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90+5 min A cross reaches Evanilsen, who sends a looping header over the bar.
90+4 min Fernandes and Shaw combine to get United into the final third. Then they fail to combine and Fernandes’ pass goes straight out of play.
90+3 min Mainoo drives through midfield and Smith gets a yellow card for pulling him back.
90+2 min Another calm catch by Lammens. He needs to go long, surely, just to relieve the pressure.
90+1 min This will be the first of NINE minutes of added time. Bournemouth could win it 4-2!
90 min A caption inform us that Junior Kroupi now has nine goals this season, seven more than any other teenager. ANother shot comes in, from Truffert, but Lammens has it covered.
89 min Bournemouth string together about 20 passes. United win the ball back but can’t get out of their left-back zone. A Bournemouth cross is headed away, crucially, by Heaven.
87 min Andoni Iraola makes another sub. Off goes Rayan, on comes Ben Gannon-Doak for a rare outing.
86 min Brooks cruises into the box and takes a shot that is blocked by Yoro – now United’s senior centre-back.
85 min United’s last two visits to Bournemouth have ended in a draw. They’d probably settle for a third.
84 min Casemiro went off too, to be replaced by Manuel Ugarte. The momentum is with Bournemouth, and so is the ball.
82 min Carrick responds by sending on Ayden Heaven to take Maguire’s place at the back. Heaven has played seven minutes in Carrick’s ten games in charge. And the man sacrificed is Cunha! That’s a surprise.
GOAL! Bournemouth 2-2 Man United (Kroupi pen 80)
There it is! Yet another equaliser. Kroupi goes left, Lammens goes the other way.
Penalty and red card! Harry Maguire sent off
Maguire’s red-letter day has just gone horribly wrong. He put a hand on Evanilson’s chest. It’s soft, and he’s saying so in no uncertain terms, but he’ll have to go.
77 min This is Bournemouth’s highest-scoring game since 10 February, when they won 2-1 at Everton. And they look as if they can smell their next equaliser.
75 min Shot! Scott hits a screamer onto the bar, it rebounds onto Lammen’s back and somehow doesn’t end up in the net.
73 min Subs! For Bournemouth – Brooks and Smith replace Adli and Jimenez.
GOAL!! Bournemouth 1-2 Man United (Hill OG 71)
How do you celebrate an England recall at 33? If you’re Harry Maguire, by forcing an error at the back post which restores your team’s lead. The error was Senesi’s I think – nothing poor Hill could do about it.
70 min United go searching for their lost lead and Cunha wins a corner.
On the bench, it’s Sesko time! On comes United’s supersub and off comes Mbeumo, who’s been looking weary for the past month.
69 min That’s the fourth time this season that Bournemouth have found an equaliser against Man United. The first three came in the 4-4 at Old Trafford.
GOAL! Bournemouth 1-1 Man United (Christie 66)
They’ve done it again! Christie finds the net with a neat poke through the legs of Maguire. But it’s complicated … There’s a penalty check at the other end, for a possible foul on Amad. No pen! Huge cheer.
65 min The corner, like the other nine or so in this match, comes to nothing.
64 min United, relaxed by the goal, push forward again. Mainoo plays a lovely through ball to Cunha, who wins a corner.
62 min So United get a goal, as they have in every game under Michael Carrick. It came somewhat against the run of play. But at least Bournemouth’s fans don’t have to sit through another 0-0.
GOAL! Bournemouth 0-1 Man United (Fernandes 60)
Fernandes takes his time, goes left … and sends Petrovic the wrong way!
Penalty! To Man United
Cunha goes down in the box, somewhat theatrically, but Jimenez did pull his shirt so it’s hard to see this being overturned.
58 min Cunha, on the left, sends in what would have been a very good cross for Benjamin Sesko. It sails over the bald head of Bryan Mbeumo. Next thing you know, Tavernier is denied by Lammens.
57 min Bournemouth have been the better side since half-time, taking five shots to United’s one.
56 min Bournemouth again, bustling down their left. All Adli has to do is cross – which he does, into the crowd.
55 min Bournemouth get a few touches in the box and the ball breaks for Jimenez, who has a shot that goes wide.
54 min Dalot plays a simple pass straight to a red-and-black shirt, but Yoro bails him out with a sliding tackle. A camera finds Mason Mount warming up.
52 min Fernandes lofts the ball into a crowd of tall men with sharp elbows. It has to be a free kick and Stuart Atwell gives it to Bournemouth.
51 min It’s just one counter after another. Now Uniterd break and Shaw, on the overlap, wins a corner.
50 min As the ball bobbles about above the United box, Lammens puts in a very punchy punch.
49 min Truffert troubles the United defenders, only to find Maguire tidying up. As United counter, Cunha is outrun by Jimenez; over on the other side, as if seen in a giant mirror, Dalot does the same thing to Adli.
47 min End to end! Cunha drives down the left and plays a through ball to Mbeumo, who can’t find Amad with his cross. Petrovic starts a counter which finishes with Christie becoming the latest player to blaze over the bar.
In the studio, Andy Cole is asked what it will take to break this deadlock. “A little bit of magic.”
It was a half of two halves. United were on top for the first one, getting 62pc of the possession and piling up the shots. But Djordje Petrovic coped with them and then Bournemouth grew into the game, showing their pace and testing Lammens. In terms of shots it’s 11-4 to United, but for shots on target it’s only 4-3.
This is shaping as a good night to be Brazilian. Cunha has been the best player on the pitch, and Rayan and Evanilson have been dangerous too.
HALF-TIME! Bournemouth 0-0 Man United
It’s been a lot more fun than it looks.
45+1 min Bournemouth see off the danger and sprint upfield. Then they slow down, much to the understandable chagrin of the crowd.
45+1 min This will be the only minute of added time.
45 min United play some more neat passes and win yet another corner.
44 min Adli beats Dalot down the left but sends his low cross into the arms of Lammens. Both goalies have been very switched on.
42 min United play their way out of trouble with some quick short passes, only for Mbeumo to lose the ball with a stray first touch. He’s been out of sorts lately.
40 min Save! The free kick is well struck by Tavernier, curling it towards the corner, but Lammens saw it coming. He’s a keeper.
38 min Carrick has a conference with his experienced assistant, Steve Holland. And Bournemouth have a free kick in a dangerous position near the D.
36 min Save! By Lammens at the other end. I was too busy typing the previous post to see whose shot it was. We’ve had 15 shots already, four to Bournemouth, 11 to United.
35 min Chances! Two of them, both to Fernandes. His first shot is blocked, then United come again and his second is saved by Petrovic despite being sweetly struck. Fernandes was on the left after swapping places with Cunha.
“You have to fancy United,” says Alan Smith, “to score.”
Photograph: Hannah McKay/Reuters
34 min James Hill’s long throw is a good one, but it too finds Maguire’s head.
