◉ 30’ Man Utd 0-1 Brighton
◉ 39’ Man Utd 0-2 Brighton
Pascal Gross at the double at Old Trafford.
Pascal Gross has scored more Premier League goals against Manchester United than any other side (6).
32% of his Premier League goals have come against the Red Devils.
13 - James Maddison has been directly involved in 13 Premier League goals for Leicester in 2022 (7 goals, 6 assists), only one Englishman has had a hand in more in this calendar year (Harry Kane – 21). Flying.
Brighton are the first side not in the ‘Big Six’ to go in 2-0 up at HT in a Premier League game at Old Trafford since Newcastle in October 2018.
Man Utd came back to win 3-2 that day.
Manchester United lose 2-1 to Brighton to start the Premier League season. Rough start to the Erik ten Hag era
Before today, Brighton had never won a Premier League game in Manchester, failing in their 11 attempts against Utd and City.
They’ve just won 2-1 at Old Trafford in Erik ten Hag’s first game in charge.
07 May 2022: Brighton beat Man Utd 4-0, the biggest top-flight league win in the club’s history
07 August 2022: Brighton beat Man Utd 2-1, the first away win at Old Trafford in the club’s history
Wow.
1 - Erik ten Hag is the first Manchester United manager to lose his first Premier League game in charge since Louis van Gaal in August 2014 against Swansea City. Setback.
Erling Haaland has been involved in seven goals in his last three games played on
the opening weekend of a league season,one assist with Red Bull Salzburg in 2019-20, two goals with
Borussia Dortmund in 2020-21 and two goals and two assists with Dortmund last season
#stattattack
Will this be the case today?
Erling Haaland has scored a debut goal in all of these competitions:
Norwegian Football Cup
Champions League
Bundesliga
DFB-Pokal
DFL-Supercup
Premier League