only on goal difference. But here they come again, Dorgu again crossing frem the left, but at the near post, Sesko mistimes his finish, diverting the ball into the ground for Dubravka to grab. Immediately, Burnley race downfield, winning a corner…
79 min United are back dictating, but don’t look as likely to score as they did earlier in the half, while Burnley fancy something on the counter.
78 min Yoro collects a clearance and finds Shw down the left, then ducks as the cross comes in, contorting into a decent header that flies just wide with the various who might’ve tapped it home caught on their heels.
76 min Change for Burnley, Lyle Foster replacing Broja.
74 min Yup, those are the changes. Mainoo goes into midfield alongside Ugarte, while Zirkzee, who played well off the bench at Leeds, is now in the 10.
72 min I’m sure the bruno change was premeditated, but I wonder if Fletcher regrets making it so soon after United’s second goal. Meantime, Mainoo and Zirkzee strip – not like that – and will, I imagine, replace Casemiro and Cunha.
72 min United, though, come again, Shaw rapping a pass into Sesko who spins but doesn’t get hold of his shot, saved easily enough by Dubravka.
70 min Suddenly, Burnley are the better team, pinning United back for a minute or two then crowding them out when they counter.
68 min Now Shaw fouls Anthony maybe five yards outside of the box, just right of the D, and Edwards, who’s played well tonight, is behind the ball, Cunha playing draft excluder. One day, temptation will be too great, and someone will just leather a low shot for the fun of it, but this time the effort goes into the wall and United clear.
WHAT A GOAL! Burnley 2-2 Manchester United (Anthony 66)
Edwards slides a ball into Antony on the edge, he turns inside Martinez, who almost offers him the angle, Shaw can’t get to him, and he bends a glorious shot high into the far top corner! Brilliant finish, and classic Wilderness YearsTM behaviour from United.
66 min Under Amorim, United would’ve sat back at this point, inviting pressure on a weak defence. I’m sure Fletcher will want them to try and finish the game, but less sure the players have that in them.
64 min Our early games have finished; headline news is Brighton’s draw at City, meaning Arsenal lead them at the top by five with a game – against Liverpool – in hand. Elsewhere, Leeds are drawing 2-2 at Newcastle, while Bournemouth scored a late winner to beat Spurs and Fulham did for Chelsea.
62 min Back to Sesko, he badly needed those goals. He put himself about first half but his touch was off; now, though, two terrific finishes and he’s on a buzz.
62 min Double change for United, Yoro and Mount on for Heaven and Bruno.
GOAL! Burnley 1-2 Manchester United (Sesko 60)
And that’s why Dorgu is on the left! A one-two with Ugarte, a tremendous cross, and Sesko lanks into a leap, extending a go go Gadget leg while opening his right foot and cushioning a volley past Dubravka.
58 min Change for Burnley, Anthony replacing Hannibal.
57 min Tangentially, why doesn’t Heaven wear 17? There’s surely a temptation?
57 min Bruno picks out Heaven, just a few yards out and alone at the far post … but he heads into his own shoulder. That was a very presentable opportunity.
55 min So United go again, Martinez hitting towards Sesko, whose flick-on lands nicely for Bruno, right of the box. And, under pressure from Humphreys, he laces a shot … which cannons the near post full in the face. The challenge there made all the difference.
55 min Esteve heads the corner clear, United cross again, and this time when it’s knicked away, Cunha thrashes high and wide.
53 min But back come burnley, Broja wriggling and bustling through a pair of weak challenges before being blocked off and winning a corner. Dorgu heass it away, collects his own clearance, finds Cunha who finds Sesko, and attacking the space, he wins a corner at the other end.
52 min That goal was coming: the last 15-20 minutes, either side of half-time, have been all United, and Bruno is just ridiculous. His level of production, in a mainly terrible team, is of a very serious level.
GOAL! Burnley 1-1 Manchester United (Sesko 50)
My days he needed that. As we thought he might, Fernandes slides a pass down the outside of the outside centre-back, right side of the box, and Sesko’s finish is instant, whipped across Dubravka low into the far corner. Of course Tactics Tim would’ve hauled him off at half-time.
49 min United knock it about at the back, Martinez finds Fernandes who finds Cunha, and Burnley, though they clear, are penned in.
47 min Cunha bundles the ball through towards Sesko, who allows Dorgu to take it on … and his shot is blocked. On which point, Cunha is now in the middle of the trident behind the striker, with Bruno on the right.
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