Manchester United 1-3 Brighton: Welbeck leads charge as woeful Red Devils suffer Old Trafford humiliation

Erik ten Hag will have questions to answer after his Manchester United side lost meekly to Brighton at Old Trafford.

Manchester United were unbeaten at Old Trafford in 31 games United, and started brightly as Marcus Rashford fired at goal forcing a fine save from Jason Steele.

Brighton began to grow into the game, and were rewarded for their efforts, opening the scoring in the 20th minute. 

The goal was well worked as Simon Adingra clipped the ball into the box towards Adam Lallana, who cleverly dummied to allow former United man Danny Welbeck to steer it past André Onana,

United did have the ball in the back of the net before half time, but it was ruled out after Rashford was adjudged to have taken the ball out of play before sliding it to Rasmus Højlund.

The hosts started the second half as they did the first, with a chance falling once again to Rashford, but once more opportunities went begging and they were eventually punished as Brighton went up the other end and doubled their lead. 

Pascal Groß pounced on a loose ball, feinted to deceive Lisandro Martínez, and buried his finish into the bottom corner for his seventh strike against the Red Devils.

As United committed more men forward trying to pull a goal back, they were duly punished by João Pedro’s sublime first-time finish from the edge of the box.