{"id":332399,"date":"2025-10-25T21:37:14","date_gmt":"2025-10-25T21:37:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/332399\/"},"modified":"2025-10-25T21:37:14","modified_gmt":"2025-10-25T21:37:14","slug":"man-united-4-2-brighton-oct-25-2025-game-analysis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/332399\/","title":{"rendered":"Man United 4-2 Brighton (Oct 25, 2025) Game Analysis"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bryan Mbeumo’s brace helped Manchester United<\/a> secure a third win in a row as they survived a late scare to beat bogey team Brighton 4-2.<\/p>\n

The Seagulls had won six of their last seven Premier League<\/a> meetings with the Red Devils and arrived in the north-west seeking a fourth straight Old Trafford victory.<\/p>\n

But United finally overcame their Brighton hoodoo with a 4-2 triumph, with Mbeumo’s goals following efforts from Matheus Cunha<\/a> and Casemiro<\/a> as they built on last weekend’s win at Liverpool<\/a>.<\/p>\n

That Anfield triumph saw Ruben Amorim celebrate back-to-back league wins for the first time since taking charge last November and this victory moved them up to fourth.<\/p>\n

Cunha opened his United account with a 20-yard strike that Casemiro added to with a deflected effort before Mbeumo made it 3-0 after the break.<\/p>\n

But the Red Devils rarely do things the easy way. In-form Danny Welbeck’s free-kick and teenage substitute Charalampos Kostoulas’ stoppage-time header had the hosts wobbling but Mbeumo struck at the death to wrap things up.<\/p>\n

\"\"Man United have won three straight games for the first time under Ruben Amorim.<\/p>\n

Martin Rickett\/PA Images via Getty Images<\/p>\n

Co-owner Sir Jim Ratcliffe was in attendance for a match that United started on the front foot, with skipper Bruno Fernandes<\/a> nodding wide barely 30 seconds into his 300th appearance for the club.<\/p>\n

Brighton boss Fabian Hurzeler complained former United striker Welbeck was shoved when shooting by Fernandes, who was leading even louder appeals against referee Anthony Taylor.<\/p>\n

Amad Diallo went down in the box after a Maxim De Cuyper<\/a> challenge, but VAR Michael Oliver agreed that the full-back had played the ball.<\/p>\n

Cunha saw a shot saved as play continued and Old Trafford was further enraged when Lewis Dunk<\/a> stopped Mbeumo in the box – frustration they seemed to harness as they took a 24th-minute lead.<\/p>\n

Cunha kept his cool after some battling play, taking a touch on the edge of the box and sending a precise right-footed effort beyond Bart Verbruggen<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Brighton fell further behind in the 34th minute. Luke Shaw’s high pressing had been noticeable from the outset, and he cut out Jan Paul van Hecke’s pass to Georginio Rutter<\/a>. The ball went on to Casemiro, whose long-range strike hit Yasin Ayari<\/a> and wrongfooted Verbruggen.<\/p>\n

Dunk and Benjamin Sesko<\/a> missed chances as the first half came to a close, with Fernandes forcing a point-blank stop from Brighton’s goalkeeper three minutes after half-time.<\/p>\n

Sesko stung the palms before Senne Lammens’ fingertips denied Yankuba Minteh<\/a> – an intervention missed by the officials – before United added another.<\/p>\n

United won the ball and Sesko played in Mbeumo, who squeezed a low shot through Dunk’s legs and past Verbruggen at his near post in front of the Stretford End in the 61st minute.<\/p>\n

Rutter saw claims ignored for a foul in the build-up by Shaw, who was soon replaced with an apparent knock.<\/p>\n

Only a smart save from Verbruggen stopped Mbeumo adding another before freshly introduced Patrick Dorgu<\/a> faced a VAR check for a potential red card.<\/p>\n

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–\u00a0Fernandes: Man United didn’t block summer exit<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

The substitute tangled with Minteh when trying to stop him run through on goal but escaped with a booking, although he could not avoid punishment as Welbeck fired home the resulting free-kick in the 74th minute.<\/p>\n

Lammens could have done better with that attempt but stopped Tommy Watson adding another soon after.<\/p>\n

The United goalkeeper stopped an audacious Ferdi Kadioglu<\/a> attempt as the clock wound down, but he was unable to stop Kostoulas reducing the deficit in stoppage time as he glanced home a James Milner<\/a> corner.<\/p>\n

Fernandes was denied by another Verbruggen stop and then smartly left a low Ayden Heaven<\/a> pass that Mbeumo continued to lash home to settle nerves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bryan Mbeumo’s brace helped Manchester United secure a third win in a row as they survived a late…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1304,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[221,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-332399","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"tag-soccer","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115436967883540968","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=332399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332399\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=332399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=332399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=332399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}