Casemiro earns Man United well-deserved point in last-gasp draw at Chelsea

LONDON -- Chelsea and Manchester United played retired a choky 1-1 Premier League gully astatine Stamford Bridge connected Saturday. Jorginho converted a punishment to enactment the hosts successful front, lone for Casemiro to eke a header implicit the enactment and extremity the 10-plus-hour clean-sheet streak of Kepa Arrizabalaga, and springiness the Red Devils a deserved stock of the spoils.

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It's arsenic you were for the 2 clubs successful the table, with the Blues occupying 4th place, 1 constituent up of United successful fifth.

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Rapid reaction

1. Casemiro snatches constituent for United successful melodramatic decorativeness astatine Chelsea

Casemiro scored his archetypal extremity for Manchester United with a melodramatic headed equaliser 4 minutes into stoppage clip against Chelsea astatine Stamford Bridge.

Jorginho's 87th-minute penalty, pursuing a needless foul by Scott McTominay connected Armando Broja, had looked to person fixed Chelsea a triumph that their show hardly deserved. But Brazil planetary Casemiro, a £70 cardinal summertime signing from Real Madrid, salvaged a constituent for United by beating McTominay to a transverse and heading the shot past goalkeeper Kepa, who had pushed it onto the post.

Kepa scrambled to effort to support the shot retired of the net, but the extremity was fixed aft the Hawk-Eye strategy confirmed it had narrowly crossed the line.

United had dominated the chances and possession astatine Stamford Bridge, with Marcus Rashford and Antony wasting wide opportunities to score, but Jorginho looked to person sent them to a 4th league decision of the play erstwhile helium sent goalkeeper David De Gea the incorrect mode from the spot. McTominay had foolishly wrestled Broja to the crushed successful beforehand of referee Stuart Attwell, leaving the authoritative with nary enactment but to grant a penalty.

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It compounded a atrocious time for United, who mislaid defender Raphael Varane to what appeared to beryllium a worrying wounded successful the 2nd half. United had besides travelled to Stamford Bridge without Cristiano Ronaldo, who had been dropped by manager Erik 10 Hag for refusing to spell connected arsenic a substitute successful Wednesday's 2-0 location triumph against Tottenham.

Just arsenic the crippled looked to beryllium lost, though, Casemiro claimed a deserved constituent with his precocious header.

2. Ten Hag has toughened up Man United

There is an aged maxim that shot teams are a reflection of their manager's property and, contempt lone being successful complaint of Manchester United since the summer, Ten Hag's toughness and abrasiveness is already rubbing disconnected connected his players.

Last season, and repeatedly since Sir Alex Ferguson retired successful 2013, United person been a brushed interaction connected the transportation with opponents excessively often winning the carnal conflict implicit the 90 minutes. But Ten Hag is intelligibly a spiky quality and the players helium has added to the squad since taking complaint person fixed United the carnal borderline they person lacked for excessively long. Casemiro, Antony and Lisandro Martinez each displayed a hard borderline against Chelsea, astatine times going excessively acold successful challenges against their opponents.

Antony, who played for Ten Hag astatine Ajax Amsterdam, was booked for a foul connected Jorginho successful the archetypal half, portion Martinez was progressive successful a scuffle with Mason Mount pursuing a precocious situation by the Chelsea player. And Casemiro showed his acquisition with a bid of tactical fouls that helped halt Chelsea attacks.

It is not the broadside of the crippled that galore fans celebrate, but United person lacked alloy for years and Ten Hag has enactment it backmost into the team.

3. Chelsea midfield lacking legs and flair

The confirmation this week that N'Golo Kante's hamstring wounded volition present sideline the France planetary for 4 months was a hammer stroke to Chelsea due to the fact that of their deficiency of extent successful midfield.

Against United, Jorginho and Ruben Loftus-Cheek struggled to marque immoderate interaction successful the centre of the pitch. Manager Graham Potter had to tweak his enactment successful the archetypal half, replacing Marc Cucurella with Mateo Kovacic aft conscionable 36 minutes, successful an effort to springiness his squad the other legs required to stem the reddish tide.

The six-week World Cup shutdown volition assistance Chelsea arsenic it volition trim the magnitude of clip they volition beryllium abbreviated successful midfield, but their problems volition not vanish without caller players being signed.

Kante and Jorginho are some successful their 30s and Kovacic, astatine 28, is arguably beyond the highest of his career. The deficiency of vigor successful Chelsea's midfield is simply a effect of the workload each 3 person had during their careers. Conor Gallagher has been brought backmost to Stamford Bridge aft an awesome spell connected indebtedness astatine Crystal Palace past season, but helium isn't the reply to Chelsea's midfield issues, truthful they volition request to find a solution extracurricular the club.

Player ratings

Chelsea: Kepa Arrizabalaga 7; Trevoh Chalobah 8, Thiago Silva 6, Marc Cucurella 6; Cesar Azpilicueta 7, Jorginho 6, Ruben Loftus-Cheek 6, Ben Chilwell 6; Mason Mount 6, Raheem Sterling 5; Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang 5
Subs: Mateo Kovacic 6, Christian Pulisic 6, Armando Broja 6, Carney Chukwuemeka 6

Manchester United: David De Gea 6; Diogo Dalot 6, Raphael Varane 7, Lisandro Martinez 7, Luke Shaw 7; Casemiro 7; Antony 6, Bruno Fernandes 6, Christian Eriksen 7, Jadon Sancho 5; Marcus Rashford 5
Subs: Fred 6, Victor Lindelof 6, Scott McTominay 5, Anthony Elanga 6

Best and worst performers

BEST: Trevoh Chalobah, Chelsea. The Chelsea defender was tasked with keeping Rashford quiescent and helium did it truthful good that United substituted the England guardant midway done the 2nd half. Rashford was ineffective, but Chalobah was a large crushed for that.

WORST: Raheem Sterling, Chelsea. Chelsea's prima signing of the summertime has blown blistery and acold since arriving from Manchester City, and helium was beauteous overmuch subzero against United. Sterling shone with apical prime astir him astatine City, but he's uncovering it tougher to radiance arsenic the main antheral astatine Chelsea.

Highlights and notable moments

Not overmuch from this 1 could beryllium qualified arsenic a "highlight." There was this lowlight, though.

After the match: What the managers, players said

Fernandes connected the punishment awarded to Chelsea: "I said to the referee that successful the Premier League this benignant of interaction is each game. I didn't spot it, I can't accidental if it was close oregon not. [McTominay] said helium was not holding him. I don't know."

Potter: "I can't basal present and accidental we deserved to win. The 2 teams had a spell and a constituent is astir right."

Key stats (provided by ESPN Stats & Information)

- Before Casemiro's equaliser successful the 4th infinitesimal of second-half stoppage time, it had been 623 minutes since Kepa conceded a goal.

- At the different extremity of the pitch, the punishment converted by Jorginho was the archetypal extremity conceded by David De Gea successful 442 minutes.

Up next

Chelsea: Chelsea volition adjacent beryllium successful enactment connected Tuesday for a Champions League group-stage lucifer successful Austria against FC Salzburg, earlier returning to Premier League play connected Saturday astatine Brighton & Hove Albion.

Manchester United: United volition invited Sheriff Tiraspol to Old Trafford connected Thursday for a Europa League group-stage contest, with different location crippled waiting connected Sunday, erstwhile they'll big West Ham United successful the Premier League.