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Brentford 1-1 Manchester United highlights and reaction as Mount and Ajer score in added time
All the reaction after a poor Man Utd performance despite Mason Mount’s stoppage time goal
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BY SAMUEL LUCKHURST, DOMINIC BOOTH, STEVEN RAILSTON
UPDATED23:01, 30 MAR 2024
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BRENTFORD, ENGLAND – MARCH 30: Kobbie Mainoo of Manchester United in action with Ivan Toney of Brentford during the Premier League match between Brentford FC and Manchester United at Brentford Community Stadium on March 30, 2024 in Brentford, England. (Photo by Matthew Peters/Manchester United via Getty Images)
Manchester United had to settle for a 1-1 draw with Brentford in the Premier League this evening, after a poor showing at the Gtech Community Stadium.
After a thrilling 4-3 win over Liverpool in the FA Cup in their previous match before the international break, United hoped to take that good form into this game, yet their Champions League qualification hopes took another hit with two dropped points.
United conceded a whole heap of chances, with Brentford very wasteful in front of goal. The visitors thought they had nicked a 1-0 win when Mason Mount, scoring his first ever goal for the club, netted in stoppage time after coming on as a substitute. But United’s joy didn’t last long as Kristoffer Ajer levelled almost straight away for the Bees.
It marked the end of a chastening evening for United, who were second best for long periods.
See all the reaction to the game on MEN Sport’s live blog below.
KEY EVENTS
FT: Brentford 1-1 Man United
22:02
GOAL! Brentford 1-1 Man United (Ajer)
GOAL! Brentford 0-1 Man United (Mount)
23:01DOMINIC BOOTH
That’s all
That’s all we’ve got time for on tonight’s live blog. Thanks for joining.
22:42DOMINIC BOOTH
What Ten Hag said
The United boss has also spoken to Sky Sports. He admitted his team didn’t play well but thought they ought to have come away with the win:
“If you are winning then you shouldn’t give it away. Normally we are a strong side in such situations, we have to bring it over the line and that is disappointing.
“We should have acted differently in the occasion when we conceded the equaliser. It was absolutely unnecessary.
“I have to make compliment to the team to hang in there and keep fighting. Even when we don’t play well we have to win the game and we almost did. That is what disappoints me the most.
“We should all stand up and all take responsibility for this. We will keep fighting. It could be a very good point in the end.”
(Image: 2024 Getty Images)
22:40DOMINIC BOOTH
Full time verdict
Here is your full time verdict from Samuel Luckhurst at the Gtech. It’s worth a read as we all seek to make sense of the madness that unfolded in this latest United outing.
22:33DOMINIC BOOTH
Mason Mount’s reaction
“When you go 1-0 up right at the end you want to try and hang onto that.
“If you look at the game overall it wasn’t to our standard. We know that. When you score at the death you think you can maybe hang on. But maybe we didn’t deserve it.
“Brentford make it difficult. It is never easy coming here. They make it tough and get around you. Maybe we didn’t get it going from the beginning.
“We know we can improve and we need to because we need to win games. We will improve, we will work hard.
“These are the games you want to win. We need to step up and that is what we will focus on.”
22:21DOMINIC BOOTH
United gesture to fans
Credit to the United fans who travelled to London for this one (and had a tough match to watch). The club have given away shirts as a gesture of goodwill.
22:18DOMINIC BOOTH
Toney’s reaction
The Brentford striker is speaking to Sky Sports right now:
“I feel like it’s points dropped. We just looked at the stats, we don’t know how we didn’t score more than one goal. We hit the woodwork, we created lots of chances.”
22:13DOMINIC BOOTH
Onana stands tall
If anyone (apart from Mount) in United colours comes away with any credit from tonight’s encounter, it will be Andre Onana. He made a number of key saves.
22:09DOMINIC BOOTH
Player ratings
The United player ratings are in from Samuel Luckhurst after a chaotic evening. Mason Mount comes off better than most.
You can read them in full here
Mason Mount’s late goal was cancelled out for Man United vs Brentford(Image: Justin Setterfield)
22:02KEY EVENT
FT: Brentford 1-1 Man United
The game just went on, and on, and on. And rarely did United look like winning it, apart from a golden minute or two between the Mount and Ajer strikes. In the end, the 1-1 draw flatters United far more than it does Brentford. A 1-0 win would have represented larceny.
The whistle for full-time finally goes with the clock showing almost 104 minutes. A mad game.
90 MINS + 12, 1-1DOMINIC BOOTH
Handbags
United send in a couple of late set pieces, but Martinez is penalised after a grapple in the Brentford box, with McTominay and Maupay then coming to blows. It’s all happening.
90 MINS + 10, 1-1DOMINIC BOOTH
United poor at the back
You can’t say the home side didn’t deserve that. We’re now into the 100th minute of this game. It may go on even longer. United haven’t defended well at all tonight and that Ajer goal was just another example.
