Manchester United suffered their next setback at West Ham United, but should have been clearly leading at the break, but the conversion of their chances was poor. Diogo Dalot causes disbelief.
Manchester United is once again playing a season to forget and was only in 12th place with eleven points after eight matchdays – but at Kellerkind West Ham United, the Red Devils initially delivered a good performance on matchday 9 and should have been clearly leading at the break . In the end, however, United came away empty-handed and lost the game 2-1.
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Due to poor conversion of chances by Erik ten Hag’s team, the score in London was only 0-0 after 45 minutes, also because Diogo Dalot produced the miss of the season after just over half an hour. England legend Alan Shearer mocked Dalot’s finish: “Dalot’s miss is one of the worst in the Premier League era. We’ll still be talking about this in 20 years.”
32 minutes had been completed when Bruno Fernandes conjured up a dream pass into the path of the Portuguese, who initially did everything right and put the ball past the rushing keeper Lukasz Fabianski.
Miss of the season by Diogo Dalot
With the empty goal in front of him and no opposition pressure, the 25-year-old did everything wrong. Instead of simply pushing the ball into the box, Dalot volleyed the ball past the box to the right.
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The full-back then sank to the ground, threw his arms up and couldn’t understand what mistake he had made. He was by no means alone in his disbelief.
“This could be the miss of the season…” began Harry Bamforth from the Daily Mail his ticker entry for the scene in question and continued: “Diogo Dalot is played by Bruno Fernandes, goes around Lukasz Fabianski and has the empty goal in front of him.”
“A criminal miss”
Bamforth had already “started to predict the goal, but then he chased the ball past from just six meters away. I’m sitting here with my mouth open, I’m just stunned. This is a criminal miss.”
The Sun headlined: “DI-OH NO DALOT” The United star fabricated the “miss of the season”.
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After the break, United’s thread was suddenly completely broken, West Ham were the better team with the clearer chances. The cold shower for Manchester followed after 74 minutes when Crysencio Summerville scored from close range.
Seven minutes later, veteran Casemiro equalized with a header, before shortly before the end of regular time following a duel between Matthijs de Ligt and Danny Ings in the United penalty area, the VAR was activated and referee David Coote decided on a penalty, according to the images Jarrod Bowen didn’t miss it and converted it coldly (90.+2).
Chelsea FC did better than United and won 2-1 against Newcastle United thanks to a goal from Cole Palmer shortly after the break. Oliver Glasner’s Crystal Palace also managed a big point in the bottom of the table and defeated Tottenham Hotspur 1-0. Goal scorer in the first win of the season: former Mainz player Jean-Philippe Mateta.
