Mbeumo and Cunha mask Man Utd flaws

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FREE TO WATCH: Highlights from Manchester United's match against Brighton in the Premier League.

Only Manchester United can comprehensively beat a team while simultaneously seeming like they survived a major scare. This was definitely a banana skin moment. United's recent record against Brighton is woeful and it's a fixture that always throws up drama. This latest instalment trended similarly.

Just when United draw you in, Old Trafford bouncing with unbridled glee at being 2-0 up, they drop you like a sack of bricks. It was easy to be charmed by the first-half performance but the second proved this United side are far from flawless. How can they make things look so easy and so hard all at the same time? It's an art.

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