Norwich City vs Manchester United: Cristiano Ronaldo’s late penalty gives Manchester United all three points, Norwich City 0-1 Manchester United: Cristiano Ronaldo rescues Manchester United once again, the Portuguese Superstar was brought down by Norwich right-back Max Aarons in the box and the Portuguese slotted home the penalty himself as Ralf Rangnick’s side ride their luck to beat Norwich. Follow Live Premier League news, updates only on InsideSport.IN
Three points = secured 🔐#MUFC | #NORMUN
— Manchester United (@ManUtd) December 11, 2021
Match Report:
Despite being at the bottom of the table right now, Dean Smith’s Norwich side gave United good competition and was arguably the better side for the first 30 minutes of the game, the home side even had plenty of chances but failed to find the back of the net given their poor finishing.
Ronaldo saw a shot beaten away by Tim Krul in the 37th minute and the Netherlands international also tipped over a Harry Maguire header on the stroke of halftime after Alex Telles hit the bar with a deflected free kick early on.
United were awarded a penalty on 73 minutes when Scott McTominay crossed a ball into the box and Ronaldo was pulled down by Max Aarons.
🗣 “It was too easy for Man United to referee the game today, Rashford game himself a free-kick in the first half.”
Dean Smith questions the decisions in the game as he felt it was not a foul on Ronaldo for the penalty pic.twitter.com/91ewGiHm5H
— Football Daily (@footballdaily) December 11, 2021
The Portugal international made no mistake with the spot-kick, smashing it into the left-hand corner.
The home side piled on pressure in the closing stages and De Gea rescued United again when he clawed out an Ozan Kabak header before Eric Bailly deflected a Billy Gilmour shot with a last-gasp lunge.
There was some concern for Victor Lindelof during the match when he went down pointing to his chest a few minutes beforehand. However, he was able to walk off the pitch unassisted.
Maguire said after the match that Lindelof “felt a little bit of discomfort” but that he was fine in the dressing room.
🗣 “He was struggling to breathe.”
Ralf Rangnick reassures that Victor Lindelof is okay after checks from the medical team pic.twitter.com/W3NshTtjHz
— Football Daily (@footballdaily) December 11, 2021
“I haven’t seen that many teams play against the top teams like Norwich did so,” Rangnick said after the game. “They didn’t play like a bottom team.
“In the end we need to be able to compete on that kind of level and be physically ready. There’s still room for improvement in this area.”
“It’s another clean sheet but still a lot of work to do,” Rangnick added.
David De Gea’s post-match comments:
“The second half I was not at all happy with the amount of corners that we gave away, but we got the three points.
🗣 “I was feeling very good, I was enjoying the game.”
David de Gea is happy with his MOTM performance against Norwich City pic.twitter.com/so1gjtsYoo
— Football Daily (@footballdaily) December 11, 2021
“We have conceded the highest amount of goals in the top 10. Now we have two clean sheets which is good but we still need to improve on that away, especially against physical teams or teams that attack high like Norwich did,” Said David de Gea.
🗣 “We gave the ball too easy, too quickly.”
David de Gea felt Manchester United could’ve played better as they allowed Norwich City to create chances pic.twitter.com/utAUOTTIbP
— Football Daily (@footballdaily) December 11, 2021
The result lifted United to fifth place in the standings on 27 points from 16 games, behind fourth-placed West Ham United on goal difference, while Norwich stayed bottom on 10 points.
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