Manchester United breathed life in his stuttering Premier League 2025-26 season when goals from Bruno Fernandes and Casemiro yielded an exciting 2-1 home victory on Chelsea on Saturday.
A hectic first half came from the worst possible start for Chelsea when goalkeeper Robert Sanchez was sent away in the fifth minute for a flying outages in Bryan Mbeumo, which raised the United Forward when he was on goal.
The host, with only one victory to his name earlier, made his numerical benefit counting, with Fernandes and Casemiro United placing 2-0 with 2-0 within 37 minutes.
The unnecessary dismissal of Casemiro just before the rest gave the figures at the same time and Chelsea gave a way back in the game, but the deceased header of Trevoh Chalobah was everything that the visitor could collect while a Nervy United held up for a vital three points.
The pressure was mounted on United Coach Ruben Amorim after the defeat in the Manchester Derby Last weekend, the Portuguese left with a winning record of only eight of 31 league games since he had taken the lead last November.
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The visit of Chelsea offered Amorim the opportunity to start correcting that lean return, with the Blues -Winless at Old Trafford since 2013. Sanchez’s result assistance helped the besieged United Manager’s Cause a lot.
Together with the added setback of Cole Palmer that was withdrawn by injury, Chelsea -Baas Enzo Maresca was forced into an early repenting, so that three replacements were made in the first 21 minutes, the earliest has a party ever done in a Premier League match.
It was not long before Fernandes to the Euphoria of Old Trafford was added to the floating Manchester Rain, the skipper pushed his 100th goal for United in all competitions.
Casemiro then brought United in an inviolable position after determined work by Luke Shaw to keep the attack alive, the experienced Brazilian led his first goal of the season.
A second booking quickly turned Casemiro from Hero to Schurk when he became the first player to score and was sent in the first half of a Premier League match since Emmanuel Adebayor for Spurs against Arsenal in November 2012.
Even when chasing the game, Chelsea offered very little attacking threat to Chalobah’s header 10 minutes in time. United looked rawless from there, but Altay Bayindir remained largely worried in the home goal when the host held.
Published on September 21, 2025