Man Utd v Atleti | Highlights

The Strawberry Arena in Solna is the venue for Manchester United against Atletico Madrid. Arnau Ortiz lifts it in, it's a brilliant flick tenner and Atletico Madrid hit the front. A cross of real quality from Arnau Ortiz. Flicked home to give the visitors a 1-0 advantage. Yeah, it's a decent ball into the box. Not too sure whether there was a touch. If you look at Tom Heaton, I think he might have been expecting some sort of contact from the header. I don't know if there was and as we very often see when crosses come in like that and they're whipped in at the far post, nobody gets a touch and the ball just goes in on its own. I'm not so sure. It's still a little bit inconclusive for me but one thing that isn't is that, I don't think he touched it, no contact is there, is that it is a really good ball into the box by Arnau Ortiz. Excellent ball and the header which never was catching everybody out. Manchester United are behind. Here's Brian Mbembe, back it comes to Mason Mount, now out to Ahmad. Takes his time, Mason Mount's going to swing the cross towards the back post and a late shot! What an effort from the Manchester United, a left back and a brilliant save from Jan Oblak. That was a lovely build-up and he spotted there was an overload at the back post Mason Mount and I'm imagining that Luke Shaw gave Patrick Dogu a shout. Connected beautifully, knew very little about it Oblak but strong enough hands to push it over the bar. Self-preservation I think from Jan Oblak, getting his hands up to protect his face because it was arrowing towards him. Andres Santos, good feet from Mason Mount, finds Brian Mbembe, gets brought down on the edge of the penalty area and the referee immediately blows for the free kick, but it's good football to put Mbembe in that position. Yes, a lovely ball through the lines from Andres Santos, purposeful, not got a lot of margin for error there, it's a great touch from both Mbembe and Mason Mount and a certain foul on the edge of the box. Walks away, left foot of Ahmad or the right foot of Mason Mount. Ahmad deflected and somehow kept out by Jan Oblak. He decided to go low, there was a little deflection that nearly had him shifting the other way, Jan Oblak, but not enough to carry it over the line. Brilliant from Ahmad. Back to Joro, first time to Shea Lacey. Lacey digs on the cross and Brian Mbembe's header is just wide. Wonderful footwork from Shea Lacey to twist around and get the delivery in and Mbembe on the run, met it but couldn't get it on target. Superb and it all starts with Ahmad and his ability to close down and not just close down but win his team possession and then Shea Lacey, it's a fabulous ball, a little touch, gets himself in front and he's so unlucky Brian Mbembe, but again another really really good move from United. Lenny Joro finds Ahmad, Ahmad back to Lenny Joro, Lenny Joro to the byline, stands up across towards the back post, left alone to Luke Shaw, Luke Shaw fires in the left footed effort, big deflection and behind it goes, again Manchester United knocking on the door of the Atletico Madrid goal. And that communication must have been there between Dorgu and Luke Shaw. Gets a big shout doesn't he? Yeah, handball. Yeah, VAR's taking a look at that one as well, fouled about four times there but none of them have been given by the referee. Well one back, Patrick Dorgu looking for a bit of space, Dorgu finds Shaw. Another example there Liam of Andre Santos and the way he reads the game, he stepped in there straight away, they have been really impressed with him. Hard not to be isn't it? Yeah, we've seen and as Zara pointed out in the pre-show, still so young, only turned 22 in May. Here he is, Andre Santos, that's that pass out to the right hand side, Lenny Joro, Andre Santos into Aiden Heaven, Heaven thinks about it for a second, it opens up for him, Shea Lacy with a lovely bit of dancing feet, wins the penalty for Manchester United. Lovely skill on the edge of the box from the youngster and the referee with no option but to give the spot kick from 12 yards. Really clever, Shea Lacy, referee right on top of it, he gets himself into the box which then defenders have to be a bit more careful about, there you go into the box and the trailing leg is clumsy from Castillo. It's one of your forwards back in defending, so the first thing that Xavi Esquivel has got to do is face the spot kick from Brian and Bermot. Bermot would very much like to get his pre-season up and running here with the left-footed effort, up he steps, nine strokes at home and Brian and Bermot gives Manchester United the equalising goal, a cool, calm and collective penalty. Yeah, very confident, sends Esquivel completely the wrong way and when you do that you don't need to thrash home a penalty if you're that confident that you can send a goalkeeper the wrong way with your eyes and that's exactly what he did, very calm and just strokes it into the bottom right hand corner, left hand as we look at it. He gives him the eyes and everything doesn't he, he's looking into the opposite corner. If you can do that you don't need to go for power it's just for a flag there weren't they. Get one, instead Luque wants to get Atleti moving, Lamar, clever ball into the penalty area, shot comes in, big save Tom Heaton, down low to his left-hand side, cat-like reflexes and then jumps on top of the ball. Yeah, that's their best move of the game purely and simply because of this pass from Thomas Lamar, really well weighted inside Lenny Uro and that's a brilliant one-handed save again from Tom Heaton. Xherxey, there's a herring after that. Manchester United, Fletcher pulled back to him, Manchester United lead, brilliant work down the right-hand side and the finish just needed to be turned on. Home, 2-1 to the Reds and Ben nothing less than they deserve. No, completely agree and Jack Fletcher pounced down that right-hand side, took an extra touch and played the ball quite correctly into the centre. Xherxey chasing down here and as we saw so many times in the first half United's press caused them a great deal of issues and even though Esquivel got there first and Vermo was there and he just played it against him and he ended up in the roof of the net, good play from Jack Fletcher, just buys himself that little bit of room with that second touch and there's Brian and Vermo, doesn't get the first one but gets this all-important second and yes in the grand scheme of things United definitely deserve to be to be leading this game. Martin Culman with the effort, still not away, header comes in, Tom Heaton had that covered all the way past the post. He probably feels, Culman, that he had enough of the goal to be able to see that. Heaton was well beaten, unfortunately. They've hit both posts there, haven't they?