Football is really a of passion and most of the time quite unpredictable. Such was the fate of the most decorated club in English football some hours ago when striker Jimenez was behind the woes that visited their visitors in a match that ended with a big uproar from the home side stand and marks a history for the club in a very long time.
It's was a bitter Saturday for Manchester united as they were dumped out of the most celebrated cup in England from the hand of Wolverhampton. Not many saw not coming this bad for Manchester United after suffering a premier league defeat for the first time under interim manager Solskjaer. This will be the first time that Manchester United has lost two away games consecutively since the exit of Jose Mourinho. Statistics also have that Manchester suffered their first defeat by Wolves for the first time in 50 years.
After his take over of the club last December, Solskjaer has shown a very bright future to bring something to United cabin by the end of the season following their victory over Chelsea in the FA cup after series of winning runs and finally their miraculous qualifications to the champions league quarter finals. All United fans had hope to see their lovely club play in the finals after being drawn against Wolves with only Manchester City the only tough team remaining in the tournament. Well, anything can happen in football the saying goes.
The game started pretty well for the away who tried to control the game in the early minute of the match but happened to lost touch of their play by continues losing the ball and possession. Wolves out classed United in all area of plat in what has being term the worst Manchester United performance under Solskjaer. Wolves were not too aggressive or slow either in a game their manager term as a game plan to keep United fast running Rashford in check.
Well, many may say the absence of de Gea at have contributed to their defeat but they is not gain saying that second choice keeper Sergio Romero was at his best throughout the game with a lot of wonderful saved unlike his counterpart who was barely called to action. throughout the get. Wolves at the 70th and 76th minute of the game were two goals up courtesy of striker Raul Jimenez who was name the man of the match and Diego Jota who scored six minutes after Raul's goal but Marcus Rashford 95th minute consolation goal was not enough to give United any hope of coming back into the game.
In a post match interview, United boss decried his boys lost for not being able to keep possession of the ball and were very slow with the ball but however expressed optimism that the boys will bounce back in their next game.With the international break coming up, it will be a good time for United manager to go back and study where he has started getting it wrong.
Win the lose, Solskjaer will now focus on taking his club to compete in the champions league against Barcelona and try to book a place in the top four on the log in the premier league . Wolverhampton of the other hand will be happy to see themselves in the semi final of the FA Cup since 1997.
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