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    Watford 4-1 Manchester United Match Report

    James BudgenBy James BudgenNovember 20, 2021No Comments4 Mins Read
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    Its another embarrassing score line for Manchester United this season, losing 4-1 away to newly promoted Watford has now seemingly sealed the fate of Ole Gunnar Solskjaer with his job already hanging by the smallest of thread.

    Watford went into half time 2-0 up, through goals from Josh King and Ismaila Sarr, United started the second half brightly, scoring through substitute Donny Van de Beek, before Maguire’s red card stalled the comeback, and two 90th minute goals from Joao Pedro and Emmanuel Bonaventure sealed an amazing victory for Watford.

    🗣 — Solskjaer:

    "That [losing his job] is not for me to worry about. I work as hard and as well as I can with the staff I've got, top people, professional players but at the moment we're not getting the results." #mufc #mujournal

    [@ShamoonHafez]

    — United Journal (@theutdjournal) November 20, 2021

    🗣️ — De Gea:

    "It was embarrassing to see #mufc play like we did today. It's not acceptable — the way we were playing and doing things. It's easy to blame the manager or staff but sometimes it's the players. We need to show much more than we are doing." #mujournal

    [BBC]

    — United Journal (@theutdjournal) November 20, 2021

    Solskjaer reverted back to the 4-2-3-1, after experimenting with the 5-3-2, starting De Gea, Wan-Bissaka, Lindelof, Maguire, Shaw, Matic, McTominay, Sancho, Fernandes, Rashford Ronaldo.

    Claudio Ranieri started Watford in a 4-5-1 shape, starting Foster, Femenia, Cathcart, N’Koulou, Masina, Sarr, Sissoko, Louza, Cleverley, Bonaventure, King.

    Ismaila Sarr of Watford FC has a penalty saved by David De Gea of Manchester United during the Premier League match between Watford and Manchester...
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    The game had a very dramatic start, a sliced clearance by Bruno put Watford through on goal, but before getting the shot off, King was fouled by McTominay from behind, and although Watford got a shot off afterwards, Johnathon Moss pointed to the spot.

    Sarr took the penalty, and De Gea managed to save it, but was parried straight to Femenia to put the rebound in, but was eventually ruled out for encroachment, but the penalty was retaken although Femenia was the furthest inside the box, but history repeated itself as Sarr took the penalty again and De Gea saved it again to keep the score level.

    Watford took the lead in the 28th minute through former United player Josh king, a failed clearance by Wan-Bissaka fell straight to Dennis who ran to the by-line and an easy cutback found King unmarked in the box for an easy tap in.

    David De Gea of Manchester United looks dejected after conceding the first goal during the Premier League match between Watford and Manchester United...
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    Watford doubled their lead just before half time through Ismaila Sarr, it was another easy goal for Watford, a simple cut back from Femenia found Sarr in acres of space inside the box, his control set up an amazing finish across De Gea to double the lead for Watford.

    In the first half United only managed 2 shots on goal compared to Watford’s 11, to try and change his fortunes, Solskjaer brought on Van de Beek and Martial for McTominay and Rashford.

    🗣️ — Solskjaer:

    "The first-half is the worst we've played and it's hard for me to explain why we played the way we did and allowed them to get in our box from nothing. The goalkeeper could go up to the halfway line and put it in the box — we were outfought." #mufc #mujournal

    — United Journal (@theutdjournal) November 20, 2021

    The changes seemed to work straight away, Donny Van de Beek was involved in everything good in the second half, including his goal, Sancho received the ball on the right hand side and whipped in a great ball to Ronaldo, who instead of shooting layed it off to Donny for an open goal to try and ignite a comeback for United.

    United still looked threatening in the 70th minute, they started to create more chances, but Maguire getting sent off halted all hopes of a comeback, Maguire let Cleverley press him, and with a poor touch Cleverley nicked the ball, Maguire dived in and already on a yellow card it was an easy decision for the referee.

    Match referee Jonathon Moss shows a red card to Harry Maguire of Manchester United during the Premier League match between Watford and Manchester...
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    Joao Pedro of Watford FC scores their team's third goal during the Premier League match between Watford and Manchester United at Vicarage Road on...
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    United were able to maintain the one goal difference right up until the end of the game, a good pass from Dennis put Joao Pedro in on goal but still at a tight angle, his very powerful shot went through De Gea’s legs at the near post to seal the win for Watford.

    With the win sealed, Watford put the icing on the cake, Matic was unable to clear his lines, allowing Bonaventure to get the run on him, he was able to get his shot off from the same acute angle and it went across De Gea and found the back of the net.

    United have now lost four of their last five Premier League games, conceding 15 goals in that period, and with this loss coming against a newly promoted team in Watford, it give the board as good of a reason as ever to pull the trigger and bring in the new manager.

    🗣️ — Solskjaer on if he is worried about his job:

    "I'm working for and with #mufc, I've been here for 18 years and we have a good communication and if the club are thinking about doing something that's a conversation between us and not you and me." #mujournal

    [@ShamoonHafez]

    — United Journal (@theutdjournal) November 20, 2021

    There were a couple of positives in this game though, both Donny Van De Beek and Jadon Sancho had their best games in a Manchester United shirt, with Donny getting his first goal of the season with both creating three chances each.

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    • James Budgen

      Year 2 student studying Football Business and Media at UCFB Etihad and Manchester United fan

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