On February 16, Beijing time, the 18th round of the Premier League ushered in a make-up match, Manchester United defeated Brighton 2-0 at home, stopping the avalanche of the last 3 winless games, C Ronaldo finally broke the 2022 goal drought, into 2022, C Ronaldo 6 games before this game 0 goals, is a rare goal drought in the past decade or so. In this campaign, Cristiano Ronaldo knocked out the 2022 goal account with the world wave, and B Fee also scored 1 goal, and the two Portuguese players won 2-0 for Manchester United.
Manchester United manager Ronnick continued to let Ronaldo play as a single arrow, and Bruno Fernandez, Sancho and Erlanga formed a three-forward, such an offensive configuration allowed United to crush Brighton. However, Brighton performed tenaciously in the first half, withstood manchester United's wave after wave of attacks, and created some trouble for Manchester United on the offensive end, but manchester United's goalkeeper De Gea showed courage, god saved the danger, and tried to ensure that Manchester United did not concede the ball 0-0 in the first half.
In the second half, United continued to step up their attack and quickly scored goals. In the 51st minute of the game, Scott McTominay completed the steal in the front, and then C Ronaldo directly counter-attacked with the ball, facing the unstable Brighton defense, C Ronaldo chose to shoot from the top of the arc of the penalty area, directly blasting out of the world wave, the ball quickly entered the net, the goalkeeper was too late to make a save, and Manchester United led 1-0.
In the 54th minute of the game, Brighton made matters worse, the defense collapsed instantly, Dunk was robbed by a mistake in his own half, and then directly fouled the snatcher Elanga, the referee watched the replay and showed Dunk a red card, Brighton played one less person.
In the stoppage time after the 90th minute of the game, Manchester United sealed the victory, Pogba served a set-piece at the back, B Fei ran wildly with the ball in the half, and directly faced the defender who grabbed the goal to complete the small angle shovel, and Manchester United won 2-0.
City had 50% possession and 20 shots on goal, including 7 on target, and Brighton had 3 of 10 shots on goal, making it 2-0 for the two teams to win. United won six straight against Brighton and recently won six consecutive games against Brighton, and the table shows that United are now in fourth place with 43 points, surpassing West Ham United with 41 points and leaving only four points behind third-place Chelsea.
After the game, Manchester United officially announced that C Ronaldo once again won the MVP of the game, and C Ronaldo also refreshed 3 historical data, first, on behalf of Manchester United scored 93 goals in the Premier League, surpassing Viduka and Kevin Phillips, jumping to the 37th place in the history of the Premier League; second, C Ronaldo scored on behalf of Manchester United at the age of 37, becoming the third person in the history of the team, the previous two were Giggs and Scholes; third, C Ronaldo scored 93 Premier League goals to become the 5th place in Manchester United's historical top scorer list, equalizing Andy Cole.
Recently, the most stable form in the Manchester United team is goalkeeper De Gea, who has completed consecutive performances, made up for the Premier League's best of January, and completed 128 Premier League clean sheets after this round, equalizing Schmeichel. The state of attack and defence has picked up, and Manchester United will next do their best to protect the top four of the Premier League.