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The good news for United, is that the draw between West Ham and Tottenham means they stay in 15th. A Spurs victory would have seen them move above them.
“Did autofill substitute ‘supposed’ for ‘surprise’, or is this some British irony I don’t get as a dumb Midwesterner?” writes Joe Pearson.
It was a weird game that never seemed like being particularly thrilling. Large parts were pedestrian. But who can complain about seven goals?
Full time: Brighton 1-1 Newcastle
Note a bad point overall for Newcastle but with Champions League football on the line, the two dropped could prove key.
Full time! Brentford 4-3 Manchester United
The Bees with a supposed seven-goal thriller.
Brentford 4-3 Manchester United: Bayindir produces a fine save to stop Wissa from sealing the win.
Full time! West Ham 1-1 Tottenham
The points are shared.
Brighton 1-1 Newcastle: WHAT A SAVE! Wilson ping a shot from eight yards and Verbruggen tips it over.
GOAL! Brentford 4-3 Manchester United (Diallo 90+4)
GAME ON?
Brighton 1-1 Newcastle: Gomez comes on and misses a chance to win it. His header from six yards goes well wide.
Brighton 1-1 Newcastle: Veltman cleans out Gordon on the left wing to give Newcastle a free-kick in a dangerous position. It comes to nothing.
Brentford 4-2 Manchester United: SEVEN ADDED ON! (THIS MATTERS LESS)
Brighton 1-1 Newcastle: NINE MINUTES ADDED ON!
GOAL! Brighton 1-1 Newcastle (Isak, pen, 89)
Isak steps up … and sends the keeper the wrong way. Then fights Verbruggen to get the ball back.
Brighton 1-0 Newcastle: A long look … AND A PENALTY IS GIVEN! Third time lucky for Newcastle.
Brighton 1-0 Newcastle: VAR is having a look …
Brighton 1-0 Newcastle: PENALTY? The visitors have a free-kick in a very dangerous position on the edge of the box … Schar lines it up, it breaks through the wall off Ayari’s arm. It is a clear handball.
West Ham 1-1 Tottenham: Ward-Prowse sends in a free-kick which Bowen heads towards goal, it looks to be going in but Vicario produces a fine save.
GOAL! Brentford 4-2 Manchester United (Garnacho 81)
The Argentinian produces a stunner into the top corner. He comes in off the left, plays a one-two with Eriksen and whips it into the top corner. Ooooof … a nice consolation.
Brentford 4-1 Manchester United: Nunes, Thiago and Ajer are on for the Bees.
Brighton 1-0 Newcastle: O’Reilly is penalised for a foul on Tonali in the Newcastle box.
West Ham 1-1 Tottenham: Paqueta is booked for trip the young lad Moore.
Andy Flintoff emails: “I noticed by looking at the (current in-play) table that the number of goals scored per team is approximately equal to the number of points (e.g. Liverpool have scored 80 and have 82 points, Arsenal 64 GF 67 pts and so on.) with one noticeable outlier – Spurs have scored 63, but only have 38 points. (Yes, I am bored this Sunday, before you ask!)“
Brighton 1-0 Newcastle: “I loathe VAR, but at least it’s doing its job today,” says Paul (a bitter Boro fan). “Two dodgy penalties to Newcastle? Sounds about right. I’ve long thought St. James Park is the Bermuda Triangle of football. A place where normal laws of football apply only to the away team.”
GOAL! Brentford 4-1 Manchester United (Wissa 74)
Jensen slips a pass through to Kayode who crosses for Wissa to tap home from close range. There is a check for offside … and it is eventually given.
Brighton 1-0 Newcastle: Pope is pretending to be injured so Howe can offer some serious tactical advise to the team.
Brighton 1-0 Newcastle: Wilson is being prepared for Newcastle.
Brighton 1-0 Newcastle: NO PENALTY! Willock is booked for a dive. Fair play to Pawson for admitting a second error. A decent effort by Willock but not good enough.
Brighton 1-0 Newcastle: Pawson goes to the monitor to realise he is wrong again.
GOAL! Brentford 3-1 Manchester United (Schade 70)
Mbeumo crosses and Schade does the rest. This game is done and dusted.
Brighton 1-0 Newcastle: PENALTY? Willock goes down under a challenge from Van Hecke in the box. Pawson takes long look and then awards a penalty but it looks a dive to me …
Brighton 1-0 Newcastle: Ayari and Veltman on for Brighton, Hinshelwood and Adringa off.
Brighton 1-0 Newcastle: Barnes beats the defender, gets to the byline and pulls the ball back to Isak who does what he can, sending a backheel towards goal but Verbruggen deals with it.
West Ham 1-1 Tottenham: All quite end of season on the other side of London, where Spurs win their first corner of the matchin the 61st minute.
Brentford 2-1 Manchester United: Jensen is preparing to come on for the Bees.
Brentford 2-1 Manchester United: It is all quite slow in west London. Are both teams very tired?
Brighton 1-0 Newcastle: Barnes is on the right now and cuts in to fire a shot with his left but it’s straight at the keeper.
Brentford 2-1 Manchester United: “United have their most important game of the season so far next season and Amorim has made that clear by his team selection today,” says Rick Harris. “It makes perfect sense to me to give Luke Shaw 45 minutes and likewise Patrick Dorgu, while giving Amad Diallo minutes on his return after injury. Mason Mount will be feeling a whole lot better at scoring United’s opener so the only black spot for United is De Ligt getting injured again. The result today only matters to Brentford who have outside an chance of making the Europa Conference League.”
Brighton 1-0 Newcastle: OVERTURNED! Free-kick to Newcastle.
Brighton 1-0 Newcastle: VAR is having a look … sure this will become a free-kick.
Brighton 1-0 Newcastle: PENALTY? Lamptey kicks Gordon just outside the box but a penalty is given. Will it be overturned?
Brentford 2-1 Manchester United: Former Bees man Eriksen is brought on for Mount.
Brighton 1-0 Newcastle: That is the final action for Murphy, who is replaced by Gordon.
Brighton 1-0 Newcastle: Murphy takes aim from 20 yards but his shot is very wayward.
Brighton 1-0 Newcastle: Wieffer is replaced by Lamptey. No point in taking the risk with him as Brighton do not want to go down to 10.
Brentford 2-1 Manchester United: Garnacho is booked for moaning about being penalised for a soft foul.
Brighton 1-0 Newcastle: Wieffer slides in on Tonali. He is on a booking but Pawson does not think it is worthy of a second.
Brentford 2-1 Manchester United: A couple of quick chances for Mount, the second is easily saved by Flekken.
