{"id":424724,"date":"2024-10-03T21:40:41","date_gmt":"2024-10-03T21:40:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=424724"},"modified":"2024-10-03T23:08:40","modified_gmt":"2024-10-03T23:08:40","slug":"united-captain-sent-off-again-before-91st-minute-twist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=424724","title":{"rendered":"United captain sent off again before 91st minute twist"},"content":{"rendered":"

Harry Maguire salvaged a 3-3 draw for 10-man Manchester United<\/a> \ufeffin a wild Europa League clash with Porto on Friday (AEST).<\/a><\/p>\n

The England centre back rose high to score the equalising goal from a trademark header in the 91st minute \ufeffat Estadio do Dragao.<\/p>\n

United had let a 2-0 lead slip to trail 3-2 in the second half and the wheels further fell off when captain Bruno Fernandes was sent off in the 81st minute for a high challenge for the ball that caught Nehuen Perez and resulted in his second yellow card of the night.<\/p>\n

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\"Shoddy<\/p>\n

Fernandes, furious at the decision, was also sent off in United's previous 3-0 loss to Tottenham Hotspur but the red card and a three match ban was later overturned on appeal.<\/p>\n

It was the first red card of the Portugal veteran's United career.\ufeff<\/p>\n

Marcus Rashford and Rasmus Hojlund\ufeff scored first half goals for United before first Pepe and then a Samu Omorodion double fired the home side in front.<\/p>\n

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United also drew their opening match in Europe, 1-1 against FC Twente.<\/p>\n

\ufeffMaguire's late heroics only slightly ease the enormous pressure on United manager Erik ten Hag ahead of a Premier League visit to high flying Aston Villa on Monday (AEDT).<\/p>\n

"We started the game very good and we dominated and scored two good goals, but then we lost control," Ten Hag said.<\/p>\n

\"Coach<\/p>\n

"The start was good, the middle part was not good and we finished very good.<\/p>\n

"You see again the team is willing, strong character, but the middle part, the defending, we have to improve.<\/p>\n

"Nothing is easy, but this is nothing for me to panic about because I experienced it so often with my teams during seasons that you are facing those problems."<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Harry Maguire salvaged a 3-3 draw for 10-man Manchester United \ufeffin a wild Europa League clash with Porto on Friday (AEST). The England centre back […]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":424728,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424724"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=424724"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424724\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":424733,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424724\/revisions\/424733"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/424728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=424724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=424724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=424724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}