Manchester United vs Bodo/Glimt LIVE: Latest rating and updates as Hojlund ranges on stroke of half time
Manchester United will seek their first win under Ruben Amorim as their new manager takes charge at Old Trafford for the first time.
The hosts welcome Norwegian side Bodo/Glimt to Old Trafford in Amorim’s first Europa League game looking to get their stuttering campaign back on track. While the Portuguese coach’s opening fixture against Ipswich brought a new system and new approach, many of the same failings that led to the sacking of Erik ten Hag remained apparent as Manchester United ceded an early lead to be held at Portman Road.
Their visitors tonight begin the fifth round of fixtures in this revamped league phase a point ahead of Amorim’s side, though may have one eye on Sunday’s decisive Eliteserien fixture against relegated Lillestrom. Victory there will secure a fourth title in five years for the club, who play their home games inside the Arctic Circle and should thus have few qualms with a chilly Manchester night.
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HT: Manchester United 2-2 Bodo/Glimt
Good fun, that. A couple of corking goals, a couple of defensive lapses, and a four-goal half split evenly in a manner that feels about fair. More to come in a little bit.
GOAL! MANCHESTER UNITED 2-2 Bodo/Glimt (Rasmus Hojlund, 45 minutes)
Neatly finished and Manchester United equalise!
Deft and devastating from Rasmus Hojlund! It’s superb work from Noussair Mazraoui initially, stepping in as Bodo/Glimt try to play out of danger and then jinking past two defenders. His cross looks innocuous but Hojlund takes it delightfully, flicking up with the instep of his left foot and then thumping a mallet-like right boot at the ball. In it flies to square affairs just before half time.
Manchester United 1-2 Bodo/Glimt, 43 minutes
Garnacho earns a corner with his next foray towards the thick white line, and another comes immediately after as a Bodo/Glimt head turns the Argentine’s delivery behind. There is nothing doing from the second set piece.
Manchester United 1-2 Bodo/Glimt, 41 minutes
Manchester United are rather being forced into that sort of forced effort. Bruno Fernandes can’t beat the blocking bodies with a tame attempt from 25 yards, and though Alejandro Garnacho navigates successfully to the byline, the only danger to the Bodo/Glimt goal comes from an errant attempted clearance from a visiting defender. One comes, but Nikita Khaikin is able to deal with his teammate’s skew.
Manchester United 1-2 Bodo/Glimt, 38 minutes
A cross-cum-shot from Tyrell Malacia’s left foot briefly has the Bodo/Glimt goalkeeper Nikita Khaikin fretting, though without swerve it’s never likely to curve inside the far post. Away for a goal kick it hops.
Manchester United 1-2 Bodo/Glimt, 34 minutes
There’s a bit of spice and spite in this contest all of a sudden. Matthijs de Ligt and Jens Petter Hauge jaw with one another before referee Lawrence Visser comes charging over with intervening peeps of his whistle like a traffic cop.
Manchester United 1-2 Bodo/Glimt, 31 minutes
Andreas Helmersen goes into the book after stepping awkwardly on the top of Bruno Fernandes’s foot. I’m not sure it merited a caution, it must be said, though Helmersen’s verbals at the referee perhaps don’t aid his case in avoiding a sanction.
ANALYSIS: Bodo/Glimt pounce on rusty Tyrell Malacia
New manager, same problems? Perhaps, though this feels spectacularly embarrassing, even by Manchester United’s standards. But Bodo/Glimt’s quickfire turnaround is a reward for the 6,700 fans who have come. The largest away following ever for a European game at Old Trafford have seen two brilliantly-taken goals. The second nevertheless reflected badly on the outpaced Tyrell Malacia, who looked rusty on his first United start for 550 days.