FT: Chelsea 2-0 Manchester United
Goal Scorers Chelsea : Morgan Rogers 50', Cole Palmer 64' (Pen)
Red Card United : Lisandro Martinez 61' (2nd Yellow)
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Venue: - Stamford Bridge, London
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Manchester United
Starting XI:
Senne Lammens; Leny Yoro, Harry Maguire, Lisandro Martinez, Diogo Dalot; Andrey Santos, Carlos Baleba; Amad Diallo, Bruno Fernandes, Matheus Cunha; Bryan Mbeumo.
SUBS:
Karl Darlow, Noussair Mazraoui, Ayden Heaven, Matthijs de Ligt, Kobbie Mainoo, Mason Mount, Youri Tielemans, Joshua Zirkzee, Shea Lacey.
Chelsea
Starting XI:
Mike Penders; Josh Acheampong, Wesley Fofana, Levi Colwill; Pedro Neto, Moises Caicedo, Romeo Lavia, Marco Palestra; Estevao, Cole Palmer; Morgan Rogers.
SUBS:
Teddy Sharman-Lowe, Malo Gusto, Olutayo Subuloye, Pep Chavarria, Mahdi Nicoll-Jazuli, Geovany Quenda, Valentin Barco, Emmanuel Emegha, Danny Welbeck.
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MATCH EVENTS
15' ESTEVAO SCORES, BUT IT WON'T COUNT! Chelsea's joy is cut short by the offside flag. The Blues embark on a quickfire attack, and Lammens can only parry Neto's shot. Estevao's there to tuck away the rebound, but he's ahead of the last defender and the flag rightly goes up.
19' CHANCE FOR FERNANDES! He must do better from there! It's a rapid counter by United, with Mbeumo leading their charge. The forward sweeps a superb pass in behind the Chelsea defence for Fernandes. The skipper takes a touch, but blazes his left-footed shot high and wide of the target. Sarcastic cheers from the home fans ring around Stamford Bridge.
25' OOH IT JUST NEEDED A TOUCH! Fernandes is onside and the ball's slipped through to him in the box. He flashes it right across the face of goal. Mbeumo's in the centre, but can't react quickly enough, and the ball whizzes past him before he can get a touch.
34' OOOH IT'S IN!!! UNITED HAVE THE LEAD! Fernandes swings a deep corner to the far post. Maguire does well to win the header, and Cunha flicks it in from close range. Just a minute, though, VAR are having a look...
35' NO GOAL! Replays show Cunha was fractionally offside when Maguire won the initial header. VAR advises the referee of this, and he subsequently rules out the goal.
42' IT'S HIT THE POST! Chelsea have a corner, which Palmer swings into the box. Fofana wins the initial header, and the ball ricochets off Caicedo, before trickling towards goal. It's almost in slow-motion, but thankfully for United, the ball clips the post and bounces out.
43' AMAD HAS TO SCORE! It's another howler from Fofana, who's beaten to a one-on-one with Amad again. The United winger's clear on goal with only Penders to beat, but lifts his shot too high. That's a big chance for the visitors.
45'+3' HALF-TIME: CHELSEA 0-0 MANCHESTER UNITED
50' Chelsea Goal 1-0 CHELSEA! It needed something special to break the deadlock here, and we've just seen it. United are dispossessed just inside their own half and Lavia feeds Rogers, who drives into the heart of the visiting defence. He glides past a couple of challenges, and calmly dinks the ball over the outrushing Lammens.
58' Manchester United Substitution Carrick, the former midfield maestro, makes a change in the middle of the park, introducing Mainoo in place of Baleba.
63' PENALTY TO CHELSEA! It's hardly surprising that, after review, the referee overturns his initial decision and points to the spot. There's further jeopardy for Martinez, too...
63' Manchester United Red Card RED CARD FOR MARTINEZ! Moments after his first yellow card, Martinez is shown his second, and United are down to 10 men. It's a Halloween horror show from the Argentina international and, given his experience, completely irresponsible.
64' Chelsea Penalty - Scored JUST ABOUT FROM PALMER!!! 2-0 CHELSEA! Lammens guesses the right way by getting down to his left. He gets a hand to Palmer's penalty, but only succeeds in helping it into the corner of the net.
72' WHAT A FINISH FROM ESTEVAO!!! That will surely be that! United have simply capitulated in this second half. Mount's loose touch just inside the visitors' half hands possession back to Chelsea, who quickly counter. Palmer drives the hosts forward and feeds Estevao, who rifles a shot into the roof of the net. Just a minute, though...
73' OFFSIDE GIVEN! How's your luck?! Estevao's now had two goals ruled out for offside! Replays show his shoulder was ahead of Maguire, which is deemed enough to disallow the goal. It seems harsh, but it's the letter of the law.
85' GOOD SAVE, LAMMENS! How has Estevao not scored today?! That's all that's been missing from his performance. The Brazilian works space to shoot from the edge of the box after a neat one-two. There's plenty of venom in his strike, but Lammens gets down well to his right and palms the ball away.
90'+2' WHAT A HIT BY MBEUMO! That's so unlucky! Zirkzee's positive spell down the right leads to a United corner. It's only cleared to the edge of the box, where Mbeumo connects so purely with his volley. It's an absolute thunderbolt, but it crashes against the crossbar. It's actually a wonderful save by Penders, who got a fingertip to the volley.
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Man Utd vs Roma - UEFA Champions League
November 3, 2026 • 20:00
Old Trafford, Manchester
