A goal in added time, on the last play of the match, from Dominic Calvert Lewin avoided Everton’s defeat at Old Trafford and Manchester United’s hunt for City in the Premier League lead (3-3).
The goal of the English forward relieved the team Carlo Ancelotti, again with Europe in sight, and frustrated the locals, who had in hand the triumph on the 63rd anniversary of the plane crash in Munich that killed eight Manchester United footballers.
James scores a great goal
A tribute on the Old Trafford lawn, empty in its stands, with a banner commemorating the victims of that dramatic event that Manchester does not want to forget every year, was part of the preamble to the twenty-third day.
De Gea fails at 2-1
The great first half of United heralded a comfortable triumph against Carlo Ancelotti’s team. Nothing of that. Uruguayan Edinson Cavani put the hosts ahead in the 24th minute when a Marcus Rashford pass headed into the net. It was the seventh as much as ‘red’ of Uruguayan.
And just before the break extended his advantage with a great goal from the Portuguese Bruno Fernandes, who performed a magnificent control on a pass from Aaron Wan Bissaka and signed a perfect finish. Everything changed in the first minutes of the second half when Abdoulaye Doucour took advantage of a rebound inside the area, shot low and overtook David de Gea to close the gap.
The tie was put three minutes later, in 52, the Colombian James Rodriguez after receiving a ball from Doucour. But at the end of twenty, the game full of alternatives seemed to lean on the local side. A free kick taken by Luke Shaw and culminated by Scott McTominay with a header brought Manchester United closer to victory, which he escaped in the last action of the game, when Calvert Lewin beat De Gea after receiving a ball from Michael Keane
