Good day all sports lovers, today I welcome you to another North London derby weekend wrap at Old Trafford were Manchester United welcomes Burnley to another fight for survival on the premier league table. And we will also take a look at the Match between Chelsea and Manchester City at Stanford Bridge on Saturday 17th of April, 2021, so please feel free to share your thoughts on this interesting topics for match day live week 42.
Also on the list we will look at the unbelievable game between Arsenal and Fulham at the Flying Emirates Stadium. Please don’t forget to share your thoughts on this exciting Matches in the English Premier League and FA cup this season.
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Now let’s take our minds back to the North London derby were the red devils had a hard time trying to get 3 point on the premier league table and 6 points clear from their rivalry Leister city.
The match kicked off at 4pm were the message was once again made known to people that there is NO ROOM FOR RAICISM ANYWHERE. Just 18 seconds after kickoff that the Burnley striker Woods found the back of the net for Burnley due to lack of communication from the goal keeper to his defenders, but at the end was ruled offside. On the other hand, chances were created for Man Utd in the dangerous areas but they were so unlucky to find the back of the net especially in the first halve of the game. At halve time at old Trafford the game remained 0-0 with 4 attempts with 2 on target for Man Utd.
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The second halve began with a fantastic team work thanks to Marcus Rashford who started the game with a brilliant run into the dangerous area and passing the ball to Bruno Fernandes who let the ball run through for Mason Greenwood, who didn’t hesitate to find the back of the net in the 46 minutes, which didn’t take long for Burnley to take a corner which James Taikorski in the penalty area, who made no mistake of letting go of the ball but rather gave it all it takes to find the back of the net making the game to be 1 points for each team.
Man utd was under pressure from several counter attacks from Burnley but united back 4 put the game going with clearance from Wanbissaka. In the 85th minutes Man utd mounted pressure in the penalty area where Mason Greenwood pulled the trigger and there was a deflection that took the ball away from the goalkeeper into the back of the net with assist from Paul Pogba.
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Once again the main man in the utd team Bruno Fernandes was so unlucky in the dangerous area when he tried to take a shot on target to give Man utd a deserve victory but the ball was deflected wide and in for a corner kick. At the 90th minute, the fourth official added 3 minutes to the game were it was an opportunity to mount pressure again in the counter attack starting with Bruno Fernandes to Edison Cavani and he gave the ball to Mason Greenwood who squeezed it in for Donny Van De Beek and he had no choice than to give back to the Uruguay striker, Cavani to finish the brilliant team work and so he did and Man utd once again go 26 unbeaten in the English Premier League.
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Moving over to Stanford Bridge were Chelsea gave in all it takes to qualify for the semifinals in the FA cup title race. And for Arsenal vs Fulham it was a though one at the Flying Emirates stadium, were Arsenal had a tough time in getting at least 1 points for themselves until the 90+6 minutes were Nketiah had a wonder and didn’t make any mistake than to score the goal for his team to get 1 point in the premier league table.
To wrap it up today on the Monday night football we will be seeing the game between Liverpool and Leeds United in the English Premier League.
That is it on match review see you next week, Good bye.