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United was lucky to have won yesterday. Brighton was a far better team before the red card and that De Gea's save at the end of the 1st half was truly world class.

At the end when Brighton was left with 10 men individual quality came through - but United will have to play a lot better than this if they want to keep the top 4 position they climbed into with yesterday's win.

I watched this match till the first half. Manchester United had a very annoying performance. Brighton had some good attacks in the first half. Manchester United would not have been able to win without an experienced talented goalkeeper like De Gea. De Gea saved a lot in this match. But I am happy because after a long time we have seen goals from Ronaldo. He played well. If he returns to form, maybe Manchester United will do better in the upcoming matches.

We will just say luck shinned on Manchester united against brighton the performance wasn't enough for the victory but since the goal is all that matters in each match Manchester has been able to secure a full 3 points, De Gea actually saved the day for united. I won't say Ronaldo performance was bad but united is a big team so the should live up to the task

Ronaldo had the first goal but after that he didn't show any improvement in wanting to keep the lead even when Brighton went down to 10 men getting the red card 3 minutes after that Manchester united's goal.
He had plenty of opportunities to capitalize on it but just couldn't do it with several passes to Bruno so he could put it into the back of the net.
Right at the couple of seconds of injury time left did Fernandes finally get the second goal but Brighton could of tied it easily the way they were playing.

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Quote from: Cnut237 on Today at 01:45:37 PM

Yeah, you'd have to see Arsenal as favourites for fourth. They have 3 games in hand over Man U, and are 4 points behind, but also have a slightly better goal difference. Even a win, a draw and a defeat across those three games in hand would likely see Arsenal move to fourth. I'm skeptical that Man U will be able to maintain that position, it seems like they owe a lot of it to de Gea's inspired form at the moment.

Compared to other teams arsenal does have a great chance to get into position 4, because it has several postponed matches, but even so it is not impossible that arsenal can get out of the top 4 later, because they have postponed matches against big teams like tottenham and also chelsea, when you see Arsenal slightly difficult match against Burnley and Wolves made me not sure if Arsenal could get full points against other teams in the postponed match later.

As Ragnick had said, it is quite sad that they are settling for fourth place atop the table but even getting that is going to be a struggle to them. Which is very bad to say about such a team as Manchester United with the players they have on their starting roster.