PREMIER LEAGUE : FULHAM VS MANCHESTER UNITED – 24/08/2025 (PHOTO – EMILE SMITH ROWE CELEBRATES)

PREMIER LEAGUE – FULHAM VS MANCHESTER UNITED – 24/08/2025

MAN UNITED MADE 397 PASSES, WITH AN 82% PASS ACCURACY, HAD 6 CORNERS, AND 10 SHOTS, WITH 3 ON TARGET, INCLUDING A COUPLE OF NEAR-MISSES FROM MATHEAS CUNHA, PLUS LENI YORO’S FLICK AT 58 MINS – WHICH ACTUALLY WENT DOWN AS A RODRIGO MUNIZ OWN GOAL, AS IT DEFLECTED OFF HIM. (BELOW)

EARLIER, CALVIN BASSEY WAS SEEN TO BE PARTICULARLY HANDSY WITH MASON MOUNT, PULLING HIM TO THE GROUND, AND WHILST THE FOUL WAS NOT GIVEN IMMEDIATELY, VAR CALLED CHRIS KAVANAGH TO REVUE THE SITUATION, AFTER WHICH A PENALTY WAS AWARDED TO MAN UNITED.

AS FERNANDES WAS GETTING READY TO TAKE THE PENALTY, CHRIS KAVANAGH ACCIDENTLY NUDGED INTO HIM AS HE WALKED BEHIND HIM, BUT IT SEEMED TO PUT BRUNO FERNANDES OFF-KILTER, AND THE BALL WENT SAILING OVER THE TOP OF THE BAR, WHICH IS VERY UNCHARACTERISTIC OF HIM. (FERNANDES IS NOT A HAPPY BUNNY ABOUT THE INCIDENT AND HAS ADMITTED SINCE THAT KAVANAGH HAS FAILED TO APOLOGISE TO HIM.)

FULHAM MADE 419 PASSES WITH AN 84% PASS ACCURACY, (HAD 53% POSSESSION), 9 CORNERS, AND 13 SHOTS, WITH ALEX IWOBYI IMPRESSING TIME-AND-AGAIN, AND PROVIDING THE ASSIST TO EMILE SMITH ROWE’S 74 MINUTE STUNNER ALSO,  (BELOW)

– JUST 94 SECONDS AFTER COMING OFF THE BENCH!  MEANING THAT THIS RIVETING MATCH ENDED IN A 1 – 1 DRAW!

BY AMANDA WATERS