{"id":455212,"date":"2023-08-15T01:16:32","date_gmt":"2023-08-14T21:16:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=455212"},"modified":"2023-08-15T01:18:21","modified_gmt":"2023-08-14T21:18:21","slug":"sloppy-united-start-pl-season-with-difficult-1-0-win-over-wolves","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/sloppy-united-start-pl-season-with-difficult-1-0-win-over-wolves\/","title":{"rendered":"Sloppy United start PL season with difficult 1-0 win over Wolves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Manchester United were put to the sword in their opening game of the 2023\/24 campaign against Wolverhampton at Old Trafford on Monday night.<\/p>\n<p>The Red Devils secured a narrow 1-0 win, but it was the Wolves, who were the dominant force, especially in the second half.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Up and running in 2023\/24! \ud83d\udcaa<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/MUFC?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#MUFC<\/a> || <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/MUNWOL?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#MUNWOL<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Manchester United (@ManUtd) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ManUtd\/status\/1691192619018207232?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">August 14, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>A late strike in the 76th minute by Raphael Varane from a beautifully chipped cross by Aaron Wan-Bissaka was enough to give the home side the edge and to secure the 3 points on the opening day of the season.<\/p>\n<p>But it was all but smooth sailing for Erik Ten Hag&#8217;s men, as the away side proved to be more resilient, more creative and only the lack of finishing touch disabled them from finding the back of the net.<\/p>\n<p>New signing Andre Onana was excellent and he had to be as there was an avalanche of shots he had to parry in order to keep his team&#8217;s advantage.<\/p>\n<p>Mason Mount also made his Old Trafford debut, but his performance, much like the whole of United&#8217;s team, was rather sloppy and unimpressive.<\/p>\n<p>United face Tottenham next Saturday in a crunch clash, where Erik Ten Hag will be looking to improve on significantly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Manchester United were put to the sword in their opening game of the 2023\/24 campaign against Wolverhampton at Old Trafford on Monday night. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4224,"featured_media":455213,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16789,18201,18217,20573],"news_category":[136,14235,16715],"gn_keywords":[17559,18985,19341,456],"acf":{"announce":"The Red Devils had to dig deep to secure the 3 points against the run of play","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/455212"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4224"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=455212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/455212\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/455213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=455212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=455212"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=455212"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=455212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}