Manchester United drew 4-4 with Bournemouth.
Bruno Fernandes (right) scored a real dream goal. EPA / AOP
Manchester United have never lost a Premier League game at home if they have led at half-time.
There are now a total of 326 matches behind them, of which United have won exactly 300, 26 have ended in a draw, and the red shirts have not yet suffered their first defeat.
On Monday, it was frighteningly close, because Bournemouth turned a 1-2 deficit at the break into a 3-2 lead with two lightning goals in the second period.
The captain became United’s savior Bruno Fernandeswho shot the season’s best goal right in front of the Cherries by Đorđe Petrović to the upper corner of the guard’s goal.
It wasn’t the last hit of the night either, because only a few minutes later Matheus Cunha enjoyed the hosts’ 4–3 lead.
However, the goal celebration ended with the Frenchman sharing the points That is Junior Kroupin after finishing 4-4-ending numbers.
In extra time given by the referee, United’s goalkeeper Senne Lammens saved the home team with a wonderful foot save. Without it Bournemouth David Brooks would have sunk his butt and caused United’s more than 40-year home spell to be broken.
The last time Manchester United lost a league match at Old Trafford, which they led at half-time, you have to go back to May 1984. That was when Ipswich turned a chasing position into a 2-1 away win.
At that time, the old first division was still played. The Premier League started in the fall of 1992.