West Bromwich Albion beget waited for 32 years to celebrate victory in this fixture and it will not take long for Manchester United to work out how that sprint came to an cessation. The postmortem will focus on the poor marking that allowed Salomón Rondón the time to control and shoot domestic from 12 yards out but,more than anything, the two yellow cards that Juan Mata picked up in the space of 158 seconds in the first half.
It was difficult to know what was going through Mata’s mind when he brought down Darren Fletcher little more than two minutes after picking up a yellow card for preventing the same player from taking a rapid/fast free-kick. The fact that Fletcher was inside his own half on both occasions, and not remotely close to threatening the United goal,added to the sense of bemusement about how careless and naive Mata could be.
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Source: theguardian.com