Shock Defeat For Manchester United

Dim­itar Berbatov

Manchester United suffered a shock 3–2 loss to old rivals Black­burn Rovers in the luchtime game at Old Traf­ford on Sat­urday. After Black­burn had gone into a 2–0 lead thanks to a double from Yak­ubu Aiyeg­beni, Dim­itar Ber­batov hit twice for Manchester United only for Grant Han­ley to net the win­ner for the vis­it­ors with ten minutes left.

In the 16th minute of the derby encounter, Black­burn Rovers were awar­ded a pen­alty which Yak­ubu Aiyeg­beni sub­sequently con­ver­ted to put the Ewood Park out­fit ahead. To make things even worse for Manchester United, Yak­ubu Aiyeg­beni scored his second goal of the match a mere six minutes into the second period when the Nigerian inter­na­tional out­paced Phil Jones before he powered the ball through the legs of Span­ish net cus­todian David de Gea. Sir Alex Ferguson´s title chal­len­ging team respon­ded instantly as for­ward think­ing wing back Rafael da Silva found Dim­itar Ber­batov who headed the ball behind Mark Bunn in the Black­burn goal from close range after 52 minutes of action. Only ten minutes later, Ber­batov man­aged to level the score when the Manchester United goal plun­derer shot past the Black­burn net­minder after Ant­o­nio Valen­cia had cut the ball back from the right-hand byline. Then in the 80th minute of the play, a dread­ful mis­take from Manchester United goal­keeper David de Gea allowed Scot­land inter­na­tional Grant Han­ley to head home the visitor´s win­ning goal. Des­pite the embar­rass­ing 3–2 defeat against Black­burn Rovers, Manchester United are still joint table top­pers with neigh­bour­ing Manchester City who lost 1–0 against Sun­der­land at the Sta­dium of Light.

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