KEY EVENT
GOAL! Brentford 1-1 Man United (Ajer)
Well that didn’t last long. It’s 1-1! Ajer fires home the levller!
90 MINS + 7, 0-1DOMINIC BOOTH
Mount’s first goal
You would never believe it. Mason Mount has popped up with a vital first goal for United, a fine left-footed finish at the near post to cue bedlam among the away fans.
SMASH. AND. GRAB.
KEY EVENT
GOAL! Brentford 0-1 Man United (Mount)
Incredible! Mason Mount might just have won it for Manchester United!
95 MINS, 0-0DOMINIC BOOTH
It’s not happening
Fernandes plays a teasing cross into the box but United get themselves in a muddle on the edge of the area and can’t work a chance. McTominay then fouls to let Brentford off the hook – and give them another set piece.
90 MINS + 4, 0-0DOMINIC BOOTH
Late effort?
Smash and grab time? United actually have the ball in Brentford’s half for a change and will look to create something. They still have a fair bit of attacking talent on the pitch.
90 MINS + 2, 0-0DOMINIC BOOTH
Head bandage for Dalot
It might be even more than nine minutes, given the length of that delay after the clash between Dalot and Maupay. The United full back has had his head strapped up.
Rasmus Hojlund of Manchester United reacts during the Premier League match against Brentford
DOMINIC BOOTH
Added time
NINE added minutes.
90 MINS, 0-0DOMINIC BOOTH
Clash
There is some respite again for United as Dalot buys a foul off Maupay inside his own box, with box players clutching their faces after that skirmish. There should be a hefty amount of added time, you’d think, which doesn’t really benefit United given they don’t look like scoring.
At this point, 0-0 would be a result.
88 MINS, 0-0DOMINIC BOOTH
Onslaught
28 shots and counting…
87 MINS, 0-0DOMINIC BOOTH
Maupay on
Toney’s free-kick is wide. How many shots has he had tonight?
Neal Maupay is coming on for the home side, as they push for the late winner that their play has (more than) deserved. Any late United win would be a complete robbery.
85 MINS, 0-0DOMINIC BOOTH
Free-kick on the edge
Toney thinks he’s through once more but Maguire does well to hold him up and United get bodies back. Casemiro then fells Mbeumo right on the edge of the box. More nerves coming up here…
83 MINS, 0-0DOMINIC BOOTH
United walking a tightrope
It’s hard to keep track of all these Brentford crosses and shots, and of all the times United have had to hack it clear or that Onana has saved or parried away.
Suffice to say, it’s happened a lot and it’s still happening.
81 MINS, 0-0DOMINIC BOOTH
Fernandes shot
Fernandes gets a run on the defence and fires a pretty tame left footed shot at goal, which isn’t troubling anyone. Mount’s first act of the game is to be penalised for a foul on Ajer.
80 MINS, 0-0DOMINIC BOOTH
Double sub for United
Mason Mount and Casemiro replace Mainoo and Rashford.
79 MINS, 0-0DOMINIC BOOTH
Crossbar again
Mbeumo has hit the crossbar this time! Once again the woodwork saves United. Toney and Mbeumo almost got in each other’s way as they tried to latch onto a Route One ball from Flekken. United still didn’t deal with it and allowed the shot.
(Image: 2024 Getty Images)
78 MINS, 0-0DOMINIC BOOTH
Lewis-Potter chances
A game of head tennis ensues in the United box, with Maguire again getting very tight to Toney. It ends with Lewis-Potter firing a shot at goal (how many has he had tonight?) with Onana holding onto it.
76 MINS, 0-0DOMINIC BOOTH
Can United salvage something?
Into the final 15 minutes and can United conjure up anything at all? This is looking like being a very dispiriting evening, even if United somehow managed to keep Brentford at bay. The Bees will be furious not to win.
74 MINS, 0-0DOMINIC BOOTH
United lucky
VAR confirms that. No goal.
73 MINS, 0-0DOMINIC BOOTH
Goal?
Toney thinks he’s scored for Brentford but the flag goes up.
Replays show the assistant referee has got it JUST right. Fine margins!
72 MINS, 0-0DOMINIC BOOTH
Antony goes close
Damsgaard is also on for the hosts, as Rashford runs into another blind alley down the United left. Antony then curls one and it’s not far away at all. That was classic Antony, cutting onto his left and trying to find the far corner.
70 MINS, 0-0DOMINIC BOOTH
Mbeumo on
More last-ditch stuff from United, more Brentford pressure, largely in the form of corners. Wan-Bissaka turns this one away and then the corner comes in from the left and ends with an attempted overhead kick from Lewis-Potter. It’s over the bar.
Bryan Mbeumo is about to make his entrance. Wissa is the man replaced.
68 MINS, 0-0DOMINIC BOOTH
Martinez coming on
Here comes the next change, and it’s a defensive one, with Lisandro Martinez set to replace Lindelof. It looks like the Swede is injured, he’s been down clutching his hamstring. All the while United will shortly have a corner to defend. Because they’ve spent all game defending corners.
