Manchester United collapsed another defeat of Meek Home when Crystal Palace won 2-0 in Old Trafford on Sunday, while Tottenham facilitated the pressure on Ange Postecoglou by beating Brentford 2-0. Jean Philippe-Mateta was the hero of Palace with both goals in the second half, since United suffered a fifth defeat in his last six games of the local league. The victory takes the Eagles over the Red Devils on the table while the Oliver Glasner team rises to 12 Another homemade exhibition that lacks creativity and full of defensive lapses.
Amorim’s decision to start without a natural striker failed with Rasmus Hojlund and Joshua Zirkzee left at the bank.
The midfielder Kobbie Mainoo began in a central role after scoring in a 2-0 victory over the Romanian FCSB side in the middle of the week.
The worn strike of the International of England returned from the post in the best effort of United of a brilliant opening before his threat of attack failed.
Palace has lost only one of its last seven league games to recover from a miserable beginning of the season.
Visitors missed the creative spark offered by Eberrechi Eze during the first hour, since an injury meant that it was only sufficiently fit for a cameo appearance from the bank.
But Eze had an instant impact, since from his free kick Maxnce, the Lacroix header returned from the bar and to the path of Mateta to the fire home.
The worst thing was to continue for United, since Lisandro Martínez had to be stretched with what seemed like a serious knee injury.
Palace showed no mercy to secure the three points when Daniel Muñoz carried the local team defense and faced himself selflessly so that Mateta played her sixth goal in five games.
-The spurs facilitate the fears of descent. The spurs relieved the fears that they could be dragged into a battle of descent, since the side devastated by postecoglou injuries maintained a rare clean sheet to see Brentford.
The bees were left a series of lost opportunities against the improvised defense of Tottenham with Micky Van de Ven and Cristian Romero again absent.
Brentford also gave a hand to visitors with the aim of opening.
Hakon Valdimarsson ran over the corner of Son Heung-Min and Vitaly Janelt went to his own network in 29 minutes.
Yane Wissa’s heading left the bar when Brentford pushed for a tie.
But Spurs chose them in the counterattack when Pape Sarr pushed Valdimarsson’s legs of the Pass of Son.
The victory elevates Tottenham to 14th and 10 points in the descent zone.
The arsenal in second place begins the day nine points drift of the leaders of the Liverpool League before their box office success against the Manchester City defenders in the Emirates at the beginning of 1630 GMT.
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