For this match Brentford lined up 352 with defenders Collins, Ajer, Zanka, wingbacks Lewis-Potter, Roerslev, midfielders Jensen, Janelt, Yarmoliuk, forwards Toney, Wissa
United played 4231 with Lindelof, Varane, Dalot, Wan-Bissaka at the back, McTominay, Mainoo at the back, Beefy at attacking midfielder, Garnacho, Rashford on the wings, and Højlund at the front.
Brentford is not far away from the relegation zone, they need to use the home field to grab points, the game began with full pressure, has been using the two wings of the pass, let Toney and Wissa in the center of the strong attack, although the beginning of the time did not create a shot on goal, but Maguire's absence of the lineup of Manchester United in the aerial ball scramble in fact is weaker, Brentford this tactic is not a problem!
Manchester United is still using the two wings to play counterattack, recently Garnacho and Rashford's style of play has changed, mainly to see Garnacho's changes, he is no longer confined to the right wing or the left wing, but in the game will be free to change positions, Rashford to match the situation to move to the other side, the best use of Manchester United's wingers is Garnacho, so that he is free to change positions It does improve the attack
In the 23rd minute Brentford played a direct pass to Toney who hit the post, they looked like they had come prepared and quickly turned into a siege, when United wanted to play a counterattack they could immediately after the defense converted into a counterattack, taking advantage of the counterattack in the middle of the road by Jensen and Janelt, hitting the gaps in the waist of the United upwards, and after the middle of the first half there have been chances to create!
Brentford clearly treated this game as a desperate end of season relegation battle, attacking hard all the way up the pitch and completely disrupting United's possession in the midfield, just having to take a free kick in the first half alone had sent the keeper to the halfway line to open the scoring, and they did get the advantage of the middle of the pitch, with Jensen and Janelt making it hard for B Faye to consistently take the ball out of their pack, having made him virtually disappear from the first half.
United replaced Varane and Maguire at the start of the second half. tenhag reacted very quickly. Brentford's ball up the wings in the first half was horrible. He had to catch up with Maguire quickly to stop the aerial ball pressure. Then United started making substitutions one by one. He replaced Garnacho and Antony on 59 minutes, Lindelof on 69 minutes, Lisandro Martinez who was injured earlier
Brentford has always been the more ferocious side of the attack, United basically no attack in the second half, in the 80th minute Ten Hagar decided to replace Casemiro and Mount, remove Mainoo and Rashford, he wanted Casemiro to stand back, increase Mount into the midfield attack, but the two came on and did not change the situation, Brentford Brentford continued to attack, they replaced Damsgaard and Mbeumo at 71, and then Maupay at 87. They used the substitutions to maintain the attacking pressure, instead of putting the strongest formation on the pitch at the beginning, they used the substitutions to distribute the attacking power and strength evenly, and maintained the pressure level all the time.
From then on, Brentford kept Manchester United at bay. United tried to fight back but simply couldn't turn back. In fact, up front it was a case of Garnacho losing the momentum going forward after coming off the bench. Later substitutions of Antoni, Mount and others had no discernible effect on the attack
Just before the end of the game, in the 96th minute, Antony pushed the ball forward but it was refracted, McTominay barely caught the ball at the top of the box and flicked the ball to Casemiro, who calmly pushed the ball to the left, where Mount went up and pushed it home with his left foot from the 9-yard box.
There was an accident at the end, Antony's cross should have been blocked, and even if it had been in the right place it would have been blocked, but the refereeing caused confusion for Brentford, and the cool and somewhat flippant handling of McTominay and Casemiro resulted in the goal.
United thought it was a shutout. Unexpectedly Brentford continued to attack frantically. The ball that was originally cleared by Manchester United was hung high in the outer penalty area. Tony rushed to the end with the ball on the right side of the box. At this point, United were also tired. He immediately exited the box fully, but he completely exposed the 12-yard hinterland. Tony just passed it back to the 45. Defender Ajer came up and forced a shot. The ball went through a very dense wall of people and broke through the goal. Because the crowd was so dense.