67 MINS, 0-0DOMINIC BOOTH
McTominay wide
McTominay takes a potshot on the run, but he’s off balance and it goes well wide. How long before Ten Hag makes another change? A penny for Mason Mount’s thoughts…
66 MINS, 0-0DOMINIC BOOTH
Toney volley
Another minute, another Toney chance. This one is nearly a fine left-footed volley, but just goes over the crossbar. It seems like United are just waiting to concede.
65 MINS, 0-0DOMINIC BOOTH
Fernandes frustration
Fernandes is waving his arms around, either in complaint at his United teammates or trying to motivate them. It’s sometimes hard to discern which.
Brentford are on the front foot again, with Lewis Potter giving United the run-around. United have barely laid a glove on some of these Bees forwards.
63 MINS, 0-0DOMINIC BOOTH
Brentford shots
*Gulps*
62 MINS, 0-0DOMINIC BOOTH
Terrific Toney
Toney lays it off and then spins in behind. He’s had the beating of United’s defence all evening. That move ends with Lewis-Potter heading over from the back post.
Kobbie Mainoo of Manchester United in action with Yoane Wissa of Brentford
59 MINS, 0-0DOMINIC BOOTH
Another close one for Wissa
Garnacho is the man replaced. The Argentinian has been some way off his best this evening. It’s a straight swap on the right.
Wissa whizzes another shot just wide of target. That came from a punt up into the air into United’s box, which they didn’t deal with. And it might have clipped the woodwork.
58 MINS, 0-0DOMINIC BOOTH
Antony coming on
Brentford are sitll piling the pressure onto United as Lewis-Potter’s cross goes through a crowd and just beyond Onana’s far post. The Cameroon goalkeeper’s net has lived a charmed existence so far.
Antony is getting ready to come on.
56 MINS, 0-0DOMINIC BOOTH
Onana saves twice
That Hojlund chance came via a cute pass in between the Brentford defenders by Fernandes and Ten Hag holds his head in his hands, because the Dane should really have scored with his favoured left foot. A big moment.
Onana then makes a double save to keep it 0-0. It’s all happening.
Manchester United’s goalkeeper Andre Onana cuts out a cross during the Premier League match between Brentford and Manchester United
54 MINS, 0-0DOMINIC BOOTH
Chances at both ends
Maguire shows composure at the back to glide away from the press and play it long to try and set up Dalot. But Brentford then win it back, break away at pace with Wissa opting to shoot rather than find Toney. Wissa drags it across Onana’s goal…
And then Hojlund at the other end is denied by Flekken at point-blank range. That was a massive chance!
52 MINS, 0-0DOMINIC BOOTH
Dalot chance
United go close, this time through Dalot. The home side fail to clear and Rashford ‘s cross is headed out towards the end of the box and it’s worked nicely to Dalot, who arrows a shot just beyond the post.
Rashford is getting involved a fair bit at the moment.
51 MINS, 0-0DOMINIC BOOTH
Fernandes shot
United string a few passes together down the left, with decent play between Wan-Bissaka and Rashford, before Fernandes tries to test Flekken from distance. It’s pretty much straight at the keeper, though.
49 MINS, 0-0DOMINIC BOOTH
Defensive struggles
No penalty and rightly so, there was barely any contact.
United still look a mess defensively, though, with Maguire struggling to contain Toney.
48 MINS, 0-0DOMINIC BOOTH
VAR check
Maguire is straight into the action, heading to safety after another Brentford long throw. The balls just keep raining into the United box, though, with another corner coming in, with Brentford appealing for a penalty for a possible foul by Garnacho.
Janelt is still down, as VAR has a look. Doesn’t look like a major one, really.
47 MINS, 0-0DOMINIC BOOTH
Why Maguire has come on
Some fans may question why Ten Hag hasn’t brought Martinez on for Varane rather than Maguire, but the Englishman did play for the Three Lions in the international break and Ten Hag said Martinez and Casemiro both needed more “rhythm” before they can play more minutes.
Maguire has a huge job on his hands in the next 45 minutes here.
DOMINIC BOOTH
Second half
Back under way.
21:02DOMINIC BOOTH
Sub for United
United look set to make a half-time change, with Harry Maguire replacing Raphael Varane. All indications are that the Frenchman is injured.
21:01DOMINIC BOOTH
Redknapp slams Rashford
Jamie Redknapp, speaking on Sky Sports at half-time, has been hugely critical of United and in particular Marcus Rashford after that first half display.
“United fans would have really been looking forward to tonight after the brilliant result against Liverpool. You thought it might turn their season around. They have been so bad tonight. I cannot believe the lack of effort, spark, desire to win individual battles, to make things happen in that team.
“I’m watching Marcus Rashford walking around like it’s a bit of fun out there. It’s the Premier League! I’ve been amazed by how poor Man United have been.”
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