The 26-year-old joined the Old Trafford side in a \u00a362.5 million ($84m) deal from Wolves, where he scored 17 times in all competitions last term and equalled the most goals by a Brazilian in a Premier League<\/a> campaign with 15.<\/p>\n Cunha has impressed in his first few months at United but had to wait until his ninth appearance before finally opening his account with a beautiful guided effort from the edge of the box in Saturday’s 4-2 win against Brighton.<\/p>\n “Yeah, finally,” the beaming Brazil<\/a> international told Premier League Productions. “Wow. I worked so hard for this … I’m so happy.<\/p>\n “But of course I want a little bit more contribution and then today’s coming, [but] we win and then everything’s fine.”<\/p>\n When asked if not finding the net had played on his mind, he said: “Of course … when you play up front, [you have] to score goals.<\/p>\n “I have [to have] more contributions. But the last time I said this, if my participation is to help the team and then we start doing [well], I’ll be happy also.<\/p>\n “But of course with this goal, everyone will be around me to push me.<\/p>\n “The guys started to joke and then said, ‘wow, you can score!’. These things happen and everyone pushes me and I feel so happy to be here.”<\/p>\n Cunha opened the scoring at home to Brighton, with compatriot Casemiro<\/a> scoring a deflected effort before fellow summer signing Bryan Mbeumo<\/a> slammed home.<\/p>\n Danny Welbeck’s free-kick and a late Charalampos Kostoulas header made for a nervy ending at Old Trafford, where Mbeumo’s second of the day sealed a third straight win for Ruben Amorim’s side.<\/p>\n “Everyone has full confidence in Amorim,” Cunha said. “He is someone that pushes us forward.<\/p>\n “He is always very stressed until we start to win, and then he improves every day. Of course, he deserves this, Man United deserve this.<\/p>\n “This needs to be the normal for this club. I am so happy to be a part of this. Amazing day, I will remember this.”<\/p>\n United continue their Premier League campaign with a trip to Sean Dyche’s Nottingham Forest<\/a> next weekend, when Brighton will host Leeds having travelled to Arsenal<\/a> in the Carabao Cup<\/a> on Wednesday.<\/p>\n – Transfer rumours, news: Barcelona eye Greenwood-Rashford reunion<\/a> Seagulls boss Fabian Hurzeler said: “United pressed man to man so you have to do the small executions well and we weren’t at our highest level.<\/p>\n “In the end it is about execution and our execution wasn’t right, so we have to start in training taking every pass and every touch seriously. We have to improve.<\/p>\n “The character was good, the personality and the belief was there. We never gave up but the main thing is we made easy mistakes.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Oct 26, 2025, 09:49 AM ET Matheus Cunha was overjoyed to finally get off the mark for Manchester…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":252934,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[403,99],"class_list":["post-252933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252933","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=252933"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252933\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/252934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Matheus Cunha opened his Man United account in Saturday’s 4-2 win over Brighton.\u00a0Simon Stacpoole\/Offside\/Offside via Getty Images<\/p>\n
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