As Crystal Palace won 2-0 at Old Trafford on Sunday, Manchester United suffered yet another miserable home defeat, while Tottenham put a stop to Ange Postecoglou by beating Brentford 2-0.
With both goals in the second half, Jean Philippe-Mateta gave Palace their fifth straight defeat away from home.
As Oliver Glasner’s side climbs to 12th place, Victory elevates the Eagles above the Red Devils in the table.
After another defensively weak and uninspired home display, United had three straight victories that had boosted the atmosphere at Old Trafford, but Ruben Amorim was back at square one.
Rasmus Hojlund and Joshua Zirkzee were both benched, which reversed Amorim’s decision to start without a natural striker.
Kobbie Mainoo made his debut in the center-forward role after conceding a goal against Romanian side FCSB with a 2-0 win in midweek.
United’s best effort was a bright opening, but their attacking threat ran out as a result of the England international’s scuffed strike coming back off the post.
After a disappointing start to the season, Palace have only lost one of their last seven league games.
Due to an injury that limited Eberechi Eze’s ability to make a cameo appearance off the bench, the visitors missed his creative spark for the first hour.
However, Eze made an immediate impact when Mateta’s header from his free kick, Maxence Lacroix, sailed backwards.
For United, the worst was coming as a result, with Lisandro Martinez having an apparent knee injury that required stretchering off.
When Daniel Munoz volleyed in from the middle of Mateta’s defense and unselfishly squared for the home side to score his sixth goal in five games, Palace had no mercy to give up the final three points.
Spurs lessen fears of relegation.
Spurs eased fears they could be dragged into a relegation battle as Postecoglou’s injury-ravaged side kept a rare clean sheet to see off Brentford.
With Micky van de Ven and Cristian Romero both missing, the Bees were left to regret a number of misplaced chances against Tottenham’s home defense.
With the opening goal, Brentford also offered a helping hand to the visitors.
On 29 minutes, Vitaly Janelt headed into Son Heung-min’s own net after Hakon Valdimarsson snuck into his corner.
Yoane Wissa’s header came off the bar as Brentford pushed for an equaliser.
But Spurs picked them off on the counter-attack when Pape Sarr prodded through Valdimarsson’s legs from Son’s pass.
Tottenham moves up to 14th place and is now 10 points clear of the drop zone with a victory.
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