Mbeumo's opener isn't enough for Manchester United at Leeds
The club's brisk Elland Road highlights drew about 240,000 views in seven hours, with post-match reaction also attracting unusual attention.
Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 553,490 views a day, 18 times a normal first day on this channel (30,948).
Leeds 1-1 Man Utd | Highlights
Youri Tielemans gives Bryan Mbeumo two inviting deliveries. The first ends with a shot wide; the second puts Manchester United ahead at Elland Road.
That combination supplies the attacking centerpiece of "Leeds 1-1 Man Utd | Highlights", a fast-starting upload on the club's official channel. Its opening audience is already well beyond the usual first-day turnout for United's short videos.
The lead does not last. After halftime, Dominic Calvert-Lewin equalizes from a scramble inside the box, and the closing passages are about keeping Leeds out rather than finding another United goal. Senne Lammens gets a touch and Noussair Mazraoui gets in the way as the visitors protect their point.
The comments turn to United's starting lineup, the absence of a striker and the recurrence of drawn scorelines. The section is already several times busier than a typical full first day for the channel's short uploads.
There is attention beyond the match action, too. "Michael Carrick & Harry Maguire Post-Leeds United" is drawing viewers much faster than United's usual longer upload, while the club has also posted Carrick's separate press conference and a standalone clip of Mbeumo's goal.
Published on Trari
Where next?
What viewers say
Ive been a fan for like 14 years already and I do not usually comment anything on internet, but it's really upsetting espcially nowadays when we had a chance that things would change after the last season
@deth.9217See it on YouTube
Public comments from the video's page on YouTube
- Channel
- Manchester United
- Subscribers
- 11,600,000
- Channel views, last 7 days
- 9,778,475
- Channel views, pace per day
- 986,751 (on a normal day: 1,336,421)
- Video published
- October 18, 2026
- Video views so far
- 240,008 (less than a day online)
- Video views, pace per day
- 553,490
The numbers
The match highlights and the Carrick-Maguire reaction are both drawing unusually large opening audiences for their respective formats.
💡 Test your knowledge
Which country does Bryan Mbeumo represent internationally?
Mbeumo represents Cameroon at senior international level.



