Bruno rolled the kickoff back to Casemiro, and Brentford's trap sprang exactly the way Friday's tactical session had warned it would.
Mbeumo curved his run in from Casemiro's right, using his body to cut off the pass back toward Maguire, while Wissa closed from the opposite side and Nørgaard hung a few yards behind them both, waiting for the forced ball that had to come through Demien.
Casemiro recognized the trigger before it fully closed and refused to turn, returning the ball to Evans instead while Mbeumo was still a stride away.
Demien had already drifted clear of Nørgaard rather than sitting on Casemiro's line, so when Evans found Dalot and Dalot played it into him, he returned it first time before Nørgaard could arrive from behind, then accelerated around the midfielder and took Dalot's second pass facing Brentford's goal.
「LEGENDARY TECHNIQUE ACTIVATED」 「Andrea Pirlo — Deep-Lying Playmaker」 「MATCH MISSION PROGRESS」 「Line-Breaking Actions: 1/6」
