EPL: Better for Mbeumo to score than Sanchez red card – Maresca

By Emmanuel Okogba with bureau report

Chelsea brag Enzo Maresca has faulted goalkeeper Robert Sánchez aft his aboriginal determination to foul Brentford’s Bryan Mbeumo and getting sent off, saying conceding a extremity was preferable to going a antheral down.

Mbeumo who was done connected extremity was hacked down by an onrushing Sanchez to forestall a definite extremity wrong the opening minutes astatine Old Trafford. The Spaniard was past sent disconnected by referee Peter Bankes for the reckless challenge, starring to a fig of substitutes arsenic the Chelsea brag tried to negociate that outcome.

“It was amended to fto Mbeumo people than get a reddish card,” Maresca said successful a post-match comment.

“We inactive had 95 minutes to play. Robert is alert of that. It’s difficult, but if you inquire me, I similar to beryllium 1 extremity down aft 5 minutes than 1 subordinate down.”

Manchester United went connected to triumph the lucifer 2-1 with goals from Bruno Fernandes and Casemiro who besides got sent disconnected aft 2 yellowish paper offences.

Chelsea were hoping to get backmost to winning ways aft drafting their past Premier League fixture with Brentford 2-2 and losing 3-1 to Bayern Munich successful the Champions League.

With tempest clouds gathering for Amorim, helium stuck with his much-criticised 3-4-3 enactment aft joking this week that adjacent the Pope could not marque him alteration his tactics.

The determination paid dividends arsenic the erratic Sanchez rashly raced retired of his punishment country successful a bid to wide earlier Bryan Mbeumo could scope Benjamin Sesko’s flick, but alternatively sent the United guardant crashing to the turf.

It was a wide reddish paper for denying a goal-scoring accidental and determination were nary complaints from Chelsea astir their quickest ever Premier League dismissal.

Filip Jorgensen replaced Sanchez successful extremity arsenic Maresca took disconnected wingers Estevao Willian and Pedro Neto successful a antiaircraft determination that instantly backfired.

United went for the jugular and took the pb successful the 14th infinitesimal erstwhile Fernandes, played conscionable onside by Chalobah, timed his tally perfectly to conscionable Patrick Dorgu’s header with a objective decorativeness from 4 yards.

Chelsea’s misery mounted erstwhile England guardant Cole Palmer was forced disconnected with an evident recurrence of a groin injury, making it a singular 3 substitutions successful lone 21 minutes for the Blues.

For once, the luck was each going Amorim’s mode and Chelsea imploded to acquisition United their 2nd extremity successful the 37th minute.

Jorgensen stood rooted to the spot arsenic Reece James’s sliced clearance was headed connected by Harry Maguire to Casemiro, who nodded location from adjacent scope for his archetypal league extremity successful 11 months.

Casemiro, booked for an earlier foul connected Enzo Fernandez, saw reddish connected the changeable of half-time aft needlessly pulling backmost Andrey Santos.

United struggled to find immoderate bushed successful the 2nd fractional and Chalobah reduced the shortage successful the 80th infinitesimal erstwhile helium roseate unmarked to conscionable James’s transverse with a almighty header that flashed past Altay Bayindir from 12 yards.

It was excessively precocious to halt Chelsea slumping to their archetypal league decision this play arsenic Amorim breathed a suspiration of relief.

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