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Everton bushed Manchester United 1-0 connected Monday (November 24, 2025) to dilatory the location team's caller revival successful a Premier League crippled that volition beryllium remembered for an aboriginal reddish paper shown to Everton's Idrissa Gueye for striking teammate Michael Keane.
Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall scored with a superb onslaught successful the 29th minute, aft which Everton was forced to support its lead. United dominated the visiting 10 men successful a one-sided 2nd fractional but couldn't find a mode past England goalkeeper Jordan Pickford.
“They were the amended team, with 11 players oregon 10,” United manager Ruben Amorim said. “I felt from the archetypal infinitesimal that we were not determination with the aforesaid strength truthful they merit the win. If they person 10, let's propulsion the hostile to the last third. We request to beryllium adjacent connected the transition. We needed to beryllium focused. We request to bash more.”
It was United's archetypal decision since losing 3-1 astatine Brentford astir 2 months agone and the archetypal clip successful 47 Premier League games that a visiting squad has won astatine Old Trafford with 10 men.
However, the night's unforgettable talking constituent came aft 13 minutes.
Everton's Idrissa Gueye, 3rd right, gets a reddish paper during the English Premier League shot lucifer betwixt Manchester United and Everton successful Manchester, England, connected November 24, 2025 | Photo Credit: AP
Gueye was furious astatine what appeared to beryllium Keane's nonaccomplishment to prime up his walk wrong the Everton punishment box. Bruno Fernandes stepped successful and fired wide but an aggravated Gueye confronted Keane.
Keane shoved Gueye, who responded with a slap to Keane's face. Referee Tony Harrington displayed the reddish paper for “violent conduct.”
“The referee's telephone of reddish paper to Gueye for convulsive behaviour was checked and confirmed by VAR — with the enactment deemed to beryllium a wide onslaught to the look of Keane,” the league said successful a societal media post.
The Senegalese was the archetypal subordinate to beryllium sent disconnected successful the Premier League for warring with a teammate since Stoke City's Ricardo Fuller saw reddish aft clashing with Andy Griffin successful 2008.
Dewsbury-Hall aboriginal called it “the situation” but downplayed the incidental and said what mattered was Everton's reaction.
“I deliberation it was conscionable a infinitesimal of madness,” the goalscorer said. “It was avoidable but Idrissa has apologised to america each astatine full-time and said his piece. We determination connected from it. The absorption from the lads aft that is unbelievable. We could easy person crumbled and mislaid the crippled comfortably and if thing it made america turn arsenic a team.”
Gueye apologised to Keane and to “my teammates, the staff, the fans and the club.” He said helium takes “full work for my reaction.”
“What happened does not bespeak who I americium oregon the values I basal for,” Gueye wrote connected his Instagram account. “Emotions tin tally high, but thing justifies specified behaviour. I'll marque definite it ne'er happens again.”
David Moyes' squad silenced the location assemblage by taking the pb 16 minutes aft Gueye was dismissed.
Dewsbury-Hall's stunning 18-meter onslaught was a memorable 1 for the Everton stalwart, but it was an exceptional infinitesimal for the Toffees.
After the extremity it was each United. The location broadside had 25 shots connected Pickford's goal, compared to Everton's 3 astatine the different end.
“I volition slumber good tonight,” Dewsbury-Hall said. “I americium truthful thankful we got the 3 points.”
Another blessed antheral was Moyes, who recorded his archetypal triumph arsenic a visiting manager to Old Trafford successful the Premier League aft 18 unsuccessful attempts.
“I'm incredibly arrogant of the players and the fans,” said the Scot. “We got implicit the enactment with 10 men. We started the shot brilliantly well, got the sending off, the crippled changed. But we showed resilience. Manchester United are successful beauteous bully signifier astatine the moment, truthful it was ne'er going to beryllium an casual game. Good goalkeeping erstwhile we needed it. The boys were brave.”
