EPL: Man Utd beat Chelsea to ease pressure on Amorim

Manchester United eased the unit connected beleaguered brag Ruben Amorim with a chaotic 2-1 triumph against Chelsea arsenic some teams finished with 10 men astatine Old Trafford.

Fighting to debar the sack aft a woeful commencement to the season, Amorim received a invited boost erstwhile Chelsea goalkeeper Robert Sanchez was sent disconnected aft conscionable 5 minutes of Saturday’s clash.

Bruno Fernandes rapidly enactment United up with his 100th extremity for the nine successful each competitions successful his 200th Premier League appearance.

Casemiro doubled United’s pb earlier the Brazil midfielder was dismissed for a 2nd booking successful first-half stoppage time.

Trevoh Chalobah’s precocious reply for Chelsea acceptable up a tense finale, but United held connected for conscionable their 2nd triumph successful six matches successful each competitions this term.

Having kicked disconnected languishing conscionable supra the relegation zone, Amorim’s broadside climbed to ninth spot to springiness the Portuguese manager a small breathing space.

“I felt the urgency. Of people the Sanchez sending disconnected helped america but we had the reddish paper with Casemiro. We similar to complicate our crippled always,” Amorim said.

“It is truly important to triumph due to the fact that I recognize the concern astir this club.

“I person thing to accidental to the critics and astir of the clip they are right. Today we won and it is simply a bully time for us.”

Amorim, who has won conscionable 9 of his 32 Premier League matches, shouldn’t remainder connected his laurels conscionable yet.

Chelsea’s Spanish goalkeeper #01 Robert Sanchez collides with Manchester United’s Cameroonian midfielder #19 Bryan Mbeumo during the English Premier League shot lucifer betwixt Manchester United and Chelsea astatine Old Trafford successful Manchester, northbound westbound England, connected September 20, 2025. (Photo by Oli SCARFF / AFP)

After presiding implicit United’s lowest top-flight decorativeness since 1973-74 and a limp Europa League last nonaccomplishment to Tottenham past term, Amorim spent large successful the summertime to overhaul his moribund team.

But United suffered an embarrassing League Cup exit astatine fourth-tier Grimsby successful August earlier past weekend’s 3-0 nonaccomplishment astatine Manchester City underlined the immense gulf to their rivals.

Former Sporting Lisbon brag Amorim, who replaced the sacked Erik 10 Hag successful November, insists helium retains the backing of co-owner Jim Ratcliffe aft speaking to the British billionaire astatine the club’s grooming crushed connected Thursday.

Ratcliffe was successful the directors container astatine rain-lashed Old Trafford to spot if his enactment for Amorim was good placed.

– Amorim alleviation –

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 with a reckless challenge.

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 minu...