{"id":225252,"date":"2025-10-25T20:03:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-25T20:03:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/225252\/"},"modified":"2025-10-25T20:03:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-25T20:03:07","slug":"manchester-united-build-momentum-as-bryan-mbeumo-double-sinks-brighton-premier-league","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/225252\/","title":{"rendered":"Manchester United build momentum as Bryan Mbeumo double sinks Brighton | Premier League"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Ruben Amorim pirouette and revolving fist-pump greeted Bryan Mbeumo putting Manchester United<\/a> 3-0 up and told the tale of how precious this third consecutive league victory was.<\/p>\n

But the goal came on 61 minutes and still United found themselves clinging on at 3-2 deep into added time before Mbeumo smashed home his second, after the Cameroonian ran on to Kobbie Mainoo\u2019s pass from the centre circle. Almost instantly Anthony Taylor blew for time and \u201cGlory, glory Man United\u201d was blared from the PA.<\/p>\n

So Brighton, winners of the three of the last four meetings, motor back to the south coast defeated and Amorim\u2019s unit are initially up to fourth, behind Manchester City on goal difference.<\/p>\n

The Portuguese will not be happy at the late near-capitulation but can be content with how Mbuemo\u2019s first strike was the second goalscoring triumph of his tactic of having Luke Shaw move up from left centre-back to harry Georginio Rutter. In the buildup Shaw certainly fouled the No 10, but the video assistant referee was not be interested, and thus United took charge and put Mbeumo in via a cute Benjamin Sesko pass. The Cameroonian\u2019s 20-yard finish went through Lewis Dunk\u2019s legs and beat Bart Verbruggen to the goalkeeper\u2019s near, left side.<\/p>\n

Cut to the head coach\u2019s celebration and verses of \u201cRuben Amorim, Ruben Amorim\u201d from the ecstatic home fans, who heralded at the close, too, a third consecutive Premier League<\/a> win in the same season for a first time since February 2024.<\/p>\n

Danny Welbeck (left) watches his free-kick clear the Manchester United wall for Brighton\u2019s first goal. Photograph: Oli Scarff\/AFP\/Getty Images<\/p>\n

Yet this was confirmed only after Patrick Dorgu\u2019s pulling down of Yankuba Minteh precipitated United conceding twice. First, the wing-back saw Danny Welbeck blaze a free-kick beyond Senne Lammens, the United goalkeeper surely unhappy not to save as the ball went at him rather than to a corner. Then, in added time James Milner\u2019s corner from the right caught United slumbering and the unmarked Charalampos Kostoulas headed in.<\/p>\n

In all this were signs of the work in progress United are, but it finished as a good day\u2019s work that began with two penalty shouts being turned down by Taylor. An Amad Diallo jink past Maxim De Cuyper caused the left-back to clip him but the referee was not interested \u2013 to home ire. Further fury followed when Dunk seemed to grab Mbeumo in the area, but again Taylor said no.<\/p>\n

Amorim spoke of attitude being key and his men kept on and got the reward of the opener. The ball dropped to Bruno Fernandes, whose instant no-look pass to Casemiro was a moment to grace a 300th United appearance. The Brazilian tapped the ball left to Matheus Cunha and a touch to tee it up was followed by a superb driving finish that skimmed past a flailing Verbruggen\u2019s fingertips into the bottom left corner.<\/p>\n

This was the \u00a362.5m summer signing\u2019s first goal, in his 10th appearance. If \u201cabout time\u201d is a fair call on the strike\u2019s arrival, United\u2019s delight soon doubled as Amorim\u2019s deployment of Shaw as a central zone pickpocket hit the first jackpot.<\/p>\n

Amad Diallo hitches a ride on Casemiro after the latter scored Manchester United\u2019s second goal. Photograph: Martin Rickett\/PA<\/p>\n

A Jan Paul van Hecke pass aimed for Rutter was nicked from him by Shaw. Casemiro took aim from 25-yards or so, the ball deflected off Yasin Ayari, left Verbruggen stranded, and in rolled United\u2019s second.<\/p>\n

skip past newsletter promotion<\/a><\/p>\n

Sign up to Football Daily<\/p>\n

Kick off your evenings with the Guardian’s take on the world of football<\/p>\n

Privacy Notice: Newsletters may contain information about charities, online ads, and content funded by outside parties. If you do not have an account, we will create a guest account for you on theguardian.com<\/a> to send you this newsletter. You can complete full registration at any time. For more information about how we use your data see our Privacy Policy<\/a>. We use Google reCaptcha to protect our website and the Google Privacy Policy<\/a> and Terms of Service<\/a> apply.<\/p>\n

Amorim\u2019s men cruised and it should have been even better by the break\u2019s arrival. Slick interplay involving Fernandes put Sesko in but, yards out, a wild slice from the No 9 missed the target.<\/p>\n

As did Rutter, at the other end, though he may have been hurt moments before, impeding his movement. There was, though, zero excuse for the amateurish effort Carlos Baleba ballooned over as the second half began \u2013 hardly a prime advert for a player wanted by United in the last window.<\/p>\n

Seconds later, Fernandes showed Baleba how it should be done. Cunha found Diallo deep in Brighton\u2019s area, he picked his captain out, and Fernandes\u2019s pile-driver stung Verbruggen when he repelled it. The keeper saved again when Sesko\u2019s radar located the goal but the attempt went straight at him.<\/p>\n

Lammens had to be far more alert when a curving Minteh cross missed everyone and was sneaking into the right corner before, quicksilver-like, the keeper tipped it out.<\/p>\n

So this closed as United\u2019s only home outing in 50 days, starting with the win over Sunderland<\/a> on 4 October: a fine way to sign off.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Ruben Amorim pirouette and revolving fist-pump greeted Bryan Mbeumo putting Manchester United 3-0 up and told the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":225253,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-225252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-football","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=225252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225252\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/225253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}