It's not easy for team to win host and Manchester United are aiming higher, it will be difficult to make this game a weak one against Manchester United even though I think they didn't put more effort. Chelsea really outperform them here because if not for the penalty, I'm sure thag Manchester United might be able to make goals because when Chelsea score, that remaining time will be difficult for them to fight back Chelsea. Atleast nobody is going to criticized them today.
I will agree with you that Manchester United were simply better in this match than we even see them, they played like school boys last weekend against West Ham but were much better in the previous matches. One thing I will like to point something out is even under Erik Ten Hag Chelsea has been a club that Manchester United doesn’t have lots of problems facing they won just last season with a die minute goals from Cole Palmer, so even at that I knew Manchester United wouldn’t be any different this time around they will properly get a point off them and it turned out well.
This game between is nothing different from a Ten Hag formation but the players were just simply pumped and they wanted to prove their worth to the incoming manager and that’s why they put in a better performance today and nothing more. Seriously I would disagree with you that Chelsea were better, Chelsea actually didn’t create any chances quite as clear as Manchester United other than the Fofana header and the brilliant goal by Caicedo. But Manchester had many chances with Gernacho wasting too or more, Bruno blazing one up and Zirkzee who was suppose to score also didn’t take the chance presented to him