Finally Fulham become the first team success defeat Manchester United in this years, after winning trend without any teams can beat Manchester United make their player over confidence will continue the winning trend against Fulham. Can't believing playing on their home, Manchester United have defeated from Fulham and most crucial goals scoring on additional team and make United losses opportunity make close with top fourth position standings.
In fact, Manchester United was able to appear dominant from 57% ball possession to having more shots on target than Fulham, however the opposing team performed quite well when counter attacking and Alex Iwobi's goal was the result of a fairly effective counter attack. Its good moment for one week later because there are not over confidence with Manchester United fans their teams unbeaten since 2024 have broken by Fulham.
It seems that Manchester United may be too confident and make Manchester United underestimate Fulham in this match because after all, so far this season or in away matches that Fulham does not have good results . Also in some away matches Fulham lately also did not look good, but in this match Fulham managed to make a surprise because Fulham managedto beat Manchester United at Old Trafford. It is true, that Manchester United can still play well in this home match but ya, at least Fulham also did not play badly at all . Because anyway, the proof is that Fulham still managed to take advantage of the opportunities they had to convert into goals and of course, this result is also a good result for Fulham because Fulham managed to avenge the defeat in their first meeting this season against Manchester United.
It is very sad to see Man United really relying on Hojlund who is currently injured and was absent against Fulham which ended in defeat while Man United fans actually really want Man United to win to continue to get additional points and can get 5 consecutive wins but it is very disappointing once only because Hojlund absence cost Man United a win.
I just think why Ten Hag doesn't have other options that can give the best for his team while relying on just 1 player it will be very difficult for Man United to climb to a higher ranking and previously I thought Man United could still win because Fulham is a bad team lately but it is surprising to be able to beat a popular team like Man United.
Man United could have won but Rashford couldn't steal an empty spot to score and ended up failing even though he shot the ball several times but all failed.
Rashford doesn't seem worthy of replacing Hojlund position because in terms of performance it's very different but for some reason Erik Ten actually uses Rashford to replace Hojlund position even though Rashford is actually not suitable to replace Hojlund position but however Ten Hag strategy really failed in this match.