Manchester United’s defeat to Everton at Old Trafford on Monday night represented a primary for the club within the history of the Premier League.
After a five-game undefeated run, the Red Devils were fancied to proceed their decent recent form against the Toffees.
Nonetheless, a powerful strike from Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall on 29 minutes was the one goal of the sport and Everton travelled back to Merseyside with a 1-0 victory.
The result was all of the more unlikely after Toffees midfielder Idrissa Gueye was shown a straight red card after just 13 mintues.
Gueye got into an argument with teammate Michael Keane and because the altercation became physical he aimed a slap on the defender’s face, earning himself a red card.
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It was a moment of madness and handed the Red Devils a major advantage, but they may not profit from it, the truth is they couldn’t make anything of it.
Never before in Premier League history have Manchester United lost a game at Old Trafford when the opposition has received a red card.
Opta state that United’s opponents at Old Trafford have picked up a red card on 46 occasions within the Premier League and the house side has won 36 times with 10 draws.
A frustrated Amorim told the BBC after the defeat: ‘They were the higher team with 11 players and 10. I felt we weren’t there with the identical intensity. They deserved the win.
‘The opposite team helped us with the sending off. We’d like to do [more] in every moment. In the event that they have 10 let’s push them to the ultimate third. We’d like to do more.’
He added: ‘Forget the result. The result is actually bad but I used to be more concerned by the sensation I had throughout the game. Everyone should play higher today.’
Manchester United did dominate the sport after going behind, producing 25 shots to Everton’s three and Jordan Pickford was in sensational form in goal for the Toffees.
Manager David Moyes was thrilled with the applying of his players, telling Sky Sports: ‘I’m incredibly happy with the players and the supporters here today because I comprehend it has been an everyday occurrence where we’ve not got a result here.
‘We now have come close a great deal of times and never quite been capable of recover from the road, but tonight we incredibly got over it with 10 men. I feel it was probably the toughest technique to get an excellent result here.
‘At full-time, I felt for all of the supporters who had made the journey because we obviously had to only sit in and defend for big parts of the sport. I assumed we began the sport brilliantly well, looked quite comfortable, however the sending off meant the sport modified. The resilience and toughness behind the scenes at Everton is actually good and the players showed that tonight.
‘It was never going to be a straightforward game for us with 11 players, but to do it with 10 players was an incredible job by the players. It was all about good goalkeeping and defensive resilience. It is vitally hard to fault my players for the way they played.’
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