Manchester United rue Luke Shaw's mad handball in last-gasp defeat at Brighton

Luke Shaw handling the ball gave Brighton a crucial late penalty, from which they scored the winner

By Sam Dean, at the Amex Stadium

Are Manchester Joined a power reawakened? That appears to have been the looking about the club for quite a bit of this season, yet it will be hard for rival groups to act over the top with them until they figure out how to endure evenings like this, against interesting adversaries, away from the natural solaces of Old Trafford.

There was no fear from Brighton in this gathering with Erik ten Witch's side, and no feeling that a supposed more modest group was playing against a purported footballing goliath. Rather it was Joined's players who appeared to have dread in their eyes. Particularly toward the end, when Brighton amassed around them and one point unexpectedly turned out to be none.

The 10,000 foot view concern is that this exhausting misfortune, got by Alexis Macintosh Allister's 99th-minute punishment, was essentially the most recent in a long queue of miserable away counterparts for Joined against daring rivals. In eight away apparatuses against groups as of now in the best nine of the Chief Association, they have taken just a single point.

The other, more prompt concern is what this loss - their third in succession to Brighton in the association - could mean for their situation in the table. Liverpool are approaching in the race for the main four and, albeit Joined have an important lead with one game close by, they should now be investigating their shoulders. This is a chance to proceed cautiously for sure, particularly with Jürgen Klopp's side on a five-game dominating run.