Another last minute goal conceded by Chelsea and Graham Potter's clean sheet record has gone. It took all of the 90 minutes and more at Stamford Bridge for Manchester United to make a breakthrough but Casemiro's last gasp equaliser levelled a largely cagey game.
Potter's team have now drawn two in a row after five wins on the bounce but extended the unbeaten managerial start to eight games, overall a largely positive spell for the Blues despite a game that will now feel like defeat.
Chelsea once again had to huff and puff to remain in the match, being outnumbered and outplayed for 35 in-which Kepa Arrizabalaga once again kept them from being behind. Potter made changes early and then his side controlled the game from there on.
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Jorginho's 87th minute penalty ought to have been enough but Erik ten Hag's United snatched a draw at the depth, a point that was ultimately fair in the grand scheme. Here's how the national media reacted to proceedings at SW6:
The Daily Star
Jacque Talbot writes: "Erik ten Hag's Manchester United side earned a deserved 1-1 draw with Chelsea after a chaotic final five minutes at Stamford Bridge.
"It was a draw that tasted quite bitter given how the away side looked so in control in the second-half.
"The Blues found their groove in the second period - with a late penalty from Jorginho finally opening the scoring. But that was cancelled out, though, by a header from Casemiro in the dying embers as United took home a point."
The Guardian
Jonathan Liew writes: "And you can sit there all night, playing with your silly machines. By the end of this taut and thrilling match, the iPads and the tactics boards had been stashed away. Graham Potter and Erik ten Hag stood on the touchline, contemplating this 1-1 draw, looking drained and perhaps even a little concussed by the experience.
"It had been a game of stratagems and counter-stratagems, plans made and then remade, two coaches trying to control the space on the pitch with the space in their heads. But ultimately this is also a contact sport, a thing of guts and loins, of inches and millimetres, of who can win the grapple and who can summon the courage to leap highest when everything is on the line.
"There have been more consequential games between Chelsea and Manchester United over the years. Louder games. Better and more exciting games. But perhaps never a game that has felt like more of an intellectual exercise, that has been so unashamed of its own erudition.
"As Potter and Ten Hag traded blows on the touchline, the evening began to splinter a little, not so much a single game of football as several distinct campaigns, a ceaseless and gripping battle for supremacy in which both teams probably got what they deserved."
Mail Online
Oliver Holt writes: "It had seemed in the dying moments of this game that its narrative would revolve around missed chances and that, most of all, it would revolve around The Man Who Wasn’t There.
"Manchester United had squandered several golden opportunities and had just gone a goal behind to a Chelsea penalty. The aggrieved fans of Cristiano Ronaldo, banished from the squad for his petulance, were queuing up to say how much he had been missed.
"But United and their manager, Erik ten Hag, deserved better than that. They had dominated swathes of this game and had looked more coherent and more accomplished than they ever have with Ronaldo in the side in his second coming at Old Trafford. Casemiro and Bruno Fernandes had been the best players on the pitch for much of the match. It did not feel right they should be on the losing side.
"It was a creditable point for United against a Chelsea team still unbeaten under Graham Potter, an enthralling battle between two bright, clever, impressive coaches and teams who appear to have been reinvigorated by them. They are locked together in fourth and fifth places, with Chelsea a point ahead. Both look like sides who will press hard for the top four and elevate their ambitions next season."
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