Manchester United vs Swansea City
Competition: Premier League
Match date: 16 August 2014
Venue: Old Trafford, Manchester
Competition: Premier League
Match date: 16 August 2014
Venue: Old Trafford, Manchester
Manchester United 1-2 Swansea City:
28' 0-1 Sung-Yueng Ki // 53' Wayne Rooney 1-1 // 72' 1-2 Gylfi Sigurdsson
Man United's ambition to start off
their new season with all three points suffered a disappointment as they
were surprisingly beaten by Swansea. Starting their season
under a new tactician at Old Trafford, there's no other expectation
aside from three points especially after their fine form at preseason.
However,
apparently results during those friendly games didn't mean much as
instead getting themselves in front, United were trailing after 28
minutes when Ki Sung-Yueng opened the scoring for Swansea.
That
slender lead lasted until half time break as Man United failed to get an
equalizing goal during that first 45 minutes period.
After the
break, Man United were pushing hard to get back on level terms and their
effort was finally rewarded when Wayne Rooney made it 1-1 on 53 minutes.
Just
when it looked like that match were going into Man United's favor,
Swansea City strike again as they restored their lead through Gylfi
Sigurdsson on 73 minutes. None of Louis Van Gaal's men efforts
were successful afterwards as Swansea City holding on to their slender lead
and grabbed a historic opening day win over United.
