Manchester United suffered a 2-0 defeat to Chelsea at Stamford Bridge in the Premier League today.
United head coach Michael Carrick made three changes to his starting XI, including bringing Bruno Fernandes in for Youri Tielemans.
The visitors cut through Chelsea’s defence several times in the first half, but Bruno Fernandes, Amad Diallo and Matheus Cunha were guilty of squandering their opportunities.
United were clearly the better side in the first half but they lost complete control after the interval.
Morgan Rogers scored a stunning individual goal in the 50th minute. The Red Devils panicked, but Lisandro Martinez lost his head as he picked up two yellow cards within the space of four minutes.
Cole Palmer kept his cool from the spot, doubling Chelsea’s lead.
Attention will now turn to INEOS to see whether they will make a managerial change ahead of the next game.
Player Ratings
Senne Lammens – 5/10
Good diving save to deny Estevao and nearly saved the penalty. Overall, another average performance in front of a horror defence.
Leny Yoro – 5/10
Continues to outperform his fellow defenders despite playing out of position.
Harry Maguire – 5/10
Saw Wesley Fofana making mistakes and appeared to catch the same virus, allowing Pedro Neto to dispossess him. Fortunately, the resulting shot went wide.
Produced a brilliant challenge to deny Cole Palmer a tap-in that would have made it 3-0.
Lisandro Martinez – 0/10
Was completely outplayed by Rogers for the opening goal before making a reckless challenge during a corner to earn his second yellow card.
He must apologise to fans, teammates and to the coaching staff.
Diogo Dalot – 3/10
Not good at left-back. Not good at right-back. Eights years at Old Trafford and still cannot do the basics right.
Andrey Santos – 3/10
Santos came very close to putting United ahead. However, he should have done better to stop Rogers from scoring the opening goal. That is the main job of a defensive midfielder.
Carlos Baleba – 4/10
A few good moments but has tendency to give the ball away.
Bruno Fernandes – 4/10
Fernandes blazed over the bar when clean through on goal against Mike Penders following a rapid Man Utd counter-attack.
He was also at fault for giving the ball away in the build-up to Chelsea’s third goal that was ruled offside.
Amad Diallo – 5/10
Tested Penders with a good effort towards the near post but squandered a glorious one-on-one opportunity.
Matheus Cunha – 4/10
Mbeumo played him through on goal, but a heavy touch allowed the opportunity to slip away. He later found the net, only for his effort to be ruled out for offside.
Bryan Mbeumo – 5/10
Put the goal on a plate for Fernandes in the first half but failed to make the most of the opportunity when the Portuguese midfielder returned the favour. Also struck the crossbar in the second half.
Substitutes
Kobbie Mainoo – 5/10
Lost the plot amid Lisandro Martinez trouble.
Mason Mount – 4/10
Waste of a number seven jersey.
Ayden Heaven – 5/10
Should start next game.
Joshua Zirkzee – 5/10
Not good enough but still could start next game. This shows how poor INEOS have been in their squad rebuild